Sentences with phrase «down rail yards»

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There was the time, less than a month later, when Mr. de Blasio, as a centerpiece of his State of the City address, announced a plan to build an affordable housing complex on a Queens rail yard — and Mr. Cuomo, within hours, shot it down.

Then the containers are dispatched from the rail yards alongside the harbor onto 1,200 diesel - powered freight trains that ferry goods up and down the coast, and 35,000 semi tractor - trailers that speed along heavily congested highways to the rest of the country.

You have to admit though it is a wonderful piece of political population entrainment; I have mental images of large cattle yards with high, heavy railed fences that squeeze the cattle down to single file for their last moments.