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Definition of railroad:

  • (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
  • (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels
  • (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means;
  • (verb) supply with railroad lines; "railroad the West"
  • (verb) transport by railroad

Sentence Examples:

We had been gander-dancing on a new railroad for weeks.

Every railroad corporation is bound to be a Sabbath-keeping corporation.

Experiences of your community with respect to railroad rate discrimination.

A railroad at no distant day will penetrate this plateau.

"Oh, they'll not make a railroad up here this century."

The railroad people will never be able to follow us.'

The railroads used iron rails, but these soon wore out.

Some time there may be a railroad across the continent.

It made him the owner of a great railroad system.

When railroads came, the coaches travelled remoter ways.

I had done no railroad-riding to speak of till then.

It stands at unprotected railroad crossings to warn of danger.

The railroads rapidly recovered; their service was restored.

George Bradley at that time was an unemployed railroad worker.

They want hands on the railroad up here at Independence.

It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country.

Then he quit and took a job on the railroad.

A railroad extension, however, is now headed in that direction.

I can soon whip in those railroad chiefs of his.

I formerly had as much railroad transportation as I wished.

Portrays dramatic role of great railroad in a crucial period.

First a road, then a railroad and again a road!

For many years ticket agent, Old Colony Railroad.

The agrarian attacks upon railroads are an instance of this.

Most of our railroad men began life on the farm.

It is good enough for residences, factories and railroad buildings.

He was the first of the line of railroad kings.

The railroad is to put on an extra morning train.

Amar, we may soon be closely questioned by railroad officials.

One is a massive structure to help the railroad over.

Damon, and no railroad around here runs anywhere near it.

A railroad had been built since Duane had gone into exile.

"I guess they'll get after that railroad man next."

This made his work difficult, especially with railroad men.

It has given public lands to Pacific railroads. c.

Everybody now wanted to live near a railroad or a canal.

Large or small, the railroad always gets my profits.

Very good road and almost parallel with the railroad.

Louis, near a hill where I used to report railroad strikes.

Now they were after his railroad and his valley.

Every thing upon the railroad proceeds with systematic accuracy.

For the first: what happened was a railroad wreck.

In those days railroad travelling was far from pleasant.

We hate a railroad as a bull hates a red flag.

Monopoly in land, in railroads, telegraphs, fostered manufactures, etc.

Maybe I'll find the rest of my railroad now.

"You'll succeed all right, Bob," said the railroad president.

The towns and the railroads are back of us.

Signal-lights now guide the railroad train through the night.

Railroads must have a name people are not afraid to pronounce.

Governmental control of the railroads, was only a beginning.

Some of our railroad managers take this view of the subject.

Indeed, the automobile is really older than the railroad.

Telephone and railroad service was interrupted in every direction.

Railroad-building is also being greatly stimulated by private enterprise.

And hundreds smashed up and killed on the railroads.

The railroads now provided for and made to St.

It will be said, that railroads now carry commerce.

If there is a railroad near, show it upon your plan.

The following day he went down to the railroad.

She called the public booths in the railroad station.

Is he equally polite to a railroad magnate and a tramp?

The railroad battalion worked wonders in grading and laying.

Hewitt, who was then president of the railroad company.

Railroads and telegraph lines were torn up and destroyed.

The railroad was ten miles away by the road.

The railroad has its own notions of fairness sometimes.

The campaign for Railroad Commissioner had been very interesting.

With the railroad's coming the isolated homogeneous community scattered.

Jim Evans had been discharged from the railroad service.

The managers of all our well-conducted railroads understand this.

That trail has been long even from the railroad.

From a railroad to an ant is too long a jump.

The country was full of "Wall Street Railroad Generals."

Indeed, the automobile is really older than the railroad.

We're not taking any more chances on this railroad.

Better wire for your stage accommodation from the railroad.

All was rush and bustle about the railroad yard.

I am on railroad property and have done nothing to anybody.'

Perry Robinson, the father being a wealthy railroad man.

The troops camped half a mile from the railroad.

Nearly all railroads are bordered by belts of desolation.

Unfortunately my lands are eleven miles from the railroad.

After the war there was talk of a railroad.

The railroad was then only a subject for conversation.

Across the eye spun the thread of the railroad.

Field and the Elevated Railroads in New York City.

In 1871 the railroad was built through the county.

Why, racing, railroads, contested elections, are nothing to it.

For the time the hated railroad survey was forgotten.

Railroads were destroyed, and buildings and plantations were burned.

"Old Tom ought to have his railroad, oughtn't he?"

Nelson stopped and looked back toward the railroad station.

Bixby away from the boxes and the Railroad Room.

The kindly little railroad president was very serious now.

Then comes in the great advantage of the railroad.

These railroads were in fact only improved stage routes.

"The railroads kill this here water business," he said.

And so it was officially fixed for the railroad.

It was condemned by railroad men throughout the country.