rails
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Farmers and manufacturers and ordinary Californians could hardly move freight or ride the rails without SP — and paid dearly for this monopoly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
When the railroad stocks crashed, nobody went and ripped up the rails and said, “Let’s go back to horses and carriages.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Our study shows that atomic-scale steps can act as effective rails that guide superconducting vortices, and that this guiding effect can be tuned simply by changing the temperature or magnetic field," said Uchihashi.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the Australian crashed in qualifying, jumped the start and then crashed out of the race on the first lap, and his season came off the rails after that.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Beyond that, rails were torn up and all except government travel banned.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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