RR Jargon

4. Due to weather conditions, excess tonnage of train, or engine trouble, the crew takes half the train over the hill, then returns and takes the other half over.
6. A publication setting forth rates or charges, together with governing rules and regulations.
7. A seven digit number used to describe a specific commodity (Acronym)
9. Persons or firm to whom shipment is designated.
11. Empty flat car
12. A 2 to 4 character code used commonly through the transportation industry to designate a railroad (e.g., UP for Union Pacific, BNSF for Burlington Northern Santa Fe) (Acronym)
13. (slang) To place a car in a designated position or specific location usually for loading or unloading such as at a warehouse door.
14. A charge made by one transportation line against another for the use of its cars. The charge is based on a fixed rate per day. (2 words)
16. An erosion of the permanent roadbed by storm or flood to such an extent as would cause delay of trains and endanger traffic.
19. A yard where car switching depends on locomotive power with little assistance from gravity (2 words)
20. An unloaded flat car used to protect overhanging loads or used between carrying cars loaded with long material.
21. Under ISS, an alternate version of a Revenue Waybill. By transmitting an ______, a carrier signals a dispute with another carrier’s version of the same waybill.

1. A term denoting that transportation charges have been or are to be paid at the point of shipment.
2. The property owned by a railroad over which tracks have been laid (3 words)
3. 1. Make-up of a freight train in terms of the car types 2. List of locomotive units, cars in train.
5. A change in the route of a shipment, or a change in the destination of the shipment.
6. (slang) Shift or hours of duty.
8. 1. Crew moving on trains without performing service from one terminal to another at railroad's convenience but for which they are paid. 2. Term given to any railroad employee traveling on a pass. 3. A locomotive hauled by another.
10. An association representing the common interests of railroads serving the United States, Canada and Mexico (acronym)
13. (slang) Engine with no cab or control compartment.
15. Between one or more railroads.
16. A depression or opening in a flat car to allow the load to extend below normal floor level.
17. The movement of cars from one place to another within a terminal, a yard, or an industry.
18. An employee assigned to a train when the engineer or driver of a track car is not qualified on the physical characteristics or rules of the railroad.
22. Specially equipped cars of different ownership’s assigned to a specific company or location.