Precision railroading
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Precision railroading or precision scheduled railroading is a concept in freight railroad operations pioneered by American railroad executive E. Hunter Harrison in 1993 and has since been adopted by n
Precision railroading attempts to minimize the number of times on each journey a freight car must be sorted in classification yards such as this one in Fort Worth, Texas.
Unit train
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A unit train, also called a block train or a trainload service, is a train in which all cars carry the same commodity and are shipped from the same origin to the same destination, without being split
Precision railroading
…Hunter Harrison in 1993 and has since been adopted by nearly every North American Class I railroad. It shifts the focus from older practices, such as unit trains, hub and spoke operations, and individual car switching at hump yards to emphasizing point-to-point freight car movements on simplified routing networks…
A Deutsche Bahn unit train working for Daimler AG between the factories at Sindelfingen and Bremen