railhead
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈreɪlˌhɛd/
- Specialized
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punto de carga
- West and Parsons noted that the economy of the area ebbed and flowed with mineral strikes in the mountains because so many of its inhabitants were engaged in the transportation of ores brought down by pack mule to the railhead.
- railhead, 12.4 miles
Examples
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To reach the hiking trail, we drove to the railhead where the tracks end.
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You want I should ride to the railhead?
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Only 12 of us at that railhead at Paulding.
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The decline in tank support for ever-longer approach marches from the railhead also restricted their utility.
Academic text (2010) -
WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THE REST OF THE HORSES TO THE RAILHEAD.
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[Davis] Later that afternoon, Geronimo, his band of renegades, and all the Chiricahua that had served the army so faithfully were loaded into wagons and transported to the railhead at Holbrook.
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If we are only using trucks for short-distance hauling from the railhead, then either electric vehicles or biofuel-powered vehicles are presently available technologies. It is the long-haul problem where they presently come up against hard limits, but with an electrified rail grid, the long-haul problem is not a problem.
Blog text (5) -
The construction crew reached the railhead after months of work on the new railway line.
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The mining operation was located just beyond the railhead, allowing easy transport of materials.
Synonyms
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6.9
The final station at the end of a bus or train route
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Railhead is made from the words rail (a metal bar that makes train tracks) and head ('end' or 'top'). So a railhead is the 'end of the rails', the furthest point reached by the tracks.