Freight Mugs
Description: Known throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic for their iconic orange and white trucks, Preston Trucking Co. was founded in 1932 in Chesapeake Bay. The company was started by a canned goods wholesaler who had difficulty moving their product in less than truckload quantities, and their accountant suggested the company start its own trucking division. Initially, the company focused on small, irregular loads. These loads would later be known as less-than-truckload, which would be the model for what would come to be known as LTL trucking. Preston would go on to grow and expand, buying up many smaller carriers and by the late '90s, they had just over 5,000 employees, most of whom were drivers before suddenly folding in 1999, citing a lack of s
Description: Founded in Pocatello, Idaho in 1913 by Clarence Garrett as a luggage transfer service for railroad passengers, Garrett Freight Lines grew to become the fifth-largest freight carrier in the U.S. and a major employer in Pocatello for nearly seven decades. Garrett was purchased in 1977 by a private equity firm, and then sold to ANR, an oil and gas concern, in 1978. ANR purchased three trucking companies with authority to operate routes from coast-to-coast. ANR redesigned the familiar green-and-gold Garrett logo, replacing it with a multicolored U.S. map design, and moved the firm’s headquarters to Denver, but eventually divested its trucking businesses, leaving Garrett to be absorbed by other entities.
Description: The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads and operated between 1970 and 1996. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, a direct ancestor line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which lends Burlington to the names of various merger-produced successors. Burlington Northern acquired the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on December 31, 1996, to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (later renamed BNSF Railway), which was owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation.
Description: A bold and stylised illustration of the iconic Big Boy 4014, one of the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built. This artwork highlights the colossal engineering, rugged detailing, and unmistakable presence of this famous American rail giant. Perfect for: 🚆 Train lovers; railway enthusiasts 🇺🇸 Fans of American steam history 🔥 Collectors of locomotive art 🎨 Lovers of bold, stylised railway illustrations 🎁 Unique gifts for steam train fans Available on shirts, posters, stickers, mugs, notebooks, phone cases, and more. A striking tribute to one of the greatest steam locomotives in history.
Description: A lost corporate relic from a future imagined in 1990. Dumont Intermodal Shipping combines heavy freight machinery, global transit grids, container codes, and optimistic space-age corporate graphics into a worn logistics division emblem. Built with retro-futurist typography, technical markings, and distressed screen-print texture for fans of fictional corporations, vintage sci-fi workwear, and alternate-future industrial design.
