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Definition of Short line
1. Noun. A transportation system that operates over relatively short distances.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Short Line
Literary usage of Short line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"Зв(Г) WEST VIRGINIA short line R. CO. 7. BELINGTON & NR CO. et a! ... Action by
the West Virginia short line Railroad Company against the Belington ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This road — a short line between the Bolivian plateau and the Pacific Coast, was
opened to traffic in 1913. Steamship routes are, at present, ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"After the completion of the Huntington short line levee a high water came in ...
This levee, known as the Huntington short line, is thus described in the ..."
4. Early American Poetry: A Compilation of the Titles of Volumes of Verse and by Oscar Wegelin (1907)
"[short line] | 1815.] 8vo. pp. [5]-vi- viii, [i], 2-30 and leaf containing
printer's name and name of place of issue. [London.] PECK, JOHN. ..."
5. The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways: An Analysis of the by Arthur Mellen Wellington (1887)
"On the contrary, it would be hard to put the general rule which should govern
action about obtaining a short line in a simpler and safer form than to say ..."
6. Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States by Frederick Albert Cleveland, Fred Wilbur Powell (1909)
"A fifth transcontinental road was formed in 1884 by the junction at Huntingdon
of the Oregon short line and Utah Northern with the Oregon Railway and Navi- ..."
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