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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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Nepal’s Department of Roads says at least 19 motorable bridges and around 40 kilometers of roads have also been damaged or washed away.

— Milad Haghani, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026
Rescue efforts, still in their first stages, have been hampered by the fact that the floodwaters have washed away entire roads.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

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Finch argues that because kudzu is most aggressive along roads, railways, and forest edges, the vine has become hyper-visible in the age of the automobile.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
Those facilities provide drydocks, shiplifts, railways and pier-side support for Navy and government vessels.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026

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