freight yard
noun1
A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
- We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 85:
- Passing trains that have no names Freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles1971, Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans”:
- Synonyms
- goods yard