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railroads

noun

plural of railroad

as in roads

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel that railroad hasn't been used for passenger trains for decades

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Recent Examples of railroads The initiative, according to details shared first with Semafor, will allow state-level transportation agencies and railroads to lease out land alongside roads and tracks to private sector companies to develop new infrastructure. — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026 The story of Colorado’s railroads doesn’t end in the Royal Gorge. — Jocelyn Rowley, Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2026 The Flyer group would also need agreements from the Union Pacific and Canadian National railroads to lease their tracks. — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 The rapid expansion of railroads allowed products to be distributed far beyond local markets. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2026 While the railroads take sides on the issue, some lawmakers have sought to sway the STB into rejecting the megamerger. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026 The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act, for example, prohibits states from imposing certain property taxes on railroads and expressly gives federal courts jurisdiction to stop them, notwithstanding the aforementioned TIA. — Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 It’s all meant to defeat the crime rings that are often armed with nothing more than hydraulic bolt cutters, preying on railroads as a reliable source of easy-to-steal merchandise. — Kiel Porter, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026 Few railroads pack as much history into so few miles as the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway. — Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026

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All roads lead to Doug Mason, who also admitted the coincidence was mutual.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Tens of thousands of amateurs follow suit, keen to ride the same roads.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

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These have included arson, high-profile hacks, GPS jamming as well as sabotage actions against key infrastructure, including undersea communication cables, logistics centers and railways.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026
The city was also brimming with foreign workers living in camps in and around Dresden, who had been brought in to work on the railways since so many German men were off fighting.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026

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