was railroading

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of railroad.
  railroad

  noun

  a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.

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was railroading

Shouting and waving their arms, Gilbert and Soss demanded a full debate on the two points, charged that Young was "railroading" the meeting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two weeks later, far from dead and hoping to see his sweetheart, Gomez was railroading in a gondola car with some of Villa's dynamiters.

From Time Magazine Archive

While he was railroading he would wear a jumper, thank you!

From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather

It was railroading which had brought me West; but I had brought with me the Alabama money to put into ships.

From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer

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