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The railroad operator reported a profit of $1.05 billion and revenue of $4.02 billion in the third quarter, driven by fuel surcharges and higher freight volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The ambitious project has supporters, though, who see a historic opportunity to turn an old railroad into a regional asset — even if some of them question how it’s being developed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Lincoln is concerned that the Great Redwood Trail will disturb historic tribal sites in the Eel River Canyon and advocates for an alternative route that would diverge from the railroad line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Scientists in Japan have discovered that tiny steps just one atom high can act like microscopic railroad tracks, guiding the movement of quantum vortices inside an ultrathin superconductor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“It would bring the railroad closer to the river and the mill.”

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

U.S. railroads continued to benefit from shippers shifting cargo to rail from trucks, with Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX this week posting higher quarterly revenues and profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The IMF has said that the amount invested in AI will likely outstrip the capital put into building the railroads, the electricity grid or global telecommunications networks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The industrialists of the 19th and 20th centuries made their fortunes on new markets like oil, steel and railroads.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Public contentment with horses and railroads remained high until World War I, when the military concluded that it really did need trucks.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

Before flying home, he requested to meet the women and apologise, which one complainant said she felt "railroaded" into attending.

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

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 criticized the company’s practice of precision scheduled railroading, which involves cutting back on rail yard workers, inspectors and equipment to adhere to stricter train schedules to maximize profits.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

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

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep