A lift hill, or chain lift, is often the initial upward section of track on a typical roller coaster that initially transports the roller coaster train to an elevated point.

She then returned to the United States; and, in December, assumed the duties of an oiler and initially transported Navy special fuel and diesel fuel between U.S. West Coast ports.

The new pipeline would initially transport 250,000 decatherms of gas a day, or enough to heat about 600,000 homes.

SpaceX also developed the Dragon spacecraft to be flown into orbit by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, initially transporting cargo and later planned to carry humans.

The railway initially transported passengers along North Centre Street to Narrows Park for a fare of five cents.

Carriers initially transported the mail by foot and on horseback, moving to stagecoaches, rail, cars and trucks - and ultimately to airplanes.

The various Guppy aircraft served throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond, initially transporting space components, and later, as NASA scaled down its operations after the success of the Apollo program, transporting airliner sections.

The boats initially transported coal upriver and scrap metal down and then expanded into carrying grain.

On 15 October of that year, revenue flights were launched, initially transporting passengers and mail from St. Petersburg to a few destinations within Florida using a fleet of two Ryan ST monoplanes.

The steamer, owned by Davis, Brooks and Company, initially transported passengers on the New York-New Orleans route.