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During the four years following the crash of 1893, more than half of that trackage was in receivership, but no one tore up the rails.
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William H. Janeway, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2013
The Baltimore Transit Company (BTC) annual report of May 1960 tells a revelatory tale about how public transit in Baltimore was treated 60 years ago, when there were still 101 individual streetcars operating on 56 miles of trackage.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2020
The rail lines have different owners but railroad companies frequently share trackage rights, said Tom Crosson, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern.
—Andy Peters, ajc, 23 Nov. 2021
The trip covers most of the current operating trackage of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
—Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2020
China’s government was using manual labor to maintain its railway system’s trackage.
—WSJ, 7 Aug. 2020
Caltrain already has benefited from this approach to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for electrification on the premise that, at some point in the future, high-speed trains would use the same trackage.
—John Horgan, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
The commission said then there were signs that lack of competition in interconnection and trackage rights, which is allowing use of tracks by other operators, had restricted access to lines and pushed up freight costs.
—Anthony Harrup, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
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William H. Janeway, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2013
The Baltimore Transit Company (BTC) annual report of May 1960 tells a revelatory tale about how public transit in Baltimore was treated 60 years ago, when there were still 101 individual streetcars operating on 56 miles of trackage.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2020
The rail lines have different owners but railroad companies frequently share trackage rights, said Tom Crosson, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern.
—Andy Peters, ajc, 23 Nov. 2021
The trip covers most of the current operating trackage of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
—Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2020
China’s government was using manual labor to maintain its railway system’s trackage.
—WSJ, 7 Aug. 2020
Caltrain already has benefited from this approach to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for electrification on the premise that, at some point in the future, high-speed trains would use the same trackage.
—John Horgan, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
The commission said then there were signs that lack of competition in interconnection and trackage rights, which is allowing use of tracks by other operators, had restricted access to lines and pushed up freight costs.
—Anthony Harrup, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
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“Trackage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trackage. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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