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Noun
time freight (countable and uncountable, plural time freights)
- (rail transport, US, uncountable) freight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed time of delivery.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 14 (photo caption):
No. 92 is drifting down into Burlington with time freight in 1946.
- (countable) a train carrying time freight.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 112 (photo caption):
The Mike on Canadian Pacific time freight for the coast is given a helping hand west from Revelstoke to Clanwilliam, B.C., 8 miles, by Selkirk 5930.
2000, Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr., by H. Roger Grant, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN:To expedite its time freights, the North Western had its famous Class H, or 4-8-4-type engines, built by Baldwin in 1929.
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