The freight trains are typically local freights, empty baretable and autorack trains. CSX retained freight rights over the line, which hosts only five freights a day. Like passenger service generally, way freights and their smaller consignments became uneconomical. A Class locomotives on coal trains, timed freights, fast freights, and merchandise freights. Truckload is used for larger shipments of freights. For westbound freights, the challenge was keeping trains from going too fast. They were thus relegated to shunting and local trip freights. Good roads and trucking have replaced way freights in most parts of the world. Freights by road and rail pass through here. Norfolk Southern continues to operate local freights on the lines. We went from L.A. up to Oakland on the freights. The traffic on the Gateway Subdivision are general merchandise freights. And they're not hoppin' freights much anymore. No freights currently operate regularly at weekends. Some shunt turns would have included trips between yards (known as transfer freights).