Car spotting is a service in
rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a p ...
operations.
A 1920 book on railroad freight defines the term as follows:
[Edgar Watkins (1920) "Shippers and Carriers of Interstate and Intrastate Freight"]
p. 429
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Spotting service is the service beyond a reasonably convenient point of interchange between road haul or connecting carriers , industrial plant tracks and includes: (a) One placement of a loaded car which the road haul or connecting carrier has transported, or (b) The taking out of a loaded
car from a particular location in the plant for transportation by road haul or connecting carrier, (c) The handling of the empty car in the reverse direction.
See also
*Car spotting (positioning)
Car spotting is precise positioning of a railroad car for loading/unloading.
When a locomotive pulls a train of freight cars to a loading/unloading station, it approximately positions them with respect to freight handling equipment, since locomot ...
References
Rail transport operations
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