Word Finder - railroad

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A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.

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Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads

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The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.

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A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets

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Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other

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A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.

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The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.

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To transport via railroad.

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To operate a railroad.

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The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly

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To work for a railroad.

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To travel by railroad.

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To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.

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To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.

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The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.

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To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.

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They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.

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To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.

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He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.

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To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.

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(upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.

The railroad is close enough now that wagons can reach it from Ashley faster than we can cross the desert.

At the foot of the mountain there was a railroad, and the children watched the trains whiz by.

You're forgetting the underground railroad.

Hoosick Falls is served by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and is connected by electric railway with Bennington, Vermont, about 8 m.

Tamaqua is served by the Central railroad of New Jersey, by the Philadelphia and Reading railway and by an electric line connecting with Mauch Chunk, Pottsville, and other places.

Plymouth is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad.

The Grand Trunk Railroad Company has here two of the largest grain warehouses on the Atlantic Coast.

The railroad was scheduled to reach Ashley soon and there would be no need for freighting goods to the little town.

In 1849 the regular payment of the interest of the public debt was commenced, steam communication was established along the Pacific coast, and a railroad was made from Lima to Callao.

The other administrative officers are a secretary of state, an attorney-general, an auditor, a treasurer, a commissioner of public schools, a railroad commissioner, and a factory inspector, and various boards and commissions, such as the board of education, the board of agriculture, the board of health, and the commissioners of inland fisheries, commissioners of harbours and commissioners of pilots.

Rochester is served by four lines of the Boston & Maine railroad.

These are within a short distance of the railroad.

During this same year, the Nottingham Canal was officially abandoned by its railroad owners.

She became the beneficial owner of all the shares in the Talyllyn Railroad Company.

We felt the enthusiasm of the volunteers that the Dean Forest railroad exists.

Going down toward the river you will see the abutments of the old railroad bridge, one of many on the branch.

We also remain accessible for our members, being within easy reach of most London mainline railroad stations.

However, on the railroad, the brakes are permanently on - operated by a large water accumulator via the drivers hand wheel.

In the late 50s the government were investing 391 million pounds in the then ailing and loss-making railroad industry.

It looks more akin to the 1920s products of the Southern Railroad, such as those at Margate and Ramsgate.

She crossed a disused railroad line tugging her cream-coloured, baby alpaca coat about her ankles.

Originally the ECR had obtained Parliamentary approval to raise the capital to build a railroad from London to Norwich via Ipswich.

At Holt, the William Marriott Museum is due to open in the next few weeks, adding a valuable asset to the railroad.

We are the World?s leading specialist auctioneers of railroad antiques.

A railroad car used to carry baggage is also called a van.

Additionally, the quarry siding despatched two or three trains of railroad ballast daily.

Retractable bollards have restricted access to Grafton Road north of the railroad line during rush hour for years.

Menzies owned the rights to the works of Charles Dickens but is better remembered for his railroad bookstalls.

The Hampstead Junction Railroad, built by 1857, ran along the southern boundary of West End House.

A few years ago a three year old boy called Benny wandered off alone onto an electric railroad line.

Textile mills, churches, schools, hospitals, farm buildings, railroad stations or Ministry of Defense sites are just a few examples.

A chariot burial was excavated near the railroad station, right.

Working vintage bus and narrow-gauge railroad service, traditional craftspeople, exhibitions, nature trails and more!

Even in the 19th century, the railroad age, British capitalists did not make vast fortunes out of them.

We went to the railroad depot, toward evening, and Ferguson got tickets for a second-class carriage.

Also ' The Pullman ' the pub near the level crossing in Grays which depicts the renowned Pullman railroad carriages painted umber and cream.

The main question being discussed in the railroad carriage around me is how long he can survive.

The line of of the lane can still be identified today by the slightly raised causeway both sides of the railroad line.

The garden was designed with further recycled resources in mind using old chimney pots, railroad sleepers and cockle shells from the local beach.

Showing a woodland clearing with what appears to be a row of railroad sleepers in the foreground.

The Times reports that the Government is to create a chain of walk-in clinics in main railroad stations to relieve the pressure on GPs.

July 11, 1906 We heartily congratulate the Great Northern Railroad Company on having brought Newark within two hours of the bracing Lincolnshire coast.

He is particularly conversant with multi-discipline projects (e.g. power projects, railroad projects ).

Due to Metro Railroad construction this is now CLOSED with a very convoluted diversion only partly signed via back streets.

Using a specially designed board, you use crayons to draw your railroad lines.

The tarmac rapidly crumbled into a dirt road shadowing the line of the old Central Pacific Railroad.

In the same decade the Southern Railroad rebuilt the station platform sides with the then customary prefabricated concrete.

The site is a steep sided disused railroad cutting consisting of limestone grassland with scrub.

The railroad will no longer go through the Maputo elephant reserve, but around it, in an area that is already deforested.

Also of interest were pure copper deposits on the railroad lines caused by electrochemical deposition from the water passing through.