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 Rob Albrecht-Mallinger, the plan commission’s chairman, noted that with the South Shore railroad’s track upgrade and the ongoing Marquette Greenway project, a trail that will one day stretch from Chicago to New Buffalo, Michigan, the town will see more tourism. Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2025 Cloud computing, 5G, edge computing and massive data centers could be considered the new railroads and factories. Kevin Brady, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025 Some liken it to the early days of the railroads, when entire towns grew up around new lines. Diana Olick, CNBC, 15 July 2025 Developers, in recent years, have put forward plans to build a soccer stadium, retail, housing and entertainment venues in the area, which has sat largely empty since railroad operators pulled out in the 1990s. Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for railroad
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  • On the flip-side, the World Health Organization cites traffic noise such as road, rail and air traffic as the second most important cause of ill health in western Europe behind air pollution.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 15 July 2025
  • Torrential rains caused travel delays throughout the city, flooding subways and roads and delaying flights at JFK, Laguardia and Newark airports.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 15 July 2025
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  • On top of that, an ongoing railway worker shortage continues to lengthen dwell times for containers waiting at the port.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 July 2025
  • Williams, the son of a Welsh railway worker, was, like Dyer, lifted by grammar school and a scholarship to an august university—Cambridge, in his case.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025

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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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