Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar railway car railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
elevated railway elevated railroad elevated el overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
railroad track railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway railroad railroad line railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
upright upright piano | a piano with a vertical sounding board |
upright vertical | a vertical structural member as a post or stake, the ball sailed between the uprights |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
trainman railroader railroad man railwayman railway man | an employee of a railroad |
stand stand up place upright | put into an upright position, Can you stand the bookshelf up? |
upright unsloped | in a vertical position, not sloping, an upright post |
erect vertical upright | upright in position or posture, an erect stature, erect flower stalks, for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression, a column still vertical amid the ruins, he sat bolt upright |
semi-upright | of animals that are partly erect |
good just upright | of moral excellence, a genuinely good person, a just cause, an upright and respectable man |