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Overview from a Freedom residential neighborhood Conway Yard alongside Ohio River. Conway is the only remaining large operation of the four early-20th century PRR yards. NS processes 90,000 to 100,000 cars per month (as of 2003). The site occupies 568 acres, with 181 miles (291 km) of track and a storage capacity of over 11,000 cars and is a ...
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line , so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic.
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Oak Point Yard - The second largest yard in New York City (after Sunnyside Yard) and the largest freight yard. Owned and operated by CSX Transportation, the yard supports Hunts Point Cooperative Market. Harlem River Intermodal Yard - Intended as an intermodal yard as part of the Oak Point Link, but mostly used for waste handling.
The Yards represent a microcosm in changes in American railroads over the course of the 20th century. The Southern Railway Company first established the complex, as early as 1911, as a turntable rail yard. The roundhouse (1925) was once used for assembling and servicing trains and, as offsite warehouses were introduced, it was later adapted for ...
The yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard's two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot (10 m) tall mound, and the westbound hump is 20 feet (6.1 m) high. These are used to sort four cars per minute into one of the 114 "bowl" tracks -- 49 tracks for the westbound trains, and 65 for eastbound. [1]
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) built the yard in 1905 with two hump classification yards. [2] Initially, the yard processed 7,000 cars per day. The westbound complex had a 20-track receiving yard and 25 classification tracks; the eastbound, a 21-track receiving yard and 17 classification tracks. There were no separate departure yards. [1]