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Freight train
A freight train or goods train is a group of freight cars or goods wagons hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, ultimately transporting cargo between two points as part of the logistics chain...
Timeline of Events
1851
12.22.1851
The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1984
12.20.1984
The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
2010
2.19.2010
A student at Amador Valley High School commits suicide by jumping in front of a Union Pacific Railroad freight train traumatizing thousands.