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switchyard
n. Part of a railway with an arrangement of switches (or points) allowing trains to be diverted and reassembled.
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Switchyard
Switchyard may refer to:
- Railway Switchyard
- Electrical substation
Usage examples of "switchyard".
The train was stopped on a siding outside the Klamath Falls switchyard, a stretch of track that ran straight as an avenue between ranks of tall spruce, and as Billy walked alongside it, peering into the open boxcars, he noticed a number of peculiarities.
He went to Dayton with me, ‘preciated what I tried to do for his buddy and even stole two chickens when we laid over in some switchyards somewheres and got us a fine meal.
Marino sullenly smoked out his window, cold air washing in as he watched abject apartments scarred with graffiti and miles of switchyards draw us into a lit-up skyline of a modern city.