Incentive per diem: This was a setup created in the 1970s whereby the industry pushed railroads to buy new freight cars with the enticement of payments for doing so. Soon after new freight cars popped on railroads large and small, particularly shortlines. However, the recession of 1978 and s...
lightweight train-set (a permanently coupled, invariable set of vehicles with inbuilt traction) enabled engineering of the infrastructure with gradients as steep as 3.5 percent, thereby minimizing earthwork costs, without detriment to maintenance of a 270-km- (168-mile-) per hour maximum speed. A...