carloading
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]carloading (plural carloadings)
- (rail transport) The loading of a freight car.
- 1953, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration, A study of conditions affecting the transportation of grain by railroad:
- From 1940 to 1946, carloadings of grains ranged from about 28 to 35 percent of total shipments of products of agriculture.
- 1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
- In 1955, for example, 32 railroads reported 168,150 piggyback carloadings; in 1959 50 roads loaded 415,156 cars; [...]. T.O.F.C. still accounts for little more than 2 per cent of all U.S. carloadings but industry experts expect that percentage to reach between 25 and 50 per cent within the foreseeable future.