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n. A complex of branching railway lines and other infrastructure in which locomotives and rolling stock are stored and rearranged.
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A rail yard, railway yard or railroad yard is the US term for a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives. Railroad yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic. Railroad cars are moved around by specially designed yard switchers, a type of locomotive. Cars in a railroad yard may be sorted by numerous categories, including railroad company, loaded or unloaded, destination, car type, or whether they need repairs. Railroad yards are normally built where there is a need to store cars while they are not being loaded or unloaded, or are waiting to be assembled into trains. Large yards may have a tower to control operations.
Many railway yards are located at strategic points on a main line. Main line yards are often composed of an Up yard and a Down yard, linked to the associated railroad direction. There are different types of yards, and different parts within a yard, depending on how they are built.
Usage examples of "rail yard".
She had not expected to find him, but here he was, near the rail yard where she had become his wife in every sense of the word.
Looking at his doomed car, then at the parade of armored vehicles coming up from the rail yard, he decided that this was more than they could handle.
The rail yard and boat yards are the damnedest messes you've ever seen.
That old man from the Oklahoma City rail yard, he said the 'Nazis' traveled by train, right?
A rail yard that used to run alongside the mill was restored by the Chinese.
It had to block public access to the entire rail yard, excepting only normal—.
But I did run across a mention of them in a dispatch log from the Germantown rail yard where there was a switch of locomotives.
The train was down to a crawl now and half the container cars had passed into the project rail yard beyond the security station.
And they were off across the street and by the small rail yard, its floodlights now out, towards the looming hulk of the temple.
How was it you traveled from the operating room in a Durban hospital to the Pembroke rail yard so quickly?
A work train loaded with construction materials was pulling away from an expansive underground rail yard with the tracks converging at the main tunnel entrance that Mancuso judged was four meters in diameter.
Since access was controlled from the gate, the rail yard, and the private entrances like Sonet Riathen’.