Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard or railroad yard is the US term for a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives. Railroad yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic. Railroad cars are moved around by specially designed yard switchers, a type of locomotive. Cars in a railroad yard may be sorted by numerous categories, including railroad company, loaded or unloaded, destination, car type, or whether they need repairs. Railroad yards are normally built where there is a need to store cars while they are not being loaded or unloaded, or are waiting to be assembled into trains. Large yards may have a tower to control operations.

Many railway yards are located at strategic points on a main line. Main line yards are often composed of an Up yard and a Down yard, linked to the associated railroad direction. There are different types of yards, and different parts within a yard, depending on how they are built.

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Railyard

by: Phideaux

There is light at the edge of a shadow
It's a glow that you might not detect
It's like gold at the tail of a rainbow
A treasure you can not collect
Friends I am calling, I want to be near
All that I have is in you
There is night at the edge of each morning
It is day that will always come through
It is life in mid-act of forming
Like a wish that can only come true
Friends I am falling but I feel you near
All that I learn is from you
Memory calling and focusing clear
What I now see is through you
There's a train at the end of the railyard There is a
train at the end
It is standing abandoned alone coming to you my friend
The vines are graffiti are growing the vines have
finally grown
The words have found their home
There's a star at the end of Creation
It seems very far and alone
Quasar is pulsing
The heart is still beating
Hope against hope to come home
Gravity's shrinking, it's floating away
Far, far from this place
Gravity take me and pull me away
My body to space




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