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 v.β€” Β«Closing the deal also would enable CSX to accelerate bridge and rail-bed work to allow passage of double-stacked container-freight trains between Boston and the New York state line. That would mean significant savings for CSX, which now has to remove the top tier of containers from double-stacked trainsβ€”β€œfilet” them, in railroad argotβ€”so they can pass under bridges built long before the container-freight era.Β» β€”β€œLet’s make a deal” Worcester Telegram & Gazette News (Massachusetts) Apr. 16, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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