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Recent Examples of railroad
Service will continue on the busiest commuter railroad in North America while this emergency board process is underway.
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ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
The railroad offers several seating types, from open-air gondolas to coach seats and the more upscale parlor car experience.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
The closest contamination to Burnham Yard is underground at Atlas Metals & Iron, a scrapyard on the west side of the property, across from a set of railroad tracks.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
In 1872, crews from the railroad laid tracks through the area of Bass Lake.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
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ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
The railroad offers several seating types, from open-air gondolas to coach seats and the more upscale parlor car experience.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
The closest contamination to Burnham Yard is underground at Atlas Metals & Iron, a scrapyard on the west side of the property, across from a set of railroad tracks.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
In 1872, crews from the railroad laid tracks through the area of Bass Lake.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad
Noun
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The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Mounted officers and sniffer dogs patrolled the streets near Windsor and Eton Central railway station, monitoring arrivals and maintaining security around the historic town.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The live deployment runs on DB’s digital railway test field in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), Germany.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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