It would allow the shipping of heavy and bulky freight where the railroad could not.
However it remains in many places, especially on heavy freight, express routes and night trains.
They replaced class M 2-6-0s for the heaviest freight service beginning in 1896.
Questions of national identity, race and tolerance bear heavy freight.
Though the image of older people has improved somewhat in recent years, being old still carries heavy social and economic freight.
It was a few minutes, though, before a long, heavy freight came slowly puffing through.
Increasing damage to the steel structure required heavy freight to avoid the bridge.
Throw in a lunar rover and this is heavy freight indeed, on the order of 100 tons.
The wheels were small, and thus adapted to heavy freight or slow passenger services at low speed.
Upon entering service the class were used on heavy freight and express passenger trains.