How to Use railhead in a Sentence

railhead

noun
  • The group was in the process of returning to the railhead at the conclusion of a three-day trip when the incident happened.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • They are flanked by armored bunkers and fortified weapons-storage areas, as well as airfields and railheads that link the octagons to the Hami silos.
    Reuters, NBC news, 29 May 2026
  • The project's next critical juncture is the awarding of contracts and start of shipments to the Central Valley railhead.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Immediately after the Civil War, Smith said, cowboys drove millions of longhorns from southern Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipment to northern markets.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Getty Images The effort is coordinated with the nearing completion of the southern railhead in Kern County—a 150-acre staging yard set to serve as a logistics base for installing track components directly along the route.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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