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Granger roads   Listen
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Granger roads, Granger railroads  n.  (Finance) Certain railroads whose traffic largely consists in carrying the produce of farmers or grangers; specifically applied to the Chicago & Alton; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; and Chicago & Northwestern, railroads. (U. S., obsolescent).





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"Granger roads" Quotes from Famous Books



... attacked it with his eyes open, as he did most things; and he was not without a suspicion that President Colbrith, of the Pacific Southwestern, had known to the full the hopelessness of the mountain line when he dictated the letter which had cost one of the great Granger roads its assistant engineer in charge of construction, transferring an energetic young man with ambitions from the bald plains of the Dakotas to the snow-capped shoulders ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde


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