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  • noun Plural form of railbed.

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Examples

  • While Obama proposes to build highways (with some runways and railbeds thrown in), and the national GOP continues to say "no," what are local politicians doing?

    Craig K. Comstock: What Kind of Jobs? 2010

  • Brent Hayes of Athens County, Ohio, has made big profits by purchasing abandoned railbeds and reselling the land.

    Thinking Outside the Stocks 2010

  • Starting out as a program to convert unused railbeds to bike paths, rails to trails is now an advocacy group for bike paths in general.

    rails to trails 2008

  • While Obama proposes to build highways (with some runways and railbeds thrown in), and the national GOP continues to say "no," what are local politicians doing?

    Craig K. Comstock: What Kind of Jobs? 2010

  • Starting out as a program to convert unused railbeds to bike paths, rails to trails is now an advocacy group for bike paths in general.

    tingilinde: 2008

  • Western countries could help repair railbeds and build new highways for a country with only 460,000 miles of paved road.

    How To Help Gorbachev 2008

  • In addition to figuring out how to grow food with less energy we need to start moving to higher ground, especially railbeds.

    Vancouver port plans big spending for expansion « Stephen Rees’s blog 2008

  • In good condition, the corridor appealed to Rails to Trails because its bridges and railbeds remained completely intact, Noble said.

    www.the-daily-record.com's Homepage Articles 2010

  • That also gets millions to work rebuilding America's 19th Century railbeds.

    Wheels 2009

  • For another, light-rail cars can operate in the streets as well as in railbeds; diesel cars can't.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2009

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