freight yard

See also: freightyard

English

Noun

freight yard (plural freight yards)

  1. A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 85:
      We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.
    • 1971, Steve Goodman (lyrics and music), “City of New Orleans”:
      Passing trains that have no names
      Freight yards full of old black men
      And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

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