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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 Railroads from wikipedia
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Financing of
railroads provided the
basis for a
dramatic expansion of the
private (non-governmental)
financial system.
Construction of
railroads was far more...
- list of
railroads operating in the U.S.
state of Florida.
Alabama and Gulf
Coast Railway (AGR) (GWI) AN
Railway (AN) (GWI) Bay Line
Railroad (BAYL) (GWI)...
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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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bankrupt railroads in the northeast.
Railroads'
fortunes changed after the p****age of the
Staggers Rail Act (1980),
which deregulated railroad companies...
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acquired Railfan &
Railroad magazine in 2014, it was
decided to end
monthly production of
Railroads Illustrated. ****ure
editions of
Railroads Illustrated would...
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regional commuter railroads are also members.
Smaller freight railroads are
typically represented by the
American Short Line and
Regional Railroad ****ociation...
- This is a list of
Mexican railroads,
common carrier railroads operating as part of rail
transport in Mexico.
Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana...
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About 700
railroads operate common carrier freight service in the
United States.
There are
about 160,141 mi (257,722 km) of
railroad track in the United...
- As a result,
railroads transformed the country,
particularly the West (which had few
navigable rivers). For example,
before the
railroads were
built in...
- borders. Such
networks may be via the
tracks of a
single railroad, or via
several railroads owned or
controlled by
multiple railway companies along a...
