elevated trains

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After it had passed the ridges east of the Connecticut valley, its top could be seen for a long and unusual period over the elevated ranges.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

However this may be we have to consider what the effects of moisture increasing in the atmosphere of Mars will be with regard to the visibility of elevated ranges,

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

Efflorescences of the sulphate of alumina exist in a calcareous cavern in the elevated ranges of Bellevieu, in the county of Washington, Mo. No practical use is made of it.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

This vast range has acquired, from its rugged and broken character and its summits of naked granite, the appellation of the Rocky Mountains, a name by no means distinctive, as all elevated ranges are rocky.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington

It inhabits the elevated ranges of Ladakh, and is found in Baltistan, where it is called the oorin.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage