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Recent Examples of railroads
Key infrastructure projects are also underway including renovating ports, airports and railroads.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Feb. 2026
Among his priorities is changing the agency’s name because the Railroad Commission no longer regulates railroads, focusing instead on oil and gas, pipelines, natural gas utilities and certain mining activities.
—Aarón Torres, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
These mines powered America – helping to build railroads and cities.
—Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
But officials from both railroads said Thursday that their work remained on schedule, and that the second track over the Hackensack River would return by the evening of March 15.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
The railroads arms, lights and audio bells were working at the time of the crash, police say.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
The Guadalupe Centers opened in 1919 for thousands of Mexicans, Medina said, who largely either were recruited by railroads to work here or fled to Kansas City after the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
—Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026
These were modern inventions made possible by the introduction of railroads to transport prisoners long distances from battlefields, and by the growth of administrative and organizational structures required to manage not just mass armies but hundreds of thousands of prisoners.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, follows his key character one Robert Grainier, played brilliantly by Edgerton, a lumberman who felled timber for railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Feb. 2026
Among his priorities is changing the agency’s name because the Railroad Commission no longer regulates railroads, focusing instead on oil and gas, pipelines, natural gas utilities and certain mining activities.
—Aarón Torres, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
These mines powered America – helping to build railroads and cities.
—Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
But officials from both railroads said Thursday that their work remained on schedule, and that the second track over the Hackensack River would return by the evening of March 15.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
The railroads arms, lights and audio bells were working at the time of the crash, police say.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
The Guadalupe Centers opened in 1919 for thousands of Mexicans, Medina said, who largely either were recruited by railroads to work here or fled to Kansas City after the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
—Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026
These were modern inventions made possible by the introduction of railroads to transport prisoners long distances from battlefields, and by the growth of administrative and organizational structures required to manage not just mass armies but hundreds of thousands of prisoners.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, follows his key character one Robert Grainier, played brilliantly by Edgerton, a lumberman who felled timber for railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroads
Noun
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Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Mar. 2026
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Morris mentioned pedestrian caps possibly being built along various roads in the downtown area to encourage people to explore local businesses more easily.—
Hedija Spahalic,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Over the past few decades, China's transformation into a manufacturing superpower was underpinned by booming construction of homes, office buildings, roads, ports and railways.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Over the years, the cemetery has been impacted multiple times due to construction of roadways and railways, including the highway construction in the 1980s and 1990s.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Railroads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroads. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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