time freight

time freight

English

Noun

time freight (countable and uncountable, plural time freights)

1. (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.

2. (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.

References

• “time freight” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.