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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.]
Railroad
Railroad 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.

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- lost. Munden p.630 Railroaded at silentera.com The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:Railroaded Connelly, Robert B....
- The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom s****ers, to escape to the abolitionist Northern United...
- city. Railroads not only increased the speed of transport, they also dramatically lowered its cost. For example, the first transcontinental railroad in the...
- positions in the inland water trade and invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry, effectively transforming the geography of the United States....
- Railroad. Viking. pp. 114–115. ISBN 0-670-80889-X. White, Richard (2011). Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. W.W. Norton &...
- Poor's Intermediate Manual of Railroads. New York: Poor's Manual Company. 1917. pp. 928–946. White, Richard (2011). Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and...
- A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries)...
- Angel Maturino Reséndiz (August 1, 1959 – June 27, 2006), known as The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders...
- largest railroad classification yard in the world. The route of the original transcontinental railroad runs through the state. Other major railroads with...