Terminal railroad
A railroad whose business is not point-to-point transportation but rather pickup and delivery service for a connecting line-haul railroad. Switching and terminal companies usually receive a flat per-car amount for their services.
Terminal Railroad
Also called a Switching railroad. These railroads move freight in a limited area between shippers and a terminal where freight is transferred to long haul railroads.
Terminating line haul road ...
Louis' Terminal Railroad Association (TRRA) has operated the tracks along the Riverfront since they were first laid in 1885.
Terminal railroad (or terminal railway) is company in the United States that owns no cars of its own and transports only the railroad cars of other companies around a specific terminal station.[55] ...
As a result, Conrail was restructured into a switching and terminal railroad.
Consist
RAILWAYS. A train, usually without a locomotive. Any coupled set of carriages (passenger cars) and/or wagons (trucks, freight cars).
About ten miles out from downtown, the CGW used the tracks of the B&O Chicago Terminal Railroad for access to Grand Central Station. Once again, a variety of photos, timetables and advertisements add depth to the story told.
One extreme example is the Iowa Terminal Railroad. Only ten miles long, the small electrified railroad has a lease fleet of over 1,100 cars! Ironically, the Iowa Terminal does not have enough track to hold all its cars at once.
 See also: Track, Terminal, Switch, Point, Yard
  
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