Sentence examples for freight railways from inspiring English sources

But America's freight railways are one of the unsung transport successes of the past 30 years.

It is that even this limited ambition risks messing up the successful freight railways.

Adding to the problem, most passenger trains run on track owned by freight railways.

In 2011 the seven largest freight railways had operating revenues of $67 billion (up from $47.8 billion in 2009).

Acela, like virtually all trains run by publicly owned Amtrak, has to use tracks belonging to freight railways, whose trains trundle along at 50mph; passenger trains must stick below 80mph.

Like its rivals, the port is "intermodal", meaning that it welcomes not just ships but also barges, trucks and, alone among American deepwater ports, six Class I freight railways.

Last July a new port terminal, linked to a freight railway to Russia, was launched.

In this paper we consider timetable design at a European freight railway operator.

A network of interstate and spur freight railway lines serves many parts of Montana, and an Amtrak passenger route crosses the northern part of the state.

There is a sign stating certain things you may not do on the High Line, Manhattan's celebrated, elevated pedestrian park that was once a freight railway.

Grain is moved into and out of the elevator by conveyor belts that run the length of the facility, which stands along a freight railway.