Fast Freight Lines
Welcome to the PacificNG index for Fast Freight Lines.
Fast Freight Lines were the public face of interchange agreements for through-run interchange between railroads before car tracking was a reliable and trusted system. Groups of railroads negotiated contracts for designated routes over which member cars could be transported without "breaking bulk" or transloading freight from one company's car to another at the junction point as was the standard practice at the time.
Over time as free interchange and car tracking improved the purpose of Fast Freight Lines evolved from avoiding transloading to providing passenger-schedule shipping times to freight customers.
Fast Freight Lines typically had a pool of cars provided by its member railroads. While many narrow gauge railroads joined Fast Freight agreements, the search is still ongoing for evidence that narrow gauge railroads provided their own dedicated cars to the pool.
- Merchant's Despatch
- Red Line
- White Line
- Blue Line
- Green Line
- Yellow Line