Where mountains were climbed thirty years ago, one will now find them bored by tunnels; where sharp curves were necessary before straight trackage only will be encountered today.
Its trackage and equipment compared favorably with similar systems, and most of its extensions and branches had been wisely planned and had proved profitable.
But that was before the day of the competitive motor-buses and the improved highways that now parallel almost every mile of its trackage and for which, as a heavy taxpayer, it has contributed rather liberally.
That not only releases those cars to the Pennsylvania railroad for line service but, by saving the platform trackage which these cars demanded, increases in a really great measure the capacity and efficiency of this freight-house.
But let us turn our attention from trackage to terminals and for the moment consider the chief city of western New York--the chief in size at any rate, Buffalo.
This would make a well-balanced and compact group, fairly competitive and yet accomplishing great economies in the common use of trackage and terminals.
There is abundant trackage upon the other two sides.
Remember, if you will, that for more than a decade there has been no main line trackage laid down east of Pittsburg or Cleveland.
I indulge in no such wild day-dreams as that of all the railroadtrackage of southern New England being operated by water-generated electric power.
It is enough here to say that eventually it obtained trackage rights from Philadelphia to Jersey City over a combination of certain lines of the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
Syracuse Northern, whilst from Fulton into Oswego the Ontario & Western was most glad to sell trackage rights.
It is this continuous demand for increased mileage and trackage in the United States, to say nothing of equipment, that differentiates the problem confronting American railway management from British.
We have enoughtrackage in our yards and sidings to double track all the British railways, with enough over to put four tracks where they have only two tracks now.
Peoria--see Sedgwick; ten--make trackage contract with T.
There has never been a shadow of doubt touching our trackage rights on the C.
Obviously, they could not tax further the trackage in France, though the trains and engines shipped had essential measurements to conform to the French road-beds, so that interchange was easy.
Just behind the docks is a plexus of railway-lines which, what with incoming and outgoing tracks and switches and side-lines, contains 200 miles of trackage in the terminal alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trackage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
