DCHP-3

end of track

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the most recently laid tracks of a railway under construction; the farthest point to which tracks have been laid.

See: end of steel(def. 1b),head of steel(def. 1)

Quotations

1884
A number of leading citizens of Calgary waited on Inspector Steele last Monday evening on the eve of his departure to End of Track, and presented him with a neat casket containing a cigar case and match receptacle.
1923
The "end of track," by this time, had reached Regina. . . .