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More recently in June, a rail car loaded with lithium-ion batteries caught fire as it was being burglarized in the Cajon Pass, authorities and railroad representatives said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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

Within a few decades, railroad fortunes like those of Jay Gould, E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the largest in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

As the train slowed down at each railroad station, Brown tossed the latest update out the window to an Associated Press agent, who spread the news by telegraph.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Look at the internet or railroads, another argued: Each was marked by a wave of euphoria, then the eventual sorting of the winners and losers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Grant used the destruction of railroads and logistical networks, and superior manpower, to smother the Confederacy during his 1864 Wilderness Campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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 railroads had made it known early and forcefully that they had no plans to discount their Chicago fares for the exposition.

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

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

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