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In inflation-adjusted terms, the AI sector is expected to borrow more this year than US cable operators did to build out the entire internet, or than railroad companies did during the 19th-century US rail boom.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The family of prominent railroad and oil tycoon Daniel Murphy donated it after his death and the Church leased it to oil developers beginning in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The railroad carried nearly 1.4 million long-distance passengers from January through August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Private passenger railroad Brightline has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy after buckling under $5.5 billion in debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He has worked hard all his life, on the family farm, on the railroad, in the livery stable, and on the Chilean stagecoaches.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

With California’s coast getting pounded by strong waves amid a strengthening El Niño, residents and city leaders are turning to big rocks and seawalls to protect homes and keep railroads from falling into the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

But existing customers of railroads also face higher bills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads, and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Intermodal containers and trailers carried on U.S. railroads in the week ended Sept. 19, up 6.9% from a year earlier, according to the Association of American Railroads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The railroads scheduled special trains to carry the masses of humanity southward.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The Clippers are howling in protest, vehemently rejecting the league’s conclusions and stating they’ve been railroaded by a “heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

"They have railroaded this through the courts despite local outrage at the plans."

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024

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

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Call off the swarms of lawyers and PR handlers, the howling about railroading and witch hunts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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