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railroad terminal

n. terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods [syn: railway station, railroad station, train station, train depot]

Usage examples of "railroad terminal".

It would destroy the railroad terminal half a dozen blocks from the City Hall and play hob with the water system, water fetched clear from the State of Arizona.

Lee, but an underwater compartment that is carried across two oceans from China and then shifted under a barge for a voyage up a Louisiana bayou to a railroad terminal in an abandoned sugar mill may get you an award for literary fiction, but it won't score you any points with pragmatic minds.

But the derelict home that Ryan and the others had chosen was off the main drag, near the edge of the ville, some way off from the railroad terminal.

He groaned as he thought of the agony of packing a bag and slinking for the Western express through the crowds at the railroad terminal.

A Springfield fired once and a figure fell from the crenellated brick tower at the end of the railroad terminal.

The only sounds that reached his ears were the noises of the railroad terminal: chugging of locomotives, the scrape of shifting cars, the occasional pacing of feet outside the window.

He stood in what he figured was a predark railroad terminal, with dozens of platforms, glittering steel rails stretching away into the distance.

The railroad terminal was across the Via Praetoriano, and beyond that monument of nineteenth-century architecture rose the tired old seven hills, with the ancient Forum and Colosseum hinting at the glory that was Rome.