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Definition of Rail line
1. Noun. The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed.
Specialized synonyms: Branch Line, Spur, Spur Track, Trunk Line, Trunk Route
Terms within: Railroad Bed, Railroad, Railroad Track, Railway
Generic synonyms: Road, Route
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rail Line
Literary usage of Rail line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"This being done, the rail line may be drawn' in plan, by projecting its points
of intersection with the buttock lines just drawn, down on to the same lines ..."
2. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"... rail line for general freight business and passenger traffic, now under
construction, ... Proposed 12oo-Volt Third-rail line in California. ..."
3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"A third-rail line for general freight business and passenger traffic, now under
construction, is illustrated and described. ..."
4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1908)
"A third-rail line for general freight business and passenger traffic, now under
construction, ... Proposed laoo-Volt Third-rail line in California. ..."
5. Railroads, Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1912)
"The distance from New York to Denver via water to New Orleans thence rail to Fort
Worth is 3155 miles, against 1940 miles by the direct all-rail line, ..."
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