"ride the rails" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "rode the rails",
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    },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1935 May 13, “Gas Man's Trial”, in Time",
          "text": "He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956 December 19, Phyllis Battelle, “Poor Commuter's Life Not So Dreadful After All”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2009-05-11",
          "text": "Many of New York's most celebrated personalities hitch-hiked here, or rode the rails from wherever it was that they spent their youth dreaming ambitiously.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 April 4, Susan Stellin, “J.F.K. by AirTrain: Bag the Bus”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-05-11",
          "text": "There are a number of variables in the trip from Manhattan that you should weigh when deciding whether to ride the rails ($7 to $12), hop a bus ($13) or spring for a taxi (roughly $45, with toll and tip).",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To travel by railway train, trolley, etc."
      ],
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        [
          "railway train",
          "railway train"
        ],
        [
          "trolley",
          "trolley"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To travel by railway train, trolley, etc."
      ],
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  "word": "ride the rails"
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          "ref": "1935 May 13, “Gas Man's Trial”, in Time",
          "text": "He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1956 December 19, Phyllis Battelle, “Poor Commuter's Life Not So Dreadful After All”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2009-05-11",
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      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To travel by railway train, trolley, etc."
      ],
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