I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
railroad crossing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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There is also an 1830 Conestoga wagon, an observation platform of a railroad car , and a replica of a Tepee.
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Viktor is ready to give up his apartment and sleep in a railroad car .
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Hundreds of railroad cars were burned by strikers.
company
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The first was the battles of various railroad companies to enter cities.
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One day a man from the railroad company brought a steam drill to the crew.
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Almost all locomotive firemen were slaves, either hired from slave masters or owned directly by the railroad companies .
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But transcontinental status always brought a classical rush to the head of railroad companies .
line
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Lay my head on the railroad line , Train come along, pacify my mind.
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Within a few years, railroad lines bridged the nation, moving people and goods into unsettled territories.
station
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You can pick one up near the old railroad station that has been transformed into a visitor center.
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The search often wound up back at a railroad station bench.
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As they marched from the railroad stations , they were escorted by crowds cheering vociferously.
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He was trying to locate a railroad station where he could leave us to continue on our journey.
track
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With three air-force pilots along for the ride, James flew along a railroad track bordered by tall trees.
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They rode in the rickety wagon across the prairie until they reached a railroad track .
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It started with a cross placed along the railroad tracks , where legend has it that he was lynched.
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We bounced over the railroad tracks in Fresno and hit the wild streets of Fresno Mextown.
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Until he found his goal in life, hammering spikes into the railroad tracks , he was not fully happy.
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On the southeastern corner of the property, one final slim reminder: a sweeping curve of railroad track .
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Loops and spurs of railroad track laced it all together.
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We moved to Willing Street then, by the railroad tracks .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a railroad track
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the Southern Pacific railroad
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1901, smelting operations were moved to Douglas, only 25 miles to the east, when a railroad was built.
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Even though shelters were emerging, it was like the underground railroad .
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History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.
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I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
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The railroad took its sweet time arriving.
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The last boxcar was the railroad guards' heaven on wheels.
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Trains passing through the Anapra gap are now monitored by private security and railroad police.
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War-time controls were removed; railroads and shipping returned to private corporations.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This complex proposal should not be railroaded through Congress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was not about to be railroaded by some impatient young woman.
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He would never forget the day Wilkes shot her boyfriend, a railroading man, wounding him only superficially.
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I knew that they was going to railroad me.
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The company that gets Conrail would dominate eastern railroading.
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The Sunset Limited is an old name in railroading.