railroad through

Example Sentences

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Secret Service who reached out to the North County Transit District, which owns the railroad through Camp Pendleton, to request that the tracks be closed through the base on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

The issue in court this week dates back to 1889 when BNSF’s predecessor, the Seattle and Northern Railroad Company, illegally constructed a railroad through the Swinomish Reservation.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Though it was poor and mired in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, China won new allies in Africa by finishing, in 1976, a 1,156-mile railroad through the bush from Tanzania to Zambia.

From New York Times • May 2, 2017

It was nevertheless an important overland route for centuries to come – and when an American consortium finally succeeded in building a railroad through Panama’s dense jungle in 1855, the line proved immensely popular.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

At the period of which we write, the railroad through the Teche country had not been constructed, and the population was very sparsely scattered over this region.

From Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives by Optic, Oliver