: the wheeled vehicles owned and used by a railroad or motor carrier
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The royalty was certainly not enough for Hancock who was keen to develop his own mines, investing heavily but unsuccessfully in ventures that included an attempt to ship iron ore to Romania, taking payment in railway rolling stock which turned out to be sub-standard.—Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026 Transit agencies and freight carriers want lighter rolling stock to cut fuel use.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026 The projects will include replacing and upgrading railroad tracks, track infrastructure like ballast and rail ties and maintaining rolling stock.—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 29 Jan. 2026 Officials have not yet announced the project's total cost, rolling stock suppliers, or specific environmental safeguards.—Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rolling stock