Sentence examples for taking freight from inspiring English sources

Taking freight and passenger traffic together, China already has the world's busiest railroad system.

Still, there is less flexibility in train scheduling, and a track only goes so far — it cannot take freight directly to the doorstep.

They were taking the freight elevator to the roof, where firefighters pulled them to the roof of an adjacent building.

He came and went by way of the underground parking garage, taking a freight elevator to the same 45th floor suite that Bill and Hillary Clinton shared three years ago.

Horse acknowledged the upstairs-downstairs dynamic: "I'm, like, a young white guy, so it's not really a problem for me, but did you notice we're taking mostly freight elevators?" Worst part of the job?

"The truck was taking its freight from A to B and did not stop.

In 1983, the station was finally closed when Conrail and the newly formed Metro-North Railroad announced that the new stations along the Erie's former high speed freight line, the Graham Line, would take over freight and passenger service.

Both writers make sex take the freight of a larger vision of life.

Trucks are the real competition, and anything that takes more freight off the highways and on to the safer and more environmentally friendly tracks is welcome.

"The units will retain the character of traditional SoHo lofts," he said, "but you won't have to take a freight elevator to get to them".

The great blues musician Muddy Waters captured the feeling with a lyric about being so tired and lonely he "took a freight train to be my friend".