railroad
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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
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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
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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
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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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