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adv. Via a train.
Usage examples of "by rail".
But they were headed on a course that would expose them to more cave entrances that might be guarded by rail guns.
Furthermore, it will take tens of thousands of man hours to dismantle it and move it by rail and unload it for the sole purpose of letting it rust in depots.
They stopped for a moment to watch Proteg6 workmen and Chosen engineers assembling armored cars from crated parts sent up by rail.
Filmer spoke to him, his voice obliterated, as far as I was concerned, by rail noise, and went back into his room.
This isn't as cheap on a per mile basis as pumping it through a pipeline, but it is certainly superior to transporting it by rail from Baku or Ploiesti.
All they knew was that they were SS-19-type launchers, the new improved version thereof, and that they'd left the factory by rail.