train-shed

When the train stopped at an important station, the four men walked up and down the cement platform, under the vast smoky train-shed roof, like a stormy sky, under the elevated footways, beside crates of ducks and sides of beef, in the mystery of an unknown city.

Babbit 2004

As he saw it grow small beyond the train-shed he longed to hurry to Tanis.

Babbit 2004

He walked out to the train-shed; a porter came after him with his trunk.

Shallow Soil 2003

They stood in the train-shed beneath the glass vault.

Shallow Soil 2003

There was a rattle of nervous laughter under the low train-shed.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

In New York Cornelius Vanderbilt was erecting a very grand new Grand Central Depot, the train-shed roof of which, an immense vault of glass and iron, would contain the largest interior space in the country.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

The hated early call; the hasty breakfast with coffee-cup in one hand and time-table in the other; the dismal drive through dull, sleeping streets; the cheerless station; the gloomy train-shed with its lines of coaches wrapped in acrid engine smoke.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

It was very early in the morning and the big train-shed seemed all but deserted.

A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

There was an hour's wait at Chicago, and when Janice and her acquaintance left the train together it was to enter a dense throng in the train-shed.

The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

In the train-shed she chanced, seemingly by the veriest accident, upon Snodgrass.

The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott