Usage of The Terms Railroad and Railway - A Road

A Road

In the context of railways or railroads, a road is a single track, which may be part of a multi-track system or an isolated line.

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Famous quotes containing the word road:

    “At sundown, leaving the river road awhile for shortness, we went by way of Enfield, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference, it seemed to me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Much as I own I owe
    The passers of the past
    Because their to and fro
    Has cut this road to last,
    I owe them more today
    Because they’ve gone away....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)