Synonym: dragoon, railroad line, railroad track, railway, railway line, railway system, sandbag. Similar words: road, broad, on the road, broadcast, take the road, rail, trail, trailer. Meaning: ['reɪlrəʊd] 
n. 1. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight 2. a line of track providing a runway for wheels. v. 1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means 2. supply with railroad lines 3. transport by railroad.
n. 1. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight 2. a line of track providing a runway for wheels. v. 1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means 2. supply with railroad lines 3. transport by railroad. 
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31 His crowning achievement was his invention of the railroad air brake.
32 But she laid out several principles that would appear to rule out control of Conrail by either railroad.
33 It sat forlornly in the middle of an arid coastal basin, lacking both a port and a railroad.
34 This year, 1, 000 starter homes are planned east of the railroad tracks.
35 It started with a cross placed along the railroad tracks, where legend has it that he was lynched.
36 With three air-force pilots along for the ride, James flew along a railroad track bordered by tall trees.
37 To be managed by the Federal Railroad Administration, the programme will offer loans and loan guarantees for up to 25 years.
38 Bars had sprung up on South Railroad Street and around the depot, and robberies and brawls were commonplace.
39 Thousands of miles of old railroad lines have been converted to trails.
40 He had attended church, had a family, helped in the underground railroad, fought in the Civil War.
41 You can pick one up near the old railroad station that has been transformed into a visitor center.
42 Heavy rain halted five railroad lines in the Tokyo area.
43 In 1866 he emigrated to Philadelphia, where he painted railway carriages in the workshops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
44 The families and surviving victims were seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the railroad.
45 He was able to go directly to the railroad supervisor and convince him to change the pace of slab deliveries.
46 Stations of the Pennsylvania Railroad were used for picking up passengers and selling tickets.
47 Loops and spurs of railroad track laced it all together.
48 Almost all locomotive firemen were slaves, either hired from slave masters or owned directly by the railroad companies.
49 Navasota grew as it became established as a railroad terminus.
50 Shortly after the rampage, the railroad established a victims fund that raised $ 519, 397.
51 The railroad lost $ 11, 300 in fiscal year 1907-08, Templeton said, and continued to lose ground.
52 The government had long since perceived that the way west depended on the transcontinental railroad.
53 The last boxcar was the railroad guards' heaven on wheels. Sentencedict.com
54 The name was derived from dense mesquite groves that early railroad workers encountered there.
55 In addition to civil aviation crashes, the independent board looks into some highway, railroad, marine and pipeline accidents.
56 James Hogg in 1894 called for creation of the railroad to bolster prison operations.
57 By 1875 Atchison could boast of a railroad bridge spanning the Missouri, a mechanical marvel that turned in order to open.
58 The problem there is that the railroad is so close to the interstate and the traffic lights are controlled by rail traffic.
59 Sixty thousand new acres would even make it worthwhile to run a railroad spur to Los Angeles.
60 By 1901, smelting operations were moved to Douglas, only 25 miles to the east, when a railroad was built.