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Example sentences for: railroads

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One of the best examples was the completion of America's transcontinental railroads in the nineteenth century.
Railroads preceded settlers into many parts of the United States, and every few miles a siding had to be built so that trains could pull off the track and wait for others to pass.
For the last eight months coal miners in the east, who haven't received a paycheck for nearly a year, have stopped working and blocked railroads.
The changes now going on have their analog in the last century, when technological innovations of the day like railroads, telegraph, and steam power—developed for purposes far afield of retail, apparel, or textiles—helped transform the mass distri-bution of goods and information.
The new infrastructure created by the railroads and telegraph contributed to the growth of wholesale houses.