end-of-steel town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a community at the end of a railway line.

Quotations

1912

An end-of-steel town is a wicked place.

1913

An "end of steel" village is made up of booze, billiards, and belles.

1960

For several glorious months [Aurora] was the end-of-steel town and the future looked very rosy.