What is "across the tracks"

Usage examples of "across the tracks".

Running across the tracks, he dropped his rifle and struck a match.

There was a saloon in a log house, and across the tracks there was a spanking-new hotel three stories high with a porch along the side fronting the rails.

Occasionally little bridges of soot were left across the tracks, showing that the apex had at these spots been lifted up.

They had come across the tracks of the goblins who had attacked a few minutes before and were following closely behind, otherwise they would have missed the Duke's party as the night's storm obliterated all tracks of the men from Crydee's passage.

And he let go a long, sprayed burst before he sprinted across the tracks, forcing enough of the Confederates to duck that he made it to the shed safe.

They crossed over a makeshift bridge of iron slabs laid across the tracks, past open darkness and screeching trains, and ran into a flood of exiting passengers.

He rolled over onto his belly and began to crawl across the tracks - away from help, toward the third rail, the power rail.

Finally he popped out again, closed the door behind him, paused only to admire the skill with which a portion of the tiling in the tunnel had been utilized as a door, then went on across the tracks.

That was when he came across the tracks of a party of four or five Ronin.

This puts the two of them, and all of their luggage, on a narrow covered bridge that leads across the tracks and into the terminal building.

He won't remember running across the tracks or scuttling under a fence and taking off with his arms flapping and his breath coming fast.

I went up into the lead engine, and I saw how much snow is piled across the tracks up ahead, and it’.

Holding the cat in one arm, Roosevelt moved his light across the floor, up the steel post, across the tracks above us.

He came to a stop in a cloud of dust, flat on his back, on the railroad right-of-way, one arm across the tracks.