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railroad siding

n. a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass [syn: siding, turnout, sidetrack]

Usage examples of "railroad siding".

That means we got to get high behind getting this whiskey packed up and loaded onto them dray wagons so we can haul it to that railroad siding.

Sergeant Hayward descended a long metal staircase, opened a narrow door filmed in brown rust, and stepped out onto an abandoned railroad siding.

There were streaks of rust all over the sides and tall weeds growing in cracked concrete and along a railroad siding that was one of the chief reasons we were looking at the building.

He had his drawing-board in his lap and resting on the table, and with a T-square and triangle he worked at a design for a new railroad siding.

He lifted the window of the coach and leaned out, searching the road bordering the railroad siding.

The troops that lined the railroad siding presented arms as the first train departed, twenty minutes before that of the President.

He pointed at a gloomy, brick warehouse with blackened windows and closed doors standing at the end of a dock and overshadowed by a larger warehouse on one side, with a railroad siding and an iron bridge spanning a canal on the other.

What the hell is a division of the Soviet Army doing asleep on a Goddamned railroad siding while men are dying in Germany!