A large outdoor area or facility where freight trains are assembled, sorted, and loaded or unloaded before shipment.
From 'freight' + 'yard' (an enclosed or outdoor work area). Compounds of 'yard' with cargo-related words are common in transportation vocabulary.
Freightyards were the beating hearts of industrial cities—the noise, steam, and organized chaos of a rail freightyard was like watching the city's economic arteries pump goods to the whole nation.
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