elevated railroad
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of elevated railroad
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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In places, the trail runs atop an old elevated railroad bed, part of an iron mine that flourished here in the 1800s.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
Inspired by New York's Highline, a garden built on an elevated railroad, and Berlin's Prinzessinnengarten, a reclaimed wasteland, a Stockholm neighborhood has turned a disused railway into a communal space for hundreds of amateur gardeners.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2016
It called for forty-foot stone arches to be built throughout the city to carry elevated railroad lines.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
So it is that below the thick arch of elevated railroad tracks and the rumble of Metro-North trains, the area around 126th Street and Park Avenue still resembles a giant, beat-up storage shed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2012
On rare occasions we would go all the way over to the East Side to the market stalls under the elevated railroad tracks.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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