elevated railroad

as in elevated

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Noun
  • The San Diego Association of Governments awarded a $24.6 million contract Friday to Reyes Construction Co. of San Diego for an additional 1.1 miles of secondary railroad track north of Las Pulgas Road on Camp Pendleton.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2025
  • Soon, two of the titans of the age and place — Southern Pacific railroad man Collis P. Huntington and L.A. Times owner Harrison Gray Otis — engaged in a Godzilla-versus-King Kong struggle over where to put L.A.’s official port: Santa Monica or San Pedro?
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Angels Flight announces price hike as iconic L.A. railway becomes latest victim of inflation.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • The Rail Baltica project, designed to link the Baltic capitals with a European-gauge railway from Tallinn to Warsaw, has become all the more important due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, but the delay means that Latvia's share of the project may not be completed before 2035.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
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“Elevated railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elevated%20railroad. Accessed 30 May. 2025.

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