railroad

Their railroad company, the Central Pacific, made the nation’s transcontinental railroad happen, and later created and controlled the Southern Pacific.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Fortress Investment Group-backed railroad plans a bankruptcy filing after struggling with $5.5 billion in debt and slow ridership growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

When the railroad stocks crashed, nobody went and ripped up the rails and said, “Let’s go back to horses and carriages.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Drive an hour to Roanoke, a trading hub for Native Americans and British colonists that later became a railroad boomtown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Before we went home, we watched for a while as the workmen started to take apart the railroad trestle.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Over those decades, tycoons have leveraged their fortunes to shape the state with their railroads, mines, newspapers, oil businesses and ranching and agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Like the railroads, like the oil business, the Silicon Valley creators and innovators began as hoodie-wearing outsider heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

“It’s not a coincidence. For massive events like this to happen it doesn’t matter if the cause is different,” said Dennis, who has written a book on the future of railroads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

I owned the railroads, the utilities, and the orange properties.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

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

Feeling "railroaded" and "powerless", she left in tears and concluded the family would need their own lawyers if their questions about the care Daniel received were to be fully answered.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

If I had been railroaded, the authorities would have known how I’d gotten it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Call off the swarms of lawyers and PR handlers, the howling about railroading and witch hunts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

At its core, precision scheduled railroading aims to produce better results with less work.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

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

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep