The word 'railroad' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a transportation system consisting of tracks, trains, and associated equipment (e.g., train stations), especially for the transport of cargo or passengers. Example sentence: "The railroad system in this region is extremely advanced and efficient."
Had the bosses realized that they were in the transportation business, rather than the railroad business, they could have moved into trucking and air transport, rather than letting other companies dominate.
Myers said there are also plans to repurpose a few of the life-sized figures for a new exhibit on the Underground Railroad, a clandestine pre-war network that transported slaves from the South to freedom in Canada.
Born a slave in Maryland, she fled the brutality of the fields in 1849 before finding finding fame as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, helping her family - and hundreds of other slaves - to freedom in the North.
"The president wants the authority to railroad through Congress to sign the agreement even before Congress," explains Wallach, saying it delegates congressional authority to the president.
It follows the railroad to death – whereas The Bridge follows it back to life.
What if the underground railroad had been constantly under efforts of penetration by the United States government on behalf of slavery?
Yet Labour has never been so close to America, says Matt Browne of Global Progress, a think-tank in Washington, DC.In this section Tescopoly no more The Labor Party Working on the railroad How to tame a Trojan horse Testing, testing Glass half empty ReprintsMr Miliband is a case in point.
It reminds Utahns of the transcontinental railroad, completed in Utah with a golden spike in 1869.
CSX, a railroad-holding company, DuPont, a chemicals company, Ryder System, a Miami transport company and FedEx, a delivery firm, are among those companies requiring divisional managers to sign off on their accounts.
Critics argue that the business is riddled with conflicts of interest because the raters are paid for their work by the bond issuers, rather than by investors who actually use the ratings (a change from old railroad-bond days).
Take the Sierra Railroad – created in 1897 to connect the Central Valley to the Gold Country – which crosses a section of the Sierra Nevada foothills, and the Napa Valley Wine Train, a restored 1915 Pullman train car, through the region's beautiful wine country.
