Car spotting is a service in

rail transport Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

operations. A 1920 book on railroad freight defines the term as follows:Edgar Watkins (1920) "Shippers and Carriers of Interstate and Intrastate Freight"
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Spotting service is the service beyond a reasonably convenient point of interchange between road haul or connecting carriers , industrial plant tracks and includes: (a) One placement of a loaded car which the road haul or connecting carrier has transported, or (b) The taking out of a loaded car from a particular location in the plant for transportation by road haul or connecting carrier, (c) The handling of the empty car in the reverse direction.

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