railroad
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Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boarding house into a hotel and renamed it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
But it was generations of American workers who strung the telegraph wire, laid the railroad tracks, and built the interstate highways and buried the fiber.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
But the FAA expressly excludes from arbitration “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
Transportation construction spending, as the government defines it, refers to structures used for transportation, such as airport hangars, bus terminals, railroad tracks and marinas.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Annie told me she heard that Mr. William Vanderbilt, the millionaire who’s paying Mr. Gorringe to bring Cleopatra’s Needle here, owns the railroad.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing railroad
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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History of India - Introductory
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