DCHP-2

end of steel DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a

  the farthest point to which railway service extends; the terminus of a railway.

  See also: head of rail  head of steel (def. 2)  railhead (def. 1b)  steel (def. 1)  

• 1b

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

  See also: head of steel (def. 1)  

• 2

  a community at the end of a railway line.

  See also: end-of-steel town