"Railroad construction" refers to the process of building railways or train tracks to create a transportation network for trains to travel on. Full definition
Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, called this redundancy the «maddest specimen of railroad construction of which» he had ever heard. (businessinsider.com)
Damasio's central narrative involved the strange case of Phineas Gage, a 19th - century railroad construction foreman whose skull was pierced by a metal spike during an explosion. (discovermagazine.com)
On Sept. 13, 1848, Gage, who worked in railroad construction, was setting an explosive charge with a tamping iron when the gunpowder detonated, rocketing a metal rod up through the roof of his mouth, into his left frontal lobe and through the top of his skull. (discovermagazine.com)