street-track

Updated: June 23, 2025

All eyes were directed down the long street upon a line of cars that had been shunted on the street-track; about these moved a group of men in blue uniforms, the sun flashing on their bayonets and the brass shields of their belts. Oliver, stirred by the sound, climbed to the top of the awning-post for a better view and clung to the cross-piece.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Fortunes of Oliver Horn