Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, obtained by The Crimson last week from a concerned parent of a first-year resident of the building, said the asbestos is a "minimal" hazard, but found the cancercausing material in rooms, the freight elevator and two trash and laundry rooms on various floors of the apartment building...
...railroad people, from corporate towers to the yards, seem to have sniffed the new promise. Deloyt Young, manager of the world's largest freight yard, U.P.'s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, knows every inch of his eight-mile domain, a moving mosaic of thousands of cars and engines. It is hard by the old ranch where Buffalo Bill Cody assembled his Wild West show (complete with conquered Sioux Chief Sitting Bull) and sent it out on tour aboard U.P. trains. "I don't need an economist to tell me when things are good or bad," Young says...
...people these days dispute that rails are better for the environment. They give off only one-tenth to one-third the pollutants emitted by trucks. And the freight-rail's accident-fatality rate (per ton mile) is a third that of the trucking industry's. Virtually all the rail rights-of-way are owned and maintained by the railroads. The battered public highways used by trucks are constantly behind the maintenance curve...
Railroad talk is Brobdingnagian by nature. The lines bind every corner of America and are pushing increasingly into Mexico and Canada as trade builds. Those 12 top freight lines alone own 1,189,660 cars and 18,964 locomotives, which together could make a train that would stretch halfway around the globe...
Romance and profits return to the great freight railroads...