It would have greatly simplified our problem if the company had concentrated on freight instead of passengers.
Anyway, they came up with something similar based on digitised human freight.
From then on only freight trains used the line.
However, in the 1930s, the B&O did away with passenger service and focused on freight.
Until the 1960s, there was little focus on long-distance freight between the major centres.
It initially used to concentrate on cotton and consolidated freight.
They soon began to focus on freight rather than passenger operations and were quite successful for many years.
In the earliest years of the line, the emphasis was on local freight, primarily agricultural products.
Upon entering service the class were used on heavy freight and express passenger trains.
And they've just about completed a second one on freight which will save two million dollars a year.