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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.
The West Side Yard, between Penn Station and the Hudson River, as it appeared before the Hudson Yards real estate development project broke ground in 2012.. The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City.
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
J.R. Davis Yard looking southwest, c. 2019 J.R. Davis Yard is a railway hump yard in Roseville, California owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.It is located along the confluence of three of the railroad's lines: the Martinez Subdivision heading southwest to the Sacramento Valley, the Roseville Subdivision which runs over the Sierra Nevada Mountains into Nevada, and the Valley Subdivision which ...
The Galesburg Yard is a classification yard of the BNSF Railway south of Galesburg in Illinois.It dates back to a goods and classification yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), which from 1905 developed into one of the largest classification yards in the USA.
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 ...
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Godorf Station, Cologne, Germany A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, and the former Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard used to accumulate railway cars on one of several tracks.