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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 RAILROAD from wikipedia
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management of
railroads. The
leading American innovators were the
Western Railroad of M****achusetts and the
Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in the 1840s,...
- The
Underground Railroad was used by
freedom s****ers from
slavery in the
United States and was
generally an
organized network of
secret routes and safe...
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Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (1993),
Railroad Tycoon II (1998),
Railroad Tycoon 3 (2003), and Sid Meier's
Railroads! (2006).
Railroad Tycoon was
written by game...
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Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a
railroad primarily operating in the
Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic
regions of the
United States. The
railroad primarily...
- (CSXT)
First Coast Railroad (FCRD) (GWI)
Florida Central Railroad (FCEN)
Florida East
Coast Railway (FEC)
Florida Gulf &
Atlantic Railroad (FGA)
Florida Midland...
- The
following railroads have been
known as
Western Railroad or
Western Railway:
Western Railroad Company,
builders of a Heavener,
Oklahoma to Waldron,...
- The
Union Pacific Railroad (reporting
marks UP, UPP, UPY) is a
class I freight-hauling
railroad that
operates 8,300
locomotives over 32,200
miles (51...
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Florida Midland Railroad or
Florida Midland Railway may
refer to:
Florida Midland Railway (defunct), a
former railroad byp****ing
Orlando to the west Florida...
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shortline railroad is a
small or mid-sized
railroad company that
operates over a
relatively short distance relative to larger,
national railroad networks...
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major railroad hub) and is
published monthly by Simmons-Boardman
Publishing Corporation. The magazine's
original title was the
Western Railroad Gazette...
