Intermodal: Shipments that are carried by more than one mode of transportation, mainly containers and piggyback trailers.
Intermodal Service
Freight moving via at least two different modes of transport. Intermodal service generally involves the shipment of containers and trailers by rail, truck, barge or ship.
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Intermodal
Shipments carried by more than one mode of transportation, mainly containers and piggyback trailers.
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Intermodal train moving empty intermodal equipment.
Beneficial Owner
Person or legal entity who owns or has title to the freight being transported.
Intermodal Shipments combining more than one method of transportation, such as carrying tracter-trailers on the rails, and then switching them to ships, and then back to the trucks.
Interurban Self-propelled trains in cities, such as a trolley.
Intermodal
Refers to activities involving more than one mode of transportation. With respect to freight traffic, it is most often used for the carriage of highway trailers (TOFC) or containers on flat cars (COFC).
Intermodal service characterized by shipping containers that are stacked two-high on railcars.
Double-header
A train pulled by two locomotives, each with its own crew.
Intermodal
An inter-mixing of non-rail transportation equipment such as highway truck trailers and overseas shipping containers on railcars-often called "Piggyback" service.
Some intermodal trains carry a block of cars that will be set out at a location to become yet another train.
A train of intermodal trailers on flat cars. Also see TOFC
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Intermodal Freight traffic that refers to containerization of freight for easy transloading to different modes of transportation. See TOFC,COFC, Piggyback. Iron Bender A switchman.
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Referred to in intermodal traffic. Color Light Signal A fixed signal in which the indications are given by the color of a light only.
ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (Federal USA, 1991). Isolator See Section Isolator.
Refers to intermodal shipments. Tons per Operative Brake Gross trailing tonnage of the train divided by the total number of cars having operative brakes.
TOFC: An abbreviation for "Trailer-On-Flat-Car" (Intermodal freight transport).
Token: A physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single track.
Intermodal
RAILWAYS. A term used in the USA, and possibly some other countries, to refer to the shipping of goods in standardised cargo containers that can be easily transferred between rail, road truck and sea without repacking.
Most containers are designed to be carried by rail, truck and water (intermodal).
container car — a car used to carry intermodal containers.
TOFC - A trailer on a flatcar system of intermodal transport on which truck trailers are carried.
Token - Authority for train to enter single line section. Of different forms including wooden staff, electric staff, tablet, key token.
Intermodal Descriptive term for freight traffic involving transfer of containers to and from road and rail vehicles. Sometimes referred to as container traffic.
Railroad Atlas of North America "Covering rail in North America with current color maps, this volume - the only rail atlas showing the U.S., Canada and Mexico - has now been expanded to include all recent mergers, mileages, intermodal and port ...
Industrial railroading is a place where operating accessories can strut their stuff. Barrel loaders and similar fare are right at home here. You can include trucking, piggyback loads, intermodals and everything from tank farms to grain elevators.
 See also: Track, Engine, Train, Car, Point
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