: a point on a railroad at which traffic may originate or terminate
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Getty Images The effort is coordinated with the nearing completion of the southern railhead in Kern County—a 150-acre staging yard set to serve as a logistics base for installing track components directly along the route.
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Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Officials completed environmental reviews on the 463 miles from L.A. to San Jose, electrified its Bay Area corridor (a prerequisite for high-speed rail service there), and began the process of laying track, with the railhead groundbreaking at Bakersfield.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2025
On January 6, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that state authorities were ready to start laying track on the state's high-speed rail project, starting with the railhead project in Kern County in Central Valley.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Seaports and railheads can ensure high levels of connectivity.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
But Ukraine’s airfields, training bases, weapons factories and railheads more or less were safe.
—David Axe, Forbes, 2 May 2023
Between 1860 and 1890, drovers herded more than four million cattle up the Chisolm Trail to railheads in Kansas so the cattle could be shipped up north.
—Tamara Gane, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023
Hull acquired the property from his uncle Wes Miller, who had operated a mill on the site since World War I. Located on 28 acres on the east slope of the Coast Range at the end of Dawson Road off Oregon 99W, the property was once a Southern Pacific railhead known as Dawson Station.
—Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
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Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Officials completed environmental reviews on the 463 miles from L.A. to San Jose, electrified its Bay Area corridor (a prerequisite for high-speed rail service there), and began the process of laying track, with the railhead groundbreaking at Bakersfield.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2025
On January 6, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that state authorities were ready to start laying track on the state's high-speed rail project, starting with the railhead project in Kern County in Central Valley.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Seaports and railheads can ensure high levels of connectivity.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
But Ukraine’s airfields, training bases, weapons factories and railheads more or less were safe.
—David Axe, Forbes, 2 May 2023
Between 1860 and 1890, drovers herded more than four million cattle up the Chisolm Trail to railheads in Kansas so the cattle could be shipped up north.
—Tamara Gane, Chron, 29 Apr. 2023
Hull acquired the property from his uncle Wes Miller, who had operated a mill on the site since World War I. Located on 28 acres on the east slope of the Coast Range at the end of Dawson Road off Oregon 99W, the property was once a Southern Pacific railhead known as Dawson Station.
—Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
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“Railhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/railhead. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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