Freight house

This article is about American structures. For British structures, see Goods shed.
This freight house has a typical arrangement of loading doors adjacent to the house track.
This freight house with a small agent's office in the near end of the structure has two doors for loading trucks.
This town has a small freight house in the background near the passenger depot in the right foreground.
Distance from the track made load transfer less convenient at this very small freight house left of the passenger depot.
This multipurpose building is a freight house on the left end and a passenger depot on the right end.

A freight house, in North America, is a building owned and operated by a railroad for receiving, loading, unloading, and temporary storage of less-than-car load (LCL) freight. Having a protected area for temporary freight storage improves efficiency by allowing railroads to accommodate customers' delivery and pickup schedules without leaving boxcars idle at loading points and destinations. A typical freight house has at least one trackside door with one or more doors for trucks or wagons to load and unload on the opposite side of the building.[1]

  1. ^ Henry, Robert Selph (1942). This Fascinating Railroad Business (first ed.). Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. pp. 137–139.