What is "trainyard"

Usage examples of "trainyard".

Neither was the railroad trestle going over to the trainyards at the end of Neibolt Street or the Old Cape housing development - low bluffs and red sandstone outcroppings of rock bulged out of thick stands of giant fern and pine trees where the Old Cape should have been.

Beyond them another chainlink fence divided the trainyards from the Barrens.

Other Saturdays the Church School would be shut up and silent and he would ride out to the trainyard without stopping, out to where Neibolt Street ended in a parking lot with weeds growing up through the cracks in the asphalt.

If anything about the trainyards scared Eddie, they did - men with unshaven cheeks and cracked skin and blisters on their hands and coldsores on their lips.

It was almost like a comment on the trainyards themselves: DEAD END, it read.

Up ahead of them, in the trainyards, a diesel engine revved slowly up, faded off, and then began all over again.

The street had declined with the trainyards, and as Bill and Richie moved farther along it, the houses became farther apart, seedier, dirtier.

I cut him off out on Witcham Street by the trainyards and got out with my Winchester rifle.

It had a happy ending, of course, although it was undoubtedly that moment of despair on the edge of the trainyards which children remembered long after the happy ending had slipped their minds.

There are machine shops, factories and shipyards, as well as the trainyards, that are now being built in the new South.