Sentence examples for railroad network from inspiring English sources

Large sections of the railroad network shut down.

A comparatively large railroad network was established during the last half of the 19th century.

The bank helped reorganize the nation's chaotic railroad network during the late 1800's.

Investigators say the ministry bypassed safety regulations in its haste to create the world's largest high-speed railroad network.

Along with other wealthy Russian Jewish families, he also financed the building of much of Russia's railroad network.

Throughout the country the construction of a railroad network beginning in the 1840s increased commerce and gave rise to subsidiary industries.

In the sense of risking physical damage because of an overload, power networks may most closely resemble early railroad networks.

Taken together, the blackout and the worm underscore a far-reaching challenge in managing modern technological societies: the difficulty of reaping the benefits of networks -- railroad networks, airline networks, telephone networks, power networks and computer networks, among others -- while minimizing their vulnerabilities.

In many ways, the railroad industry is a century ahead of the telecommunications sector: All of the wild claims made in recent years about vast new fiber-optic networks, for example -- that they would transform commerce and rewrite the rules of economics -- were made about the telegraph and railroad networks of the mid-1800's.

In "River of Shadows," her book about the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit writes about how the development of new technologies in the nineteenth century — railroad networks, telegraphy, photography — was routinely referred to by the stock phrase "annihilation of time and space".

Railroad networks can be modelled as directed graphs.