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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.
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.
Another hump yard with 64 tracks was added in 1968, followed by a diesel locomotive shop in 1971, and a railroad car shop in 1974. In 1980, the 1948 hump yard was replaced with a new 50-track yard. [9] In 1995, as a result of its massive size, the yard was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest rail yard in the world. [9]
A and B cars can seat 60 passengers comfortably, and under crush load, carry over 200 passengers. [2] B cars have no operator's cab and are used in the middle of trains to carry passengers only. However, since each car is self-propelled, the B cars do have hostler controls allowing manual control as single units at low speeds inside a yard. [7]
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There are also many yards operated by the New York City Subway system. See List of New York City Subway yards. CSX Transportation and New York & Atlantic Railway own and operate freight yards in the city. Furthermore, there are rail yards on property owned by the city of New York, but leased to freight railroads including New York New Jersey Rail.
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. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the subsidiary Long Island Rail Road , the 26.17-acre (10.59 ha) yard sits between West 30th Street ...