time freight
time freight noun: freight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed delivery time.
Noun
time freight (countable and uncountable, plural time freights)
- Freight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed delivery time.
- 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)
- A train carrying time freight.
- 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 5930.1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 112 (photo caption)
- To expedite its time freights, the North Western had its famous Class H, or 4-8-4-type engines, built by Baldwin in 1929.2000, Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr., by H. Roger Grant, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN
Forms of time freight
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Questions about time freight
- What does time freight mean?
- Time freight means freight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed delivery time.
- What part of speech is time freight?
- Time freight is a noun.
- What is the plural of time freight?
- The plural of time freight is time freights.
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