Classification yard - Wikipedia
A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.
North America's hump yards | Trains Magazine
2024年12月4日 · Today there are 36 active hump yards operated by the big six Class I systems and terminal and switching railroads. That’s down from 59 in 2002, 72 in 1993, 122 in 1985, and 152 in 1975. Yet hump yards, which use gravity to classify freight cars, remain enormously important to the carload network.
Hump Yard in ACTION at BNSF's Northtown Yard! How It Works, …
Hump Yards use gravity to help automate, and speed up the process of switching and sorting railcars. In this video, we'll get an in depth view as to how they work, function, and are an asset to...
Hump day is every day at BNSF - BNSF Railway
2021年10月11日 · For BNSF, hump day is every day at our eight hump yard facilities that help us sort and group freight cars destined to arrive at specific locations. Hump yards, also known as classification yards, are generally segmented into three parts: the receiving yard, the classification bowl and the departure yard.
List of rail yards - Wikipedia
These are important marshalling yards for the formation of freight/goods trains, and/or with a large volume of traffic, and/or with a very extensive track systems; including classification yards, hump yards, freight handling yards, and intermodal (container) terminals.
Current hump yards in North America - Trainorders.com
Since this is frequently brought up topic, the following are the current hump yards in North America: The following are: 1. Active yards. Most are large with 30 or more tracks, but the mini humps have less than 20.
Railroad Classification Yard Technology: A Survey and …
Railroad Classification Yard Technology; A Survey and Assessment; Yard Design; Operational Procedures; Hump Yards; Flat Yards; Train-Terminal interaction Document 147_DOT-TCS-FRA-76-35_ntl.bts.gov-lib-50000-50500-50540.pdf (16.94 MB)
Rail yard - Wikipedia
Hump yards and gravity yards are usually highly automated and designed for the efficient break-down, sorting, and recombining of freight into consists, so they are equipped with mechanical retarders (external brakes) and scales that a computer or operator uses along with knowledge of the gradient of the hump to calculate and control the speed ...
Rail yard basics - Trains
2023年2月8日 · Gravity-switched yards — also called “hump yards” — are more expensive to build and maintain, but they can be more efficient. In a gravity yard, a locomotive shoves inbound cars up a man-made hill.
What Are Hump Yards? – Traingeek – Trains and Photography
A hump yard is an artificial hill in the middle of a train yard. Cars are pushed up the hill and uncoupled at the top, and they roll down by themselves onto a preselected track to join other rail cars to form trains.