LCL"Less than carload lots of freight
LETTERS"Service letters given to men who resign or are discharged. Applicants for railroad jobs are usually asked to present letters proving previous employment.
LCL
Less than Carload Lot, any shipment of freight too small to fill a car.
Lead Track ...
From early "LCL" boxes to modern double-stacks, containers are an important part of transportation across many modes.
3. Roadrailers
These innovative trailers use no flatcar at all.
LCL Less Than Carload Lots. Brakemen on local freight runs used to have to unload LCL merchandise at stations on their territories.
LCL
RAILWAYS. Less than carload. Freight traffic in volumes less than an entire goods wagon.
Le Shuttle
RAILWAYS. The Channel Tunnel service for cars and their drivers and passengers.
LCL - "Less- than-Carload-lot" Small shipments that do not requirq an entire car.
Lead Track - Trackage connecting a yard with the main line.
Level Crossing - Crossing of two railways, or a railway and road, on the same level.
(The passenger station is behind the spectator looking across the shelf.) A LCL car on every local freight will have business for the freight station. Sears Roebuck shipped sewing machines, wind mills and chick brooders by freight.
Less-Than-Carload (LCL) - Freight shipments that are smaller than the volume of a full car load.
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1. A box car from which LCL shipments are loaded and unloaded at various towns.
2. See Caboose.
Wayside Signal
A fixed signal located along the track right of way. See Fixed Signal.
- Mine Runs(also called shifters) - Local freights that serve mine branches, exchanging empties for loaded cars, also carrying LCL (less-than-carload-lot) mine supplies and other freight occasionally.
Unit trains are examples of captive equipment, which travel between two locations in dedicated service. LCL (less than carload) traffic was once handled by way cars, ...
Does most ground work, collects tickets and 'bo money, unloads LCL, occasionally fires/runs engine, but never gets credit for anything extra.
 See also: Switch, Track, Engine, Car, Operation
  
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