switchyard

Updated: April 30, 2025

A man without a few failin's is like underclothes without trimmin', useful but uninterestin', and and then, John, he's one of them fussy little men who's always puffin' around and never doin' nothin' worth while, just like a little engine in a switchyard that snorts and puffs and makes a lot of noise pullin' a dump-wagon.

Elizabeth Cooper - Drusilla with a Million

And the deep distinctive ruts were changing to a complex pattern, like the rails in a city switchyard. She picked out the track of the one motor car that had been through here recently. It was marked with the swastika tread of the rear tires. That track was her friend; she knew and loved the driver of a car she had never seen in her life. She was very tired.

Sinclair Lewis - Free Air