time freight
English
Noun
time freight (countable and uncountable, plural time freights)
- (rail transport, US, uncountable) freight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed time of delivery.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 14 (photo caption):
- No. 92 is drifting down into Burlington with time freight in 1946.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 14 (photo caption):
- (countable) a train carrying time freight.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 112 (photo caption):
- The Mike on Canadian Pacific time freight for the coast is given a helping hand west from Revelstoke to Clanwilliam, B.C., 8 miles, by Selkirk 5930.
- 2000, Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr. by H. Roger Grant, University of Iowa Press →ISBN [1]
- To expedite its time freights, the North Western had its famous Class H, or 4-8-4-type engines, built by Baldwin in 1929.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 112 (photo caption):
References
- “time freight”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.