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A rail yard is a large area where trains and their cargo are assembled, stored, and serviced. Example: "The train slowed down as it approached the rail yard where dozens of freight cars were lined up on multiple tracks."
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rail yard
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A complex of branching railway lines and other infrastructure in which locomotives and rolling stock are stored and rearranged.
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A former rail yard has become Millennium Park.
Kearny rail yard was surrounded by floodwaters.
Mary Parisen said life alongside the Fresh Pond rail yard in Glendale, Queens has become unbearable.
The rail yard in North Platte is the largest in the world.
It is sparsely populated, with vast empty expanses broken by the occasional ranch or rail yard.
Or should they join a march of the homeless to a nearby rail yard?
They are adjacent to the east rail yard, which is closed to the public.
The rail yard is for freight and would be even larger and active around the clock".
Behind our rooming house was a long black rail yard, going off to Stanley and Bingham.
The city's old rail yard, now a farmers' market and cluster of boutiques, is nearby.
Seeing the buildings rise from the rail yard makes each Hudson Yards meeting feel very purposeful.
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