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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A group of connected railroad tracks used for storing and sorting railroad equipment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
Etymologies
- rail + yard (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ratner has offered the MTA tens of millions of dollars in added inducements such as railyard improvements to persuade the nation's largest mass transit system to sell him the property.”
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“I was reading it after it first came out and an army buddy asked about it - he'd worked on the railroad, and he recognized the railyard key hanging from Cassady's belt in the cover photo.”
“We jolted to a stop, an attendant pried the door half open, and we stumbled out into a high-ceilinged, man-made chamber that housed a railyard for miniature ore trains.”
“Max Whittaker/Prime for The Wall Street Journal Locomotive inspector Juan Schulz, examining a locomotive at a railyard in Roseville, Calif., has worked at Union Pacific for 17 years.”
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“Firm CEO Bruce Ratner told the Wall Street Journal the money would be used a new railyard (which the developer is obligated to build) and perhaps to pay off a land loan.”
“Only by redefining the "project" as the arena, related infrastructure, and the railyard, with a cost of $1.448 billion -- and attaching the railyard to already funded components -- does the risk to investors seem diminished.”
“Carting along her son and her big 4x5 camera, with its heavy tripod and stacks of sheet film, Kurland has climbed mountains and braved railyard guards to follow and document her "Gypsy American nomads," as she describes the people she's photographed.”
“Just as he plans a railyard robbery with Bronco, he enters into a touching relationship with the 15-year-old Irene, whose father is serving time for armed robbery.”
“The "project" also involves already-funded infrastructure and a yet-to-be built railyard.”
“Just north of this complex is a big freight railyard that is slowly being covered by slabs that will be ultimately the ground floor of parks, housing, offices etc.”
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