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The company was founded near Chase City, Virginia, by cotton farmer Webb Wallace ("W.W.") Estes (1897–1971). Estes started providing livestock moving services for local farmers in 1931 [4] with a used Chevrolet truck. By 1932 the trucking business was also hauling general freight and provided enough revenue for Estes to hire his first driver.
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. traces its origins to 1934 when husband and wife Earl Congdon Sr. and Lillian Congdon (née Herbert) founded the company with a single straight truck running between Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia. [7] [8] The name is a reference to a common nickname for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the "Old Dominion."
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This freight house has a typical arrangement of loading doors adjacent to the house track. This freight house with a small agent's office in the near end of the structure has two doors for loading trucks. This town has a small freight house in the background near the passenger depot in the right foreground. Distance from the track made load ...
The Oak Point Yard is a freight railroad yard located in Hunts Point, The Bronx, New York City.The yard is owned by CSX Transportation, and is a base for CSX's local deliveries in the area, including to the Hunts Point Cooperative Market and for trains that interchange freight with the New York and Atlantic Railway at Fresh Pond Junction in Queens.
Dispatch consoles used by Denver RTD, a transit service provider in a US city. Drawing at right illustrates the controls associated with a single channel on the console. Photos courtesy of US Department of Transportation. One method for organizing assignments in a manual dispatch system is to use a zone map system.
The Cotton Belt Freight Depot is a former freight depot of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2004 and named "Best Old Building" by the Riverfront Times, a weekly newspaper in St. Louis.