shortline
Small regional railroad
A shortline is a small railroad operating over a limited route, typically connecting rural areas or industrial sites to larger rail networks.
Shortlines often run on track abandoned by major carriers: The grain elevator ships via the local shortline.
The term also applies to short-haul trucking operations covering regional routes.
freight
Goods being transported
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- spurIncentive or heel device
- branchlineSecondary railway route
feeder · regional · switching · haulage · boxcar · tanker · hopper · gondola · caboose · trackage
- rail transportfreight train, train stations, passenger train, commuter train, express train
- diesel locomotiveslocomotive, diesel engine, diesel-electric, GE, General Electric
railroad scale/reach
shortlinetranscontinental
Spanning an entire continent
transcontinental railroad · trunk line · mainline · Union Pacific · through line
short, line, shorter, shortest, shorten, shortened, shortening, shortly, shortness