Sentence examples for freight back from inspiring English sources

Poor weather and sea conditions kept the Annie in Iceland until February 1921, when Worsley was able to carry freight back to Britain.

In that same year he invented a device for placing derailed freight cars back on their tracks.

While researching his first book he rode on freight trains back and forth across the western United States with some of the country's last remaining hoboes.

Credit: Justin Tereveen Dallas, TX Underground rail and freight tunnels Back in the roaring '20s, these rail tunnels were used to conveniently transport merchandise between the Santa Fe Freight Terminal and the Fashion District.

Surratt's guidance and Brown's motivational skills "could make a puppy pull a freight train," defensive back Lee Scott Herron said.

Most of my fellow passengers seem to be tourists - nostalgic for the old Kenya - a time of adventure and romance, but plans for revitalising or rebuilding the railway are more concerned with trying to win back freight than passengers.

And just like years back, freight trains regularly thundered past, punctuating the music with loud blasts from its horn.

They have 60 seconds to drop off several hundred pounds of cargo, take on new freight and get back in the air.

We used to wait for the freight elevator in the back.

They were forbidden to enter the offices by the normal staircase and had to use a freight elevator at the back.

I notice, for example, that the freight elevator at the back of the building went from manual to automatic in 1961, though I distinctly remember the quite elderly African-American woman, her hands gloved and her hair netted, who seven years after that was still turning a lever and closing a scissor-gate in the passenger car.