How to Use railroad bridge in a Sentence

railroad bridge

noun

• The site’s name is adopted from a 1916 arched railroad bridge that spans the East River.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• Flooding of the Big Sioux River caused a railroad bridge to Iowa to collapse.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• At the railroad bridge over the creek the town had built a dam to maintain the water table in the municipal wells near by.
  — Don Holm, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Thomas Viaduct is the first multi-span masonry railroad bridge built on a curving alignment in the United States.
  — Molly Fellin Spence, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2024
• Abby posted a photo to Snapchat of the girls crossing the railroad bridge shortly before they were killed, police said.
  — Joe Sutton, CNN, 29 June 2023
• Portions of a freight train are seen in the Yellowstone River after an overnight railroad bridge collapse.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 26 June 2023
• Experts say those forces could have made the railroad bridge more unstable and contributed to its collapse.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• River flooding took out a railroad bridge in the state and caused the partial collapse of the Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 25 June 2024
• The railroad bridge became misaligned due to a hit from barges being transported by a towboat called Mauvilla.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The low-hanging railroad bridge has become a frequent obstacle for semi drivers over the years.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2024
• Celebrating the completion of a new railroad bridge, for example, could be the occasion for a group of politicians and engineers in suits and derby hats to slaughter a sheep.
  — Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2014
• The flyover ramp replaces a street-level interchange from southbound I-75 to westbound I-74 that included a sharp curve and traveled under a railroad bridge.
  — The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2024
• Flooding in the Midwestern U.S. collapsed a railroad bridge and tested a dam Monday after days of heavy rains that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued from rising waters.
  — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
• Beginning construction in April, the railroad bridge over San Juan Creek is set to be demolished and replaced with a new structure, causing potential delays for rail commuters and shuttering a nearby bike trail.
  — Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
• Listen to this article A railroad bridge collapsed during flooding in the Midwestern U.S. that has forced water rescues, led to evacuations, caused at least one death and brought additional misery during a vast and stubborn heat wave.
  — John Hanna, Twin Cities, 24 June 2024
• Separating it from the Truesdell affair are four railroad bridge incidents, including another in Illinois.
  — John O'Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024