How to Use trackage in a Sentence

trackage

noun

• There’s going to have to be trackage rights given.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Dec. 2025
• Only once the train arrives close to the O’Hare campus (about the last mile and a half) will the train need new trackage.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
• Vena was less certain about the shifting of trackage rights, which allow for trains from one railroad to use the tracks of another.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Dec. 2025
• Today the railroad has 60 employees and 182 miles of track and trackage rights along the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
  — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
• In fact, Iowa Interstate pays trackage rights fees to CSX in order to reach Joliet, and both carriers pay trackage rights fees to Metra to reach Chicago.
  — F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026