Converse of object

• build: Examples include building a railroad, or a factory, clearing land, or putting oneself through college.

• run: It is no way to run a railroad, or we suggest, a police service.

• use: Although the text used is in the American form of the English language - e.g. using the word railroad instead of railroad!

• have: We already have a nascent global underground railroad of sorts, thanks partly to mobility within the communion.

• cross: Take the first right turn past the factory: after about 500m you will cross a railroad.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• through: This has led to crisis year after year where cuts have been proposed and railroaded through.

Adjective modifier

• transcontinental: Want to create a race to complete a transcontinental railroad in 30 years using only steam engines?

• underground: Link The Underground Railroad Curious about how slaves escaped?

• American: Thursday 16 February 2006 North America Ian Lothian A selection of slides of North American railroads.

• great: The bank is as necessary to the thrifty farmer as it is to the greatest railroad or the most wide-spread trust.

• first: America's first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, used the 4 foot 8.5 inches standard.

• new: Materials for the new railroad were brought in on the River on Thames barges ironically utilizing waterpower for the new railroad.

Modifies a noun

• ty: Would you believe that they are now going to ban railroad sleepers ( railroad ties )?

• enthusiast: This rare archive steam footage was lovingly captured on 16mm film by the famous American railroad enthusiast, Harry P. Dodge.

• track: Walk down the track, to the old railroad track.

• bridge: A short walk from the hotel is a railroad bridge you can walk on that gives a magnificent view of the river Eden.

• station: The world's longest railroad station name is in Wales.

• yard: It began to rain, so they went to a box car in the railroad yards.

Noun used with modifier

• island: River explorer was island railroad company paul on the.

• gage: Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, this narrow gage railroad is an International Historic Civil Engineering landmark.