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Appendix 



Glossary 



Bunker charge — a charge for icing. 



Diversion — a change in routing instructions. 



Floatage — a carload lighterage movement usually between railroad terminals. 



Freight charge — the price paid for transporting the consignment from the ship- 

 ping point to the destination (rail). 



Freight rate — the price per unit for service; quoted by railroads usually in cents 

 per hundredweight. 



Lighterage — a terminal movement by water to complete a rail shipment. 



OfT-hne agent — a railroad representative who has his ofifice in a city not directly 

 served by his company. 



Reconsignment — a change in consignee. 



Routing guide — a tariff listing the combinations of carriers over which a shipment 

 may move under protection of the quoted rates. 



Tariff — a published schedule of the current charges, rules, regulations, etc., in 

 effect by railroads. 



Railroad Name Abbreviations 



B&A Boston and Albany 



B&M Boston and Maine 



B&O Baltimore and Ohio 



CCC&St.L Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis 



CRRNJ Central Railroad of New Jersey 



CSD A combination of roads through Pennsylvania 



CV Central Vermont 



D&H Delaware and Hudson 



DL&W Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 



Erie Erie Railroad 



MC Michigan Central 



NH New York, New Haven au'l Hartford 



NYC New York Central 



NYC&St.L (Nickel Plate 



(New York, Chicago and St. Louis 



PM Pere Marquette 



PRR Pennsylvania 



Wab. Wabash 



WS West Shore 



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