Short Line

Short line or Short Line can refer to:

  • Short-line railroad, an independent railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance
    • Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the popular board game Monopoly, probably named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.
  • Short Line (bus company), also known as ShortLine, a bus operator in New York State, United States
  • Short Line Reading Series, a popular Vancouver literary event presented by Memewar Magazine
  • The Short Line, a section of railroad track owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota
    • Short Line Bridge, part of the track over the Mississippi River
    • "Short Line Road", now known as Ayd Mill Road, a parallel highway
  • Short Line Subdivision (Ohio), a belt line around Cleveland, Ohio, now owned by CSX

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or line:

    “There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “That’s the down-town frieze,
    Principally the church steeple,
    A black line beside a white line;
    And the stack of the electric plant,
    A black line drawn on flat air.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)