Showing posts with label freight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freight. Show all posts
UPS Trains
All the major railroads carry freight for the United Parcel Service (UPS), a lot of freight, especially during the Christmas shopping season. UPS trains are given a high priority, often forcing other trains onto sidings to let them pass. The railroad with the best on-time UPS performance gets bragging rights through the next Christmas season. The cargo is carried in trailers on flat cars (tofc). UPS calls the trailers "feeders," they call the brown trucks that deliver to your house "package cars."
Norfolk Southern 62A: The tractor train
Norfolk Southern's 62a (AKA the "tractor train" or the "John Deere train") is a popular target for RR photographers. It carries John Deere, Case, and New Holland equipment, often on a long picturesque string of identical cars, to Baltimore for export. By the time it gets to my neck of the woods (Maryland), it's always night.
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