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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.
Handcar (US) A handcar A small, hand-powered railroad car used for track inspection Heavy rail (US) A city-based transit rail system that runs on its own dedicated track and often underground. Subways are considered heavy rail. Refers to commuter rail and inter-city rail when used by the FRA or in other countries. [132] [133] Heavyweight (US)
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.
Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...
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 ...
View towards the southwest of the tracks of the exit group, which enclose the directional harp (48 tracks) on the west side. In 1995, the BN merged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form today's BNSF Railway (Burlington Northern Santa Fe), which expanded the Galesburg Yard several times due to its importance for the newly created network, while retaining the existing layout of ...
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