1.   An elderly man hobbled off to fetch water from a communal spigot on the other side of the rail yard.

2.   And the train electronically alerts the rail yard whenever a part needs maintenance.

3.   And then they are gone, vanishing into the subway or melting into the gray of nearby rail yards and empty streets.

4.   Around them are beautifully decrepit rail yards and wrecked industrial sites in an ocean of emerald foliage.

5.   As part of the development, park officials will restore the natural landscape by turning a former rail yard into habitat for nesting birds.

6.   At an appearance at rail yard here Wednesday, Whitman strongly denied any impropriety.

7.   At a rail yard there, union engineers are refusing to cross picket lines, forcing some supervisors to drive trains, Greene said.

8.   Boston, by contrast must truck any cargo to the Allston rail yards for it to be shipped by rail.

9.   A once bustling rail yard in St. Albans, Vt., used to be staffed by customs officers.

10.   Abandoned factories and rail yards, not glittering office towers, dotted the waterfront.