| 单词 | mountain railroad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain railroad mountain railroad n. U.S. a narrow-gauge railway for transport in mountain regions. ΚΠ 1853 Sci. Amer. 18 June 319/1 Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad. Proposals will be received at the office of the Engineer..for the Gradation and Masonry of 35 miles of the above Railroad. 1893 Science 24 Mar. 155/2 Mountain railroads wind in grand loops and horse-shoe curves around the valleys and up to the passes, making miles of road to gain a few hundred feet in altitude. 1913 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 7 139 Mountain railroads less than twenty miles long..hauling chiefly minerals. 2001 Denver Post (Nexis) 8 Apr. t3 Choose a Swiss Pass... It not only covers the federal railways, it includes most, but not all, of Switzerland's mountain railroads. < as lemmas |
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