as in road
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 railroad Extensive damage from the hurricane put an end to a railroad dating back to 1912, the first direct, over-island route to Key West. Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025 After the railroad went out of business around 1980, the building began to deteriorate. Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2025 About 60 years earlier, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford had founded the university on his stock farm in Palo Alto, a sparsely populated town in a region where apricot and peach trees outnumbered houses. Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025 That’s why some coaches will tell runners to imagine keeping their feet on separate railroad tracks. Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for railroad
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Noun
  • There are at least some echoes of the ultra-hyper violent God of War, the famed video game series, and that is getting a live-action adaptation on Amazon Prime Video down the road.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • When the original owner of the bookstore needed to move locations down the road, the town residents showed up in droves, creating a human conveyor belt moving the books hand-to-hand down to the new location.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 3 May 2025
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  • The local railway station, Witton, has long been a sticking point.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Every day, more than 430,000 passengers ride the Tokaido Shinkansen, a key Japanese railway artery that connects its capital Tokyo with Nagoya and Osaka, according to JR Central.
    Arata Yamamoto, NBC news, 1 May 2025

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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 12 May. 2025.

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