WordNet
n. an electric elevated railway [syn: elevated railway, el, overhead railway]
Usage examples of "elevated railroad".
Here he would drink a mug of beer and dine off the vast buffet, the only tariff, as it were, the expected twenty-five-cent tip to the waiter, which insured the solid clientele of New York's most sumptuous bar against the hordes of hungry dangerous men who lived beneath the elevated railroad along Sixth Avenue a block away.
He might get run down by a street car, or an automobile, or be hurt in the subway, or on the elevated railroad.
The same post office- volunteer firemen's building, the same elevated railroad tracks, several wood-frame churches, surrounding farmland.
He stumbled and looked up as he came through entangled alleyways, and there was a line intersecting his path, nightblack arches that even Toros eyes could not see into, the brick and the dorsal crest of the elevated railroad.
When I reached the avenue the force of air suddenly changed directions as it swept under the tracks of the New York Elevated Railroad line, which ran above either side of the street just inside the sidewalks.
They had started an elevated railroad in New York, on Ninth Avenue, and the American-made pianos, Steinway and Chickering, had startled the world by winning first prizes at the Paris Exposition.
They were now on a narrow, elevated railroad-trestle like abutment fifty feet above the metal ground.
In one place a canal flanked by an elevated railroad seemed to cut right through a complex that could have been a school or a hospital.
Several pentagonal panels for the exterior of the dodecahedron were hanging from an elevated railroad track.
His eyes were fixed on the vanishing figure of the Girl Friend, who, having buzzed at a smart pace into Sixth Avenue, was now legging it in the direction of the staircase leading to one of the stations of the Elevated Railroad.