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Elevated railroad   /ˈɛləvˌeɪtɪd rˈeɪlrˌoʊd/   Listen
Elevated railroad

noun
1.
A railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level.  Synonyms: el, elevated, elevated railway, overhead railway.





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"Elevated railroad" Quotes from Famous Books



... side. Still more soldiers, leaning against the walls or seated with their legs stretched out across the bottom of the ditch; more waiting soldiers, only strung out in a line and as used to the passing of shells as people living along the elevated railroad line to the passing of trains. They did not look up at the screams boring the air any more than one who lives under the trains looks up every time that one passes. Theirs was the passivity of a ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer


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