hump yard

In many European countries they are also equipped with a hump yard.

It is a double-ended hump yard with a 32-track classification bowl.

Cow-calf sets are used in heavy switching and hump yard service.

It features a 70 track classification hump yard, several support yards and servicing facilities.

The original marshalling yard was replaced by a new structure further south, consisting of three hump yards.

However unlike later hump yards it was built without automatic retarders to slow the rolling wagons down.

In 2003 NS announced plans to resume hump yard operations.

Typical locations of gravity yards are places where it was difficult to build a hump yard due to the topography.

The eastbound hump yard was installed with semi-automatic operation.

The marshalling of wagons is done by a hump yard fitted with mechanical retarders.

In 1940, they finished the construction of the main eastward sorting station called Khabarovsk-2 with a fully mechanized hump yard.

As concerns speed regulation there are two types of hump yards: without or with mechanisation by retarders.

CSX operates a number of large classification yards around the system that include "hump yard" operations.

The marshalling yard's hump yard is closed.

Notably, in Europe, Russia and China, all important classification yards are hump yards.

In a hump yard, special signals may control the speed of trains propelling vehicles towards the hump.

Large freight car hump yards are also scattered throughout the BNSF system.

Remote control locomotives e.g. "switchers" in hump yards may be controlled by a stationary operator.

The latter part of that decade also saw CNR begin development of a major railway hump yard in the city's west end.

There are three types of classification yards: flat-shunted yards, hump yards and gravity yards.

Harrisburg was a strategic spot on the railroad route with a large hump yard, making it the focal point for the most productive coal field operations.

BNSF operates hump yards in several cities:

Gravity yards also have a very large capacity but they need more staff than hump yards and thus they are the most uneconomical classification yards.

As is popular in large hump yards, slugs are used in Clearing Yard to shove the hump.

Next were a series of 21 locomotives for New York Central Railroad and its subsidiaries for hump yard work.