I never see a truly straight track.
High-speed trains are for countries with long distances and straight tracks between stops.
The train pounded on along straight tracks, balloons bursting every time it picked up speed.
One observer stands alongside a straight track; the other rides a train moving at constant speed along the track.
The real challenge is in the track: high speeds need relatively straight tracks and lots of land.
Tyson Gay's speedy dash along Manchester city centre's Deansgate earned him the 200m world best on a straight track yesterday.
"So far, he's only raced on straight tracks, so now he's going to race round a left-hand bend," Noseda said.
His effort was a record on a straight track, but it is not recognized as an official world mark because track and field's governing body recognizes only the 200 run around a curve.
But he has been coming to Pannington Hall Lane, this isolated spot outside Ipswich, for 40 years to photograph passing trains on the relatively exposed, straight track, and wouldn't want to lose it.
My first encounters with the Arctic were on submarines, unhindered by sea ice, that could sail the long, straight tracks favored by geophysicists, making 16 knots all day long.
Students should be sure that each big hill, steep drop, corkscrew, loop-de-loop or straight track is justified with factual evidence gathered during the research portion of the assignment.
