Turnout
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A short side-track on a railroad which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on the main track; a siding. Philadelphia v. R. Co., 133 Pa. 134, 19 Atl. 356. See Railroad. Turnouts and switches, in an act providing that a railroad company may build such without altering its charter, relate to tracks in the nature of side tracks, adjacent to and used in connection with another line of track, tant objective point; Memphis v. R. Co., 183 Fed. 529, 106 C. C. A. 75. '