freight yard

freight yard (plural freight yards)

1. A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 85:

     We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.

   • 1971, Steve Goodman (lyrics and music), “City of New Orleans”:

     Passing trains that have no names
     Freight yards full of old black men
     And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

• goods yard