elevated rail
Raised urban transit
Elevated rail is a railway system built on raised tracks above street level, typically supported by columns or viaducts.
The design keeps trains separate from road traffic and pedestrians while avoiding the cost of underground tunnels.
Cities like Chicago and New York feature historic elevated rail lines, often called the el or the L: We took the elevated rail downtown.
- monorailSingle-beam transit vehicle
- tracksMarks showing passage
- train platformStation boarding surface
- platformRaised flat structure
- commuterOne who travels regularly
rush hour · station · overhead · public transit · transit · train · viaduct · concrete · pillars · urban · urban landscape · Chicago · skyline · rumble · city noise · steel · passengers · thunder
- trainstrains, train, locomotive, locomotives, steam locomotive
- rail systemsmetro, subway, monorail, streetcar, tram
- transitbus, subway, train, metro, buses
- rail transitsubway, metro, tram, train, trains
- electric railelectric train, electric locomotive, subway, metro, tram
- transportationcar, bus, airplane, train, plane
elevated railsubway
Underground transit passage
metro · tube · underground · underground railway · streetcar
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