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railroad line

n. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system [syn: railway, railroad, railway line, railway system]

Usage examples of "railroad line".

In truth, though, there was less of natural beauty to contemplate each time he drove north, from the Rock to Stock Island, to Boca Chica with its naval air station, across a procession of bridges that followed an old railroad line, into the Lower Keys.

Greenfield know that the change in the railroad line was contemplated?

I wired an even sneakier railroading man called Jay Gould about sneaky plans to run yet another railroad line through these parts.

At a dugout near the railroad line Zeb saw a huge bull struggling, half through a roof, saw it plunging to escape the trap, then vanish.

Curving up from these prime defenses the northern shoulders (close to the Wolfheze railroad line) were held by men of Major Boy Wilson’.

And with bold strokes Paul outlined what he thought should happen: Let the federal government authorize one solid railroad line from Wilmington due south to the tip of Cape Charles.

The railroad line from the little mining town to the capital of Sonora was no crow.

Descending the thirty or so miles of serpentine railroad line&mdash.

Descending the thirty or so miles of serpentine railroad line—.

When the railroad line was torn up back in '49, Wacketshire gave up and died.

They wanted a cautious landing in the rough Atlantic surf at Casablanca, on the outer bulge of Africa, connected to the key terrain only by a single rickety railroad line.