Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Railway tracks.
- noun The right of one railroad company to use the track system of another.
- noun The charge for this right.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The collective tracks of a railway.
- noun A drawing or towing, as of a boat on a river or canal; haulage; towage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
- noun (Railroads) Lines of track, collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
railway tracks collectively - noun The
right of a railway company to use the tracks belonging to another; thecharge levied for this right - noun The act of tracking, or
towing , as aboat ;towage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Philadelphia, a Broad Street Subway includes demonstrate trackage for most of its length.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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They made money if the railroad chose to let its freight traffic absorb all the ancillary costs of supporting infrastructure: trackage, maintenance facilities, signaling, accounting, and so on.
Amtrak Provides a Valuable Public Service, or Maybe Not 2011
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In Philadelphia, a Broad Street Subway includes demonstrate trackage for most of its length.
Was the lack of express tracks a lack of foresight? - Greater ... admin 2009
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For example, the new Northstar line in Minneapolis follows existing trackage which rarely is near enough to any freeways to encourage developers to develop office space along it.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Commuter Rail Numbers Don’t Even Work With the Supporters’ Numbers 2009
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The trackage, especially between Philadelphia and DC., is not exactly to TGV standards in France, to say nothing of the prime lines in Japan.
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Southern which runs both the Island and the Fraser Valley trackage between New westminster and Chilliwack has been under pressure to dispatch Via the other way in cooperation of the public.
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Pennsy took advantage of lower labor and material costs, and it had the traffic base on this trackage to make it profitable.
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A canal system, or railway trackage or a national highway system are all worth borrowing for.
John Tepper Marlin: I.O.U.S.A. - Fury at (GOP) Fiscal Fiasco 2008
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Tim is modelling the CNJ Bronx Terminal – a yard in about an acre with no connection to other trackage except via car float.
Wordly Wise 2008
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Tim is modelling the CNJ Bronx Terminal – a yard in about an acre with no connection to other trackage except via car float.
Trackwork 2008
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