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Not before an awful lot of work, though, and Charles Crocker, the indefatigable, hard-handed railroad magnate in charge of the Central Pacific’s construction crews, looked around for people to do it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The famed railroad line along the San Clemente coast has found itself on the endangered list amid a relentless assault from rising seas and punishing surf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In inflation-adjusted terms, the AI sector is expected to borrow more this year than US cable operators did to build out the entire internet, or than railroad companies did during the 19th-century US rail boom.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Highway maintenance, railroad scheduling and earthquake detection were among the civilian activities affected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the living were not the only ones to be found on the greatest railroad in the nation.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

Container-shipping rates, meanwhile, are up, while railroads, parcel-delivery companies such as FedEx, and even the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But unlike most ruins, the railroads were actually useful, and not just for hoverboarding.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

Having stripped away most of the documentary’s narration and sit-down interviews with Kerr’s family and friends, the film barely explores anyone’s psychology — and Blunt’s railroaded Dawn loses her chance to speak for herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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

"They have railroaded this through the courts despite local outrage at the plans."

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 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