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:
“It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May
Although it fall and die that night;
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,—to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,—almost any timber will give way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)