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railroad

[reyl-rohd] / ˈreɪlˌroʊd /


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The $13 billion figure shows the strength of the company’s railroad, energy and manufacturing, service, and retailing units.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

SpaceX, he adds, has cut the cost of reaching orbit from around $10,000-$20,000 a kilogram to about $2,000 with its Falcon 9 rocket - "they have built a railroad to space."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

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

By the time we had done the hills and the railroad grade, pushing in new snow all the time, they were ready for a rest.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

Spending targets range from cybersecurity and industrial capacity to railroads, bridges and ports needed for military logistics.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

The consolidation of the industry started with innovations in transportation: first canals, then railroads.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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

Her mother Lesley said the company had "railroaded thousands of people's education".

From BBC Oct. 13, 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 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




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