"profitable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even though the Reading was never again to regain its powerful position of the 1870s, it still was a very profitable and important railroad.
- This made railroads less efficient and also less profitable because intercity rail's great comparative advantage was in moving goods over long distances.
- Mr. Tellier guided Canadian National through a transformation from a government-owned corporation into one of North America's most efficient and profitable railroads.
- These are no longer private, profitable railroads operating in interstate commerce.
- Our private and profitable railroads may be the only successful deregulated industry, and the Surface Transportation Board's first major merger decision was correct.
- It was reputed to be the most profitable railroad in the world at the time.
- This made the railroad very profitable, while also allowing a steady flow of money to help with construction cost.
- By 1933 the railroad, never profitable, ceased operation and was dismantled, and in 1939 the Hagan Mine closed down.
- Louisiana Railway & Navigation operated a marginally profitable railroad between New Orleans, Shreveport and Dallas.
- With fellow director Jeremiah Milbank (1818-1884) he built the Milwaukee Road into one of the most profitable railroads in the United States.
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