Definition of Railroad

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Definition of Railroad
	Railroad To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress. Alt. of Railway Related Definitions: Alt, As, At, By, Bill, Carry, Fig, Great, Haste, High, Hurry, In, Of, Or, Put, Railroad, Railway, Rush, Send, Speed, Through, To, Unduly

Railroad Quotations

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
Les Paul

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
David R. Brower

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
James Stockdale

I bought a railroad during this period of time.
Bill Janklow

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
Mary Harris Jones

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.
John Sherman Cooper

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
John Moody

Railroad Translations

railroad in Danish is jernbane
railroad in Dutch is spoor, spoorweg
railroad in Finnish is rautatie
railroad in French is chemin de fer, trajectoire
railroad in German is Eisenbahn
railroad in Italian is orbita, ferroviario
railroad in Portuguese is estrada de ferro, ferrovia
railroad in Spanish is ferrocarril

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