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• We see that freight railroads make good profits while rendering excellent service.

• The railroads have lost a lot of business to trucking companies.

• The bridge carries the railroad across the river.

• The book discusses the decline of the railroads in the United States.

• It was the worst railroad disaster in Indian history.

• But by the opening decade of the twentieth century the railroads had become victims of their own success.

• Part of the increase in the number of weeks worked and wages earned between 1834 and 1837 was due to new work on the railroad.

• Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.

• This period also witnessed an increase in railroad mileage as well as growth in such industries as timbering, sawmills, and cotton textile mills.

• These three opinions, however, did not complete the transformation with regard to the liabilities of railroads to passengers.

• A want of proper circumspection on their part is liable to produce disastrous consequences to railroad travelers, as well as to themselves.

• Hundreds of blues songs treat the railroad thematically.

• And, before the railroad, travel was difficult enough to preclude any sort of concert circuit of touring virtuosos, even had the demand been there.

• As a similar mediating device, the railroad topic forms an interesting parallel to the crossroads mythology in the blues.

• It would have required millions of dollars and taken many years to develop adequate railroad and highway networks.

• All letters and packages were collected, sorted and distributed in a railway mail car, usually owned by the railroad company that owned the track.

• An answer to that question requires a detailed analysis of the world the workers came from and local perceptions of railroad work.

• So long as the railroad's lawyers tried to argue on traditional property rights grounds, their case was hopeless.

• One of these songs particularly captures the association of the railroad with crossroads mythology by invoking the dilemma of decision-making.

• One could not assume that the purposes of a railroad association were benign.