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BTW, the advent of "unit trains" is not a relatively recent phenomena. A P.F.E. (Pacific Fruit Express) 'reefer block' was a unit train, often consisting of a hundred cars or more... all decked out in PFE SP/UP (jointly owned) reefer orange... and reefer blocks were run from late in the 19th century. The SP also ran their one-time famous "Overnight" express trains on the coastline back in the 1930s between L..A.. and S.F., all painted black or silver cars heralded as such in the consist but consisting of drygoods transport rather than perishables. Both of these were types of unit trains, though the vernacular of the times didn't know of the 'word' as we use it today. There were, of course, other examples, too, from other roads. :)
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