The decline of heavy industry in the area, the increasing size of freight-carrying ships, and competition from road transport, brought about the decline of the terminal docks at Salford, which closed in 1982.
"We dodged a bullet the size of a freight train," notes Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, an advocacy group in Washington.
The original home had been rebuilt and reborn as a majestic four-bedroom Colonial with a maple and granite gourmet kitchen and a walk-in closet upstairs about the size of a freight elevator.
At the time, he was living in an apartment in San Diego about the size of a freight elevator, just steps from the bustling boardwalk and raucous roller coaster on Mission Beach.
The total size of the freight brokerage market is $80 billion.
So in early January Altair also built its first pair of industrial 1-megawatt batteries each about the size of a freight car designed to store excess electricity produced at night.
But if you wanted to play Real Racing HD on your iPad for a month straight or drive your Tesla from Seattle to Miami on a single charge, you'd need a battery the size of a freight train.
At last the Blob, now the size of a freight car, attacks the Colonial Theater during a midnight Lugosi flick.
Every tanca--pasture--and every cork-oak plantation has at least one, often several, piles of stones, and each pile is the size of a large freight truck.
Geoff Moulton, Anglia Freight's managing director, says: "Joining Palletline transformed our business, giving us the ability to offer our customers total flexibility irrespective of the size of the consignment, or the location of the consignment".
