Is it wrong to say ...?

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Apart from transporting timber, coal and such like primary industrial raw materials, railroads had been rendered practically useless.

I doubt if the above usage is correct. What do you think?

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I'm not a native English speaker but I've seen this construction for a long time.

You can find many examples on the internet, like this one you can use about trains:

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Apart from transporting a variety of payloads quickly and safely, they offer numerous important advantages

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But ...

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Apart from transporting timber, coal and such like primary industrial raw materials, railroads had been rendered practically useless.

But in my quotation, the idea expressed is negative...

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Sure, but it is an opinion.

I do think otherwise, trains (railroads) are not at all useless..

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Francis is right . . . "apart from" is a common and acceptable English usage.

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fansy wrote:

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Apart from transporting timber, coal and such like primary industrial raw materials, railroads had been rendered practically useless.

But in my quotation, the idea expressed is negative...

Rules of grammar don't have any requirement that the idea being experessed be of a positive nature. There is nothing wrong with expressing a negative idea.

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