Of the several dozen remaining city freight men, some work local routes for CSX, the biggest rail operator in the Eastern United States.
Every time six of them are disengaged the freight men drive them into an adjacent six-story warehouse which has 300,000 square feet of floor space and room for 1,700 cars.
In New York, an old freight elevator man, a small battered Irishman, whose one claim to immortality was an encounter with Fiorello LaGuardia, asked me, between floors, if I'd ever heard of a writer named Algren.
When Richmond's waterside warehouses held goods like tobacco, flour and coffee, they also quartered that most dismal of freight: enslaved men, women and children.
Realizing that their companies were not big enough on their own to handle this volume of freight, the three men joined forces on December 28 , 1854 to form Russell, Majors and Waddell, which successfully landed the contract.
After complaints that just one French officer was available to check in coaches on Friday night, port authorities said six booths – four for cars, one for coaches and one for freight traffic – were manned overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
Los Angeles Union Station is a beautiful art deco building from 1939 and unlike a lot of the venues we've been to along the route, this one is not just a passing post for freight and railway men, this station is the heart of L.A.s public transport grid and it's packed with people.
To promote Braniff Airway's freight division, he crammed a man into a shipping crate; upon arrival, the man emerged with not a hair out of place.
