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    A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers. Freight trains are...
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    freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is...
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  • Freight Train is the sixteenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on March 30, 2010. The album's first single...
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    connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often known simply as...
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    usually illegal. Illegally hopping a ride on a private freight car began with the invention of the train. In the United States, freighthopping became a common...
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  • "Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British...
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    The Viareggio derailment was the derailment and subsequent fire of a freight train carrying liquefied petroleum gas. It occurred on 29 June 2009 in a railway...
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    Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g...
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  • The Freight Train Riders of America (FTRA) is a national group who move about America by freight hopping ("catching out") in railroad cars, particularly...
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  • Look up freight train in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A freight train is a railway train that is used to carry cargo. Freight train may also refer...
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    A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 3, 2023, at 8:55 p.m. EST (UTC−5). The Norfolk Southern freight train was...
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  • Freight Train Heart is the third studio album by Australian rock singer, Jimmy Barnes, released in November 1987 in Australia by Mushroom Records and...
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  • – A passenger train collided with a freight train at Kot Lakhpat station, killing 11 and injuring 27. 2 December 1908 – Two mail trains collided at Barara...
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  • National Railway freight train and a Via Rail passenger train called the Super Continental, including the engine crews of both trains. It was the deadliest...
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  • "Freight Train Blues" is an early American hillbilly-style country music song written by John Lair. He wrote it for Red Foley, who recorded the song with...
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    tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, LeShuttle services for road vehicles and freight trains. It connects end-to-end with high-speed railway...
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  • Investigation into the Derailment of a Freight Train and the Subsequent Collision with a Travelling Post Office Train on 8 March 1996". The Railways Archive...
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    high-speed intermodal freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from 1968 to 1976. Dubbed the "World's Fastest Freight Train," the all-TOFC...
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    A road train, also known as a land train or long combination vehicle (LCV) is a semi-truck used to move road freight more efficiently than single-trailer...
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    (UK), bulk cement wagons Roll-block: a train designed to carry another railway train Slate wagon: specialized freight cars used to transport slate Stock car:...
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    dedicated freight corridors in India are a network of electric broad gauge freight railway lines that solely serve freight trains, thus making the freight service...
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    Old School Freight Train (OSFT) was a Charlottesville, Virginia-based band that combined bluegrass, jazz, Latin, and Celtic sounds to create their music...
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    deaths: a 1987 collision with freight locomotives in Maryland, a 1971 derailment in Illinois, a 1996 collision with a commuter train in Maryland, a 1999 grade...
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    Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT (23:22:23 UTC) on September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink...
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    length of a train may be measured in number of wagons (for bulk loads such as coal and iron ore) or in metres for general freight. Train lengths and loads...
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  • delivery of goods. Previous record of longest train on Indian railways was that of a 2.8 km long freight train named 'SeshNaag'. This was also operated by...
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    On 4 April 2023, a freight train and a passenger train collided with construction equipment obstructing the line at Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands...
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  • were injured after a Ferromex train struck a bus at a level crossing in Sonora. 29 January – Australia – A freight train derailed near Barnawartha, Victoria...
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    collision, involving the InterCity 62 (IC62) passenger train and an intermodal freight train, killed at least 57 people, with an official number of 342...
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  • CSX train, killing three people. April 18 – Indonesia – In Kosambi, three trains (a freight train, an animal transport train and a passenger train) collided...
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