rail yards
Locomotive parking lots
Rail yards are areas where railroad cars are sorted, assembled into trains, stored, or maintained.
They contain multiple parallel tracks connected by switches, allowing cars to be shuffled between trains heading to different destinations.
A classification yard sorts freight cars; a coach yard handles passenger equipment.
The locomotive coupled to its cars in the rail yard before departure.
- freight trainsRail vehicles carrying cargo
- locomotivesPowered rail vehicles
- steam enginesBoiler-driven mechanical power sources
- iron horsesPoetic term for locomotives
- marshalling yardsRail freight sorting areas
sidings · freight cars · roundhouses · train tracks · tracks · rolling stock · turntables · carriages · switchyard · shunting · brakemen · retarders · dispatchers · train · signal towers · boxcars · coal cars · loading
- warehousingwarehouse, warehouses, fulfillment centers, fulfillment center, distribution centers
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, manufacturing plant, manufacturing plants
- public transitbus, train, subway, metro, tram
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- freight logisticscargo trains, shipping containers, freight cars, customs clearance, cargo handling
- Civil War transportrailroads, trains, wagons, locomotives, horses
rail yardspassenger station
Transit boarding facility
train station · railway station · passenger terminal · depot · terminal
rail yardsseaport
Coastal city with docks
freight terminal · shipping port · harbor · container port · airport