train tracks
Locomotive's metal road
Train tracks are the parallel steel rails on which trains run, mounted on wooden or concrete ties.
The phrase often evokes railroad crossings, walking along tracks, or the dangerous practice of placing objects on them.
Metaphorically, train tracks suggest a fixed path: Her career was on train tracks from the start.
Track marks from intravenous drug use are sometimes called train tracks.
- tiesConnections or neckwear
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- clickety-clackRhythmic mechanical noise
- sleepersUnactivated spies or surprise hits
- parallelEquidistant at all points
spikes · steel · ballast · cross ties · switch · freight · freight yard · iron horse · bridge · hobo code · gauge · level crossing · conductor · commuter · express lane · depot · platform · station
- NYC infrastructuresubway, sewers, water mains, streets, sidewalks
- rail yardsswitchyard, marshalling yards, receiving yard, yard crew, yardmaster
- transitbus, subway, metro, buses, public transit
- trackspaw print, hoof print, footprint, footprints, spoor
- railway tracksrails, steel rails, railbed, trackbed, ballast
- Silent Filmsilent films, silent era, silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton
train trackshighway
Major road for travel
road · freeway · motorway · interstate · paved road
train tracksopen road
Unobstructed route ahead
open water · open sky · open sea · unmarked trail · wilderness
train trackswaterway
Navigable route for vessels
shipping channel · air corridor · flight path · sea lane · river
train, track, rail, railroad, tracks, railing, railway, trains, railed