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Meanings of railroad siding in English

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A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.

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Usage of railroad siding in English
1
The circus train had been sent for, and occupied a long railroad siding.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
2
It was a huge area, subdivided into a dozen pens along the railroad siding.
The skin trade
3
William and Viola strolled through the garden from the railroad siding to join them.
The devil she knows
4
This is a group of logs, at a railroad siding.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...
5
A gang of laborers was engaged in moving the timbers back from the railroad siding.
Calumet "K"
6
A warehouse with a railroad siding.
Boston noir
7
Portia tucked her arm through his and began to stroll toward their private railroad siding, a wedding present from her grandfather.
The devil she knows
8
He was a dealer in coal and lumber and owned a number of unpainted sheds facing a railroad siding west of town.
Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories
9
He would grunt as her father did when at evening he came home from the little hot office by the railroad siding.
Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories
10
Down below in the valley, on the railroad siding, lay the special train that had brought most of the guests from New York that morning.
Together
11
Getting in he drove away into the darkness over the bridge, out of Turner's Pike and along a street lined with factories and railroad sidings.
Poor White: A Novel
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