railroad companies
Freight rail businesses
Railroad companies are businesses that own and operate rail transportation systems, moving freight or passengers by train.
In American history, they were among the first large corporations, wielding enormous economic and political power in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term often carries connotations of industrial-era capitalism: The railroad companies bought up the land before settlers arrived.
- rail tracksSteel paths for trains
- right of wayLegal passage privilege
- transcontinental railroadsTrain routes crossing continents
- carbon emissionsReleased greenhouse gases
- high-speed railFast passenger trains
maglev trains · mergers · train stations · subsidies · Pullman cars · dining car · boxcar hobo · labor strikes · industrial revolution · privatization · steam engines · train whistle · whistle stop · colonial expansion · passenger fares · land grants · robber barons · noise pollution
- colonial enterprisescolonial governors, crown colonies, British Empire, British colonies, Spanish colonies
railroad companiestrucking companies
Freight transportation businesses
airlines · shipping lines · shipping companies · owner-operators · courier services
railroad companiessmall businesses
Independently owned, limited-scale companies
railroad, companies, rails, roads, railed, railing, railings, roadway, roadways