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Union Pacific reached a deal with Canadian National Railway on Wednesday, giving the Montreal railroad further access in the Midwest in exchange for CN ending its opposition to the blockbuster merger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The railroad operator’s revenue rose 10%, driven by increased fuel surcharge revenue paired with higher volume and pricing across merchandise, intermodal and coal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Walking along the railroad tracks, she watched Simon Rodia build the Watts Towers’ 17 spires from rebar, shells, tiles, mirrors, soda bottles and cement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The Los Angeles-based corporation is also seeking to build a new pipeline along a railroad right-of-way to transport water to the south.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Mother was sent to work in a munitions factory while I cleaned latrines at the railroad station.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The pacts are part of CN Rail’s broader push to strengthen its north-south corridors and deepen partnerships with U.S. railroads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the scale of AI investment is now bigger than any nonwartime boom in history, including railroads and the dot-com bubble, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

“Just as railroads, electric grids, and the Internet reshaped prior economic eras, we believe SpaceX is building the foundational platform for the next generation of industrial capacity,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The railroads had made it known early and forcefully that they had no plans to discount their Chicago fares for the exposition.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

They also trusted the word of McBride, who has made a name for himself nationally as an outspoken — and controversial — advocate for officers who believe they’ve been railroaded by their departments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2024

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 a group of faculty members rallied to support her, arguing that she was being railroaded for a moment of poorly worded remarks about antisemitism.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2023

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 also invested in coal mining, gas, water, railroading, land development, banking and marine navigation.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

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

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep