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railroad

[reyl-rohd] / ˈreɪlˌroʊd /


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The Canadian railroad on Friday upgraded its forecasts for the year, noting shifts in freight expectations and broader economic conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

For Union Pacific, it’s also become a builder of goodwill for its proposed multibillion merger with East Coast-based railroad Norfolk Southern.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 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

But we were miles from the railroad, and this was a full orchestra, with violins.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

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 directors insisted on many gates, and the railroads refused to channel their exposition traffic through a single depot.

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

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

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

Freight railroading has survived for nearly two centuries through constant reinvention.

From New York Times Sep. 19, 2022

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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