In discussing various stylings of "Loop" and "L" in "Destination Loop: The Story of Rapid Transit Railroading in and around Chicago" (1982), author Brian J. Cudahy quotes a passage from "The Neon Wilderness" (1947) by Chicago author Nelson Algren: "beneath the curved steel of the El, beneath the endless ties." Cudahy then comments, "Note that in the quotation above ... it says 'El' to mean 'elevated rapid transit railroad.' We trust that this usage can be ascribed to a publisher's editor in New York or some other east coast city; in Chicago the same expression is routinely rendered 'L'."