Sentence examples for freight rails from inspiring English sources

About three years ago, he said, the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, which is the chief economic development agency here, approached him about operating its freight railroad, which connects the city's port to CSX Transportation's web of freight rails.

The area also serves as a conduit for many of the exportable agricultural and industrial products produced both in the Pacific Northwest and in the vast, resource-rich northern Great Plains, linked to the region by highways and freight rails.

Compared to the widely electrified passenger rails, most freight rails are still lack of cost-effective access of electricity because of the long haul and remoteness of the geographic location.

The advantages of DMU are thought in this case to include the fact that it obviates the need for the installation of overhead power and the fact that with time segregation or perhaps advanced switching and scheduling it could be certified by the Federal Rail Administration FRAA) to run on freight rails, so the local rail workers' unions might sign on in support.

In the burst of reform pledges following the Chatsworth crash, freight rails joined with Metrolink in promising to launch the new satellite-linked safety system in the Los Angeles Basin in just four years.

But freight rail is not one of them.

Passenger and freight rail services are provided by the Kowloon-Canton Railway (in operation since 1910).

Coal still accounts for a third of the freight rail market.

But, outside Germany and Switzerland, Europe's freight rail services are a fragmented, lossmaking mess.

But you shouldn't overlook the enormous benefits that expanded freight rail service can also provide.

Freight rail companies have eliminated 538 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions since 1980.