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Scientists in Japan have discovered that tiny steps just one atom high can act like microscopic railroad tracks, guiding the movement of quantum vortices inside an ultrathin superconductor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

After dropping out of high school at 14, he worked on the local railroad and in his father’s wholesale grocery before co-founding a chapter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

The family of prominent railroad and oil tycoon Daniel Murphy donated it after his death and the Church leased it to oil developers beginning in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

His old employers on the railroad quickly come to the same conclusion.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

By the end of 1893, many of the nation’s best-known railroads declared bankruptcy, including the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Reading and Erie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

“And we know who is involved. The way things are shaping up, Nell, it’s much more than the railroads that need protecting now.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

She said: "The CPS did not consult us as has been reported - instead we have been rushed, hastened and railroaded."

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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

That system, known as precision scheduled railroading, focused on running rigid, consistent schedules, streamlining processes and routes, and cutting back on equipment and employees.

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