Freights

The earnings of the companies, that is, the freights, fares, etc., come from the people. ❋ Charles Harden (1896)

The whole central part of the State is penetrated by these roads and their branches, giving an outlet for any kind of freights direct to Norfolk, City Point, or Richmond. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Daniel Cat á n's operatic version, which is having its world premiere production at Los Angeles Opera, freights the tale with extra baggage. ❋ Heidi Waleson (2010)

And the cities, bright with lights, were as shops on these long streets — shops where business was transacted, where bunkers were replenished, cargoes taken or shifted, and orders received from the owners in London town to go elsewhere and beyond, ever along the long sea-lanes, seeking new cargoes here, carrying new cargoes there, running freights wherever shillings and pence beckoned and underwriters did not forbid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"My dearest wish is the success of Berande," Joan had just said, apropos of a discussion about the cheapening of freights on copra to market. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whether they rode the rails once or twice or hopped freights endlessly searching for jobs, the experience profoundly affected their lives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He spent his evenings poring over accounts, or making endless calculations based on cheaper freights for copra and on the possible maximum and minimum market prices for that staple of commerce. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Marie Antoinette watches in horror and does whatever she can to reverse his course, never accepting it as irreversible, not realizing that her love freights him down, often making him plunge all the faster and steeper. ❋ Carlos Eire (2010)

As the settlement did not merit regular direct rail service, he had reached his destination via a succession of freights, transferring from train to train in a series of desolate desert sidings. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

Only government can referee the relationship between the freights and the passenger entities and produce the legislation and funding to ensure cooperation. ❋ James McCommons (2010)

And while the freights prospered through deregulation and consolidation (there are now just seven major railroads), Amtrak has limped along, underfunded and unappreciated. ❋ James McCommons (2010)

Domestic miners say a windfall tax, along with already high railway freights, will hit their margins and make Indian exports even less competitive in the export market. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The freights, also known as the "host railroads", and Amtrak have had an uneasy, if not antagonistic, relationship since 1971 when Congress set up Amtrak to relieve the railroads of their money-losing passenger operations. ❋ James McCommons (2010)

That's what I would do if I was hopping freights nowadays. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When it uses the track owned by the freights the passenger cars can just sit for hours as they are second to the freights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The long-haul freights drop cars off there, then the local switcher takes them to the mill. ❋ Stephen Frey (2009)