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There is a tendency (a very, very small correlation so don't beat me up!) for a RailWAY to have some sort of British input in its history, while the term RailROAD is more specifically USA. Frequently it doesn't work, but consider the Chicago & North Western Railway. Prior to its assumption by UP about ten years ago, the road used moveable semaphore signals, the trains ran on the left, and it had had a great deal of British capital put into it in the late 19th-early 20th Century. Metra trains operated by UP out of Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center (previously Chicago & North Western Station) still run on the left. [;)] I just learned today that the (Atchison, Topeka &) Santa Fe RailROAD changed its name to . . . Railway in 1895. Could that have been due to some kind of rescue by English capital following the New York bank panic and recession of 1894? No way could I predict that, but Santa Fe followers might want to answer this one...[?] Both railway and railroad are perfectly acceptable American English, though outside the USA it is railway almost all of the time. [:)]
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