railroad

When Cornelius Vanderbilt took steps to break up a railroad monopoly along the Hudson River in 1867, he was praised as a public benefactor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

That was the case with the first transcontinental railroad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

Dad turned Stentor away from the worrisome scene in the railroad yard.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

By the middle of the 19th century, home heating and an expanding network of railroads required reliable supplies of coal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

One area benefiting from that search: Shares of the railroads, airlines and trucks moving the goods and supplies powering the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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 luckiest ones worked for the post office or as porters on the railroads.

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

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

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 Mr Webber's mother Emma said the CPS had not consulted them, and said they had been "rushed, hastened and railroaded", while Mr Coates's son James said Calocane had "got away with murder".

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024

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

Mr. Johnston said he believed that the operations had really begun deteriorating about four years ago, around the time the company said it would adopt efficiency measures known in the industry as precision scheduled railroading.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

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

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep