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 From railroads to telecoms to energy, industries with concentrated wealth and technical expertise have usually succeeded in bending rules to their favor. Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The museum’s exhibits tell the story of the grist mill, town, and railroad. Tykesha Spivey Burton, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025 The year that mother died, 1869, was the one when the transcontinental railroad linked us to the rest of the world. Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025 The accident happened on a relatively flat, old railroad bed, Shaver said, and not in one of the areas of the park with more steep terrain. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for railroad
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Noun
  • Of course, other corporations have been down a similarly troubled road in recent years.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Bobcats went on the road Thursday night and struggled in the second half in a 38-21 loss against Lewisville at Max Goldsmith Stadium.
    Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • At least 15 people have been killed and 18 were injured after a funicular railway in Lisbon, Portugal, derailed on Wednesday.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Maintenance for the railway has been outsourced to an external contractor since 2011 and has been handled by MAIN - Maintenance Engineering since 2022.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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