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scrap heap en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of scrapheap.
The large double-deck Brush electric cars which replaced steam in 1929 and were the largest passenger-carrying road vehicles in the country, will follow the fixed assets to the scrap heap.
1960 February, “Swansea & Mumbles closure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:Dieselisation saw the withdrawal of Shay engines on the Western Maryland, but No. 6 was rescued from an inglorious demise on the scrap heap, and now rests in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's transport museum in Baltimore, which contains many other interesting railway exhibits.
1956 November, William A. Burke, Jr., “The American "Shay" Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, pages 749, 776:
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