Definition of railroad line Railroad line
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What does railroad line mean?
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| railroad line - line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | ||
| railway, railroad, railway line, railway system | ||
| line acting in conformity; "in line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line" | ||
| cable railway, funicular, funicular railway a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | ||
| cog railway, rack railway railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction | ||
| elevated, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway, el a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | ||
| metro, subway system, subway, underground, tube an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'" | ||
| monorail a railway having a single track | ||
| rail any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud | ||
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