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:

    “You have been here only a short time, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity that permeates these walls, especially this chamber.”
    —Richard Matheson (b. 1926)

    “There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)