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:

    “The right road lies under your tongue—just ask.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)