Ship Yard
Encyclopedia
Ship Yard is a rail yard
on the Richmond District in Richmond, Virginia
. It is just east of Triple Crossing
. Ship Yard is not often used for putting together trains, but is more for storing empty cars, especially boxcars.
Rail yard
A rail yard, or railroad yard, is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading/unloading, railroad cars and/or locomotives. Railroad yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic....
on the Richmond District in Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
. It is just east of Triple Crossing
Triple Crossing
Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is believed to be the only place in North America where three Class I railroads cross at different levels at the same spot....
. Ship Yard is not often used for putting together trains, but is more for storing empty cars, especially boxcars.