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railroad

[reyl-rohd] / ˈreɪlˌroʊd /


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Last year, Mexican authorities seized millions of gallons of contraband fuel in scores of railroad cars and trucks near Mexico’s border with Texas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Mexican authorities have seized millions of gallons of contraband fuel in scores of railroad cars near the border with Texas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Within a few decades, railroad fortunes like those of Jay Gould, E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the largest in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

The companies also committed to grant access to another railroad at certain locations where railroad options would drop as a result of the merger.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

“I made the flight at a very low altitude, following the railroad tracks,” said pilot Zoya Parfyonova, who managed to find the right place.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Under the agreement, Canadian National would get track rights in Illinois and Missouri and acquire interests in two terminal railroads.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Debt has been used throughout history to build homes, highways and railroads, construct schools and mobilize for war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

One area benefiting from that search: Shares of the railroads, airlines and trucks moving the goods and supplies powering the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

In the 1880s, quarterly reporting by railroads and other transportation companies were common.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

They work together, along railroads and in the desert, taking turns tracking on foot and driving ahead in the Bronco, sometimes for days.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

I looked into those charges and concluded that they are unsupported, that Pangram isn’t reliable enough to serve as the basis for such accusations, and that there is a strong possibility Mia Ballard was railroaded.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Having stripped away most of the documentary’s narration and sit-down interviews with Kerr’s family and friends, the film barely explores anyone’s psychology — and Blunt’s railroaded Dawn loses her chance to speak for herself.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

Like other actors including Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, Julia Ormond, briefly a major star in the 1990s, has alleged in a lawsuit that Weinstein railroaded her career.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2024

But Mr Webber's mother Emma said the CPS had not consulted them, and said they had been "rushed, hastened and railroaded", while Mr Coates's son James said Calocane had "got away with murder".

From BBC Jan. 30, 2024

If I had been railroaded, the authorities would have known how I’d gotten it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But wage-earners—in textile manufacturing and railroading, to pick two examples—gained by the steady appreciation in the purchasing power of their hard-earned money.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Unlike Derry’s pubs, it welcomed everybody and also secretly provided a safe refuge for Hank as he hid from the cops intent on railroading him.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2025

“When the Mexican Revolution was going on, you had a lot of Mexican immigrants coming into these railroading hubs and centers like the Inland Empire, like San Bernardino,” Ocegueda said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2025

He called the administration’s action “an important step in making railroading safer in every state, rather than a piecemeal approach.”

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2024

They launched into a long discussion of their memories, both of railroading and of the Sierras.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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