steel rails
Locomotive guidance bars
Steel rails are the metal tracks on which trains run, forming the foundation of railroad systems.
The phrase often evokes railroads as cultural or economic forces—the expansion of the frontier, industrial progress, or the romance of train travel.
In folk and blues music, steel rails symbolize departure, longing, or the pull of distant places: I hear those steel rails calling me.
- railroad tieTransverse track beam
- rail trackMetal path for trains
- sleeperOne at rest
- rolling millMachine for shaping metal
- hoboItinerant without fixed address
clickety-clack · train whistle · lonesome whistle · lonesome · Bessemer process · heat treatment · gandy dancer · forging · welding · iron horse · casting · gauge · transcontinental railway · cross country · railroad expansion · locomotive · freight train · junction
- trainstrains, train, locomotive, locomotives, steam locomotive
- railway trackstrack bed, rail bed, railbed, trackbed, ballast
- tank obstaclestank trap, anti-tank mines, dragon's teeth, concrete blocks, tetrahedrons
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
- paved surfacespavement, asphalt, concrete, tarmac, blacktop
steel railsdirt roads
Unpaved travel surfaces
open sea · airways · highways · paved roads · gravel paths