piggyback service

Trains 1.5 km long would carry up to 80 lorry trailers each, in the manner of American piggyback services.

Containers later replaced most piggyback service.

Intermodal piggyback service started winding down in 1982 and was eventually phased out four years later due to deregulation within the railroad industry.

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Circus loading: Loading trailers on flatcars sequentially from the end; the standard method of loading in early piggyback service.

Long before modern piggyback services, the LIRR began carrying farm wagons aboard flatcars in 1885.

In 1982 it bought several Conrail lines in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and began operating coal trains and piggyback service.

It once used a ramp for piggyback service, whose main customer was a local moving company; the ramp was literally the end of the line, adjacent to a city street.

An improvisational piggyback service from Göschenen to Airolo was offered during the two months closure of the Gotthard Road Tunnel in 2001.

A company offering the piggybacking service maintains a network of creditworthy "card holders" or "vendors", those stand by ready to add strangers to their accounts as authorized users for a fee.

CPR's premier piggyback service, the Expressway originally was sited at West Toronto, but was relocated to Hornby when volume grew too large.

It inaugurated piggyback service in 1938 and dieselized many of its mainline trains with a fleet of ALCO DL-109s.

Guilford Rail System used the name East Wind in 1995 for a through piggyback service of semi-trailers on flatcars between Springfield, Massachusetts and Bangor, Maine.

Until the opening of the Gotthard Road Tunnel, the Swiss Federal Railways offered piggyback services for cars and trucks through the Gotthard Tunnel.

However, a highly important innovation was the so-called '"Piggyback Service"', the forerunner of modern intermodal freight transport, which the Great Western introduced in 1936 by moving several hundred truck trailers on specially modified flat cars.

The piggyback traffic disappeared as the railroads serving New York initiated their own piggyback service and found that trailers could move into NH's territory by highway, especially the newly completed Connecticut Turnpike that paralleled NH from Greenwich to New London.

New efforts to improve the rail freight loadings were met with stiff competition from a barge-to-rail service (Puget Sound Freight Lines) and Piggyback services to the main-line rail carriers (Union Pacific and Burlington Northern) proved overwhelming to the highly leveraged new company.

So far, Hunt has concentrated on the very long trips where railroads, by improving their piggyback service, have been picking up business Next month, however, Hunt, in combination with Conrail, will take on the heart of trucking: trips of between 700 to 1,000 miles, which make up the largest portion of moves.