Synonyms of railroads

railroads

noun

plural of railroad

as in roads

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel

that railroad hasn't been used for passenger trains for decades

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roads
• railways
• rails
• elevated railroads
• els
• monorails
• elevateds

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of railroads

In the 1900s, Standard Oil owned critical oil production infrastructure, pipelines and railroads. — Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026

The characters on their show made their fortunes in railroads and oil, this new gang of robber barons controls everything from AI to electric cars and social networks. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2026

The diagnosis exploded in popularity and was widely blamed on railroads, radios, telegraphs, newspapers, and the industrialization of the times. — Kirsten Balin, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026

The Texas Railroad Commission — which oversees the state’s oil and gas industry, not railroads — has become a political lightning rod after former Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French won the Republican nomination for the seat. — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026

Record-high diesel prices pushed freight off the highway and onto the railroads in the third quarter, lifting CSX, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to record revenue. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

When that bubble burst in the Panic of 1893, a third of railroads went bust, more than 500 banks failed, and the economy plunged into a four-year depression. — Ming Lu, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

The economist William Nordhaus has shown that only two percent of the value created by innovations of the past, including railroads, airlines, and the Internet, went to the companies that built these networks. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026

The company says several major railroads are now under contract to deploy its system for commercial freight transport. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026