time freight

plural time freights

1. USuncountablerail transportFreight for movement on regularly scheduled trains providing expedited service and a guaranteed delivery time.

   No. 92 is drifting down into Burlington with time freight in 1946.

   1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 14 (photo caption)

2. countableA train carrying time freight.

   To expedite its time freights, the North Western had its famous Class H, or 4-8-4-type engines, built by Baldwin in 1929.

   2000, Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr., by H. Roger Grant, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN

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   The Mike on Canadian Pacific time freight for the coast is given a helping hand west from Revelstoke to Clanwilliam, B.C., 8 miles, by Selkirk 5930.

   1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 112 (photo caption)