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Railroad
Railroad Rail"road`, v. t.
To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put
through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush
unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress. [Colloq., U.
S.]
RailroadRailroad Rail"road`, Railway Rail"way`, n.
1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks
for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a
bed or substructure.
Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of
the older tramway.
2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings,
rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and
constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been
put into the hands of a receiver.
Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the
commoner word in the United States.
Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and
railway are used interchangeably:
Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See under
Atmospheric, Elevated, etc.
Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable.
Perry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated
platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water
course.
Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which
the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long
distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an
elevated point by stationary engines.
Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or
locomotives.
Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels
fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [Eng.]
Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms
part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer.
Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe
concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad
accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other
disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain
in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral
disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till
some months after the injury.
Underground railroad or railway.
(a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as
beneath the streets of a city.
(b) Formerly, a system of co["o]peration among certain
active antislavery people in the United States, by
which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach
Canada.
Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was
used.] ``Their house was a principal entrep[^o]t of the
underground railroad.' --W. D. Howells.
Meaning of Railroad from wikipedia
- city.
Railroads not only
increased the
speed of transport, they also
dramatically lowered its cost. For example, the
first transcontinental railroad in the...
- The
Underground Railroad was an
organized network of
secret routes and safe
houses used by
freedom s****ers to
escape to the
abolitionist Northern United...
- (CSXT)
First Coast Railroad (FCRD) (GWI)
Florida Central Railroad (FCEN)
Florida East
Coast Railway (FEC)
Florida Gulf &
Atlantic Railroad (FGA)
Florida Midland...
- The
Union Pacific Railroad (reporting
marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a
class I freight-hauling
railroad that
operates 8,300
locomotives over 32,200
miles (51...
- A
transcontinental railroad or
transcontinental railway is
contiguous railroad trackage that
crosses a
continental land m**** and has
terminals at different...
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Railroad classes are the
system by
which freight railroads are
designated in the
United States.
Railroads are ****igned to
class I, II or III according...
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following railroads have been
named Union Railroad or
Union Railway,
usually because they
connected or
merged several other railroads.
Union Railroad (Pittsburgh)...
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Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR),
legal name as the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also
known as the "Pennsy," was an
American class I
railroad that...
- A
gravity railroad (American English) or
gravity railway (British English) is a
railroad on a
slope that
allows cars
carrying minerals or p****engers to...
- The
Dorchester Railroad and
Dorchester Extension Railroad was a
horse car line in Boston, M****achusetts, in the late 19th century. It ran from Downtown...
