railroad
Example Sentences
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Open since 1939, it’s one of the country’s last great train stations and considered to be the largest railroad passenger terminal on the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
The transport sector, which tends to be associated with the non-tech part of the market, given that it includes shares of airlines, railroad operators and trucking companies, is also tangentially benefiting from AI growth.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
Other railroads are against it, saying that the rail industry is consolidated enough and that the proposed merger would fuel more mergers in the industry and result in even fewer railroad operators.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
In the 1870s, Leland Stanford, the railroad magnate and benefactor of the university that bears his name, funded an effort to find out.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
“Gawk at a bunch of implements in the Montezuma railroad yard with all those cinders underfoot?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing railroad
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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