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Carload

A railroad car that can hold up to 40,000 pounds or 25,000 bushels of a commodity. Carloads can be important to commodity trading because some commodities are sold in such large quantities that one needs carloads to transport them to the approved delivery facility.

carload

In commodities trading, a railroad car or truckload of grain that ranges from 1,400 to 2,500 bushels.

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Intermodal and container traffic grew 6.4 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively, last spring from the year before, even as total freight carloads slid 3.48 percent.

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NS also moved entire divisions of Army bases as part of BRAC and will be participating in the transportation of more than 160 carloads of tanks, Humvees, and light vehicles from Fort Knox, KY, to Fort Benning, GA.

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Commodities showing carload gains in August included coal (up 6.3 percent to 715,844 carloads); metals and metal products (up 13.6 percent to 73,318 carloads); and grain (up 4.5 percent to 112,390 carloads).

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Their rage is targeted at hassled mothers trying to cope with carloads of screaming kids.

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Originally, it was feet, not inches, deep-the reason the Nazis transported carloads of it to Germany.

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rail traffic year-to-date was down 3.5 percent to 17.13 million carloads and intermodal units.

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Overall North American rail traffic fell 2.3 percent year-to-date to 22.6 million carloads and intermodal units.

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