"rail-track" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1824, Mr Scott, “[Essays on Rail-roads, Presented to the Highland Society.] Methods proposed by Mr Scott for overcoming Ascents on Rail-roads.”, in Robert Stevenson, editor, Prize-Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland. […], volume VI, Edinburgh: […] Arch[ibal]d Constable & Co. […], page 45:",
          "text": "A carriage, such as we have described, could not travel along a railway with single rail-tracks, owing to the axles not being both of one length; […]",
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          "ref": "1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 283:",
          "text": "“If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;⁠—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it.[…]”",
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          "ref": "1886 May 23, T[homas] De Witt Talmage, “[Tabernacle Pulpit: A Monthly Report of the Sermons Delivered by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., from the Pulpit of the Brooklyn Tabernacle.] Duties of Employers to Employees. […]”, in The Brooklyn Magazine, page 54:",
          "text": "In this country the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company; […]",
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        "Archaic form of rail track."
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          "text": "A carriage, such as we have described, could not travel along a railway with single rail-tracks, owing to the axles not being both of one length; […]",
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          "ref": "1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Flight of two Owls”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 283:",
          "text": "“If you mean the telegraph,” said the old gentleman, glancing his eye toward its wire, alongside the rail-track, “it is an excellent thing;⁠—that is, of course, if the speculators in cotton and politics don’t get possession of it.[…]”",
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          "text": "In this country the torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail-tracks in front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like the president of the company; […]",
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