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Definition of Elevated railroad

1. Noun. A railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elevated Railroad

Literary usage of Elevated railroad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"Union elevated railroad Co.. 258 111. 352 [101 NE 577. Ami. Cas. 1014B, 572. 45 LRA (NS) 167], and Geohegan v. Union elevated railroad Co., ..."

2. Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917 by James Blaine Walker (1918)
"CHAPTER IX THE GILBERT elevated railroad AND THE RAPID TRANSIT ... after the New York elevated railroad Company had taken over the Harvey elevated road in ..."

3. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1911)
"Under the leases with the various operating companies, the Union elevated railroad Company receives one-half of one cent for every paying passenger carried ..."

4. The Truth about the Trusts: A Description and Analysis of the American Trust by John Moody (1904)
"In April, 1899, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company leased the Brooklyn Union elevated railroad Company, the terms being $100000 per annum and • fixed ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"A statutory prohibition against an elevated railroad In a city street except ... An elevated railroad viaduct to run through the sites of great numbers of ..."

6. The Theory and Practice of Modern Framed Structures, Designed for the Use of by John Butler Johnson, Charles Walter Bryan, Frederick Eugene Turneaure, William Spaulding Kinne (1910)
"elevated railroad BENTS 28l is transmitted through the track to the road-bed ... elevated railroad Bents.—Transversely, an elevated railroad bent is similar ..."

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