railroad track
Locomotive's steel road
Railroad track is the paired metal rails on which trains run, along with the wooden ties and gravel bed that support them.
Often shortened to simply track: The train jumped the tracks.
The phrase also refers to the path or route a railroad follows: We walked along the old railroad tracks to the river.
- clickety-clackRhythmic mechanical noise
- steel railsMetal track for locomotives
- permanent wayRailway's fixed structure
- ballastShip stability material
- whistle stopSmall rural station
train whistle · train · crosstie · locomotive · iron horse · sleeper · standard gauge · freight train · tie · line · wrong side of the tracks · hobo jungle · caboose · station · platform · freight yard · junction · steam
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, locomotive, locomotives
- trackstire tracks, tank tracks, bear tracks, train tracks, paw print
- Corridorshighway, canal, sidewalk, street, freeway
- paved surfacespavement, asphalt, concrete, tarmac, blacktop
- steel thingsstainless steel, carbon steel, rebar, I-beam, girder
- Victorian inventionstelegraph, steam engine, phonograph, typewriter, light bulb
railroad trackhighway
Major road for travel
road · freeway · motorway · waterway · shipping lane
railroad trackopen road
Unobstructed route ahead
open water · open field · airspace · open sea · wilderness
track, road, rail, railroad, railing, railway, railroads, railed, railwayman