物流师考试综合辅导:铁路运输术语(Commonrailroadterms)
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Boxcar - an enclosed car used for general service
and especially for lading which must be protected
from weather.
Bulk transfer - the transfer of bulk products, such
as plastic pellets or liquid sweeteners, from one
mode of transportation to another. Bulk transfer permits
off-rail shippers and receivers of varied commodities to
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door-to-door delivery.
Capitalized costs - expenditures that have future benefit
and thus are recorded as assets.
Car utilization - ways to measure railcar productivity.
Among the measures are how much freight a car hauled and
how many trips it made in a specified period of time.
Carload - a shipment of not fewer than five tons of one
commodity.
Class I railroad - a railroad having operating revenues
of more than $256.4 million annually.
Conductor - the individual responsible for the safe and
proper management of the train.
Connecting carrier - a railroad with a physical connection
to another.
Container - a large, weatherproof box designed for shipping
freight in bulk by rail, truck or steamship.
Cycle time - the length of time consumed by a freight car
from one loading to the next.
Distribution center - the centrally located warehouse
where goods shipped long distances by rail are loaded
onto trucks for short-haul delivery to receivers, or
vice versa. Also called a reload center, it combines
the economies of rail with the flexibility of truck pickup
and delivery.
Double-stack containers - containers that can be stacked
atop one another on a flatcar.
End-of-train device (EOT) - a telemetry device, required
by federal law, that is installed at the rear of a train
to relay information to the locomotive engineer.
Engineer - the individual responsible for the movement
of the train.
Flatcar - an open car without sides or roof.
Gondola - a freight car with sides but without a roof.
Grade crossing - the point at which a roadway intersects
a rail line.
Gross ton-mile - the movement of the combined weight of
cars and their contents a distance of one mile.
Haulage rights - rights obtained by one railroad to
have its trains operated by another railroad over that
