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) or (US) railroad
a cable railway
a railway engine,
a railway strike
Aid workers first arrived in Ryongchon on Saturday, and recounted seeing huge craters, twisted railroad tracks and scorched buildings.canada.com (2004)
Meanwhile, container traffic from China moving east has become the railroad 's largest business segment, overtaking grain bulk shipments.canada.com (2004)
Mr Clarke and Mr Hain want to railroad detention without trial through the Commons in six days. They will doubtless succeed.Times, Sunday Times (2005)
On 22 April 1889, about fifty thousand would-be claimants crowded up behind a line drawn by the army near the railroad track.Andro Linklater MEASURING AMERICA (2002)
That was the first through railroad of any importance, that was, in America.Malcolm, John Whistler in the Dark
The day his parents saw him off at East Hampton railroad station he sensed it was the last time he'd ever see his father.Mark Mills AMAGANSETT (2004)
The media conglomerates that Locke despises "betray a confidence just as blind as that of the railroad companies a century ago.Times, Sunday Times (2001)
The short cut was along the railroad which ran parallel to the highway, set back a good distance.Adair, Tom (Intro) Three Kinds of Kissing - Scottish Short Stories
`It amounts to a saving in pesticide application of 1 litre per acre, enough to fill about 14 large railroad tank cars," says Giddings.New Scientist (1998)
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