short line
a bus or rail route covering only a limited distance.
Origin of short line
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How to use short line in a sentence
And two of those pricey railroads were never accurate: B&O never serviced Atlantic City, and there is no short line.
Fidel Castro Hates Monopoly & 12 More Reasons to Love It | Caroline Linton | February 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe system, called “We The People,” will be a petition portal on WhiteHouse.gov and is billed as a short line to the Oval Office.
Three passenger carriers of the Northpolar short line reported crashed.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | VariousI'm sorry, but you can't learn operative railroading at the expense of this management on the Pioneer short line.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeEvery time he spent an evening at the major's he'd come back with a lot of new notions for popularizing the short line.
The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
The editorial, commenting on the wire stuff, was sharply critical of the short line management.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeThe simplest thing is for me to throw up the job and let the short line drop back into the old rut.
The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
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