The use of more than one mode of transportation to ship goods or commodities from an origin to a destination.  In a truck/rail transload, the shipment is initially loaded on a truck, taken to a rail d [..]

A railroad customer’s physical ability to place freight on a railroad; also a rail customer’s ability to receive “service” from a railroad. (See also “commercial access,” “open access” and “terminal a [..]

The “captive” portion of an otherwise competitive rail movement.

When a “captive” rail customer creates “rail-to-rail competition” by building a new rail line out to a second railroad.  A “build-in” occurs when a railroad builds a new line to reach one or more rail [..]

When railroad serves a customer at multiple locations, with at least one location “captive,” the railroad sometimes quotes very high rates at the captive location.  Then, the railroad may offer to red [..]

A railroad with at least $250 million in operating revenue in 1991 dollars.  Affiliated railroads may report separately but be operated as a single “system” under common control.  The seven Class I ra [..]

The rail customer’s total cost for rail transportation, including:

A charge levied by railroads for the use or retention of railcars, generally beyond a minimum “free time” for which there is no charge.   Department Of Transportation (“DOT”)

A rulemaking by the STB that eliminated “product” and “geographic” competition from the “market dominance” guidelines in rate cases.

An interchange point between railroads.