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The foundation of a train track on which ties, ballast, etc. rest.

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Usage examples (25)
  • That northern railbed cuts right thru the heart of Zalev.
  • Extent of the rail network and condition of the track/railbed in the area of operations.
  • Approaching the train from behind, he grabbed ahold of it, then set down on the railbed.
  • The railbed was built up because the fields on the one side and the bottomland on the other are really the same piece of geography, flood plain.
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