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Car repair yard or maintenance yard, for freight cars. Engine house (in some yards, a roundhouse), to fuel and service locomotives. [1]: 58 Transfer yard, a yard where consists are dropped off or picked up as a group by through service such as a unit train, but managed locally by local switching service locomotives.
Conway Yard (also known as Conway Terminal) is a major rail yard located in the boroughs of Conway, Pennsylvania, and Freedom, Pennsylvania, 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River. It was the largest freight yard in the world from 1956 until 1980.
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, 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.
The Barstow Yard extends above the town of Barstow for almost 5 miles (8.0 km) along the Mojave River and occupies an area of about 600 acres (240 ha). Following the flow of traffic, the track systems of the flat station are divided from west to east into the following track groups: the arriving freight trains are directed into the entry group (approx. 10 tracks) in the west; the mainline ...
The area's developers in 2017 chose to call it the Rail Yard Innovation District as a homage to rail's role in making Green Bay an early transportation hub and as a nod to the variety of ...
Intermodal freight transport uses standardized containers, which are handled by cranes. Along their routes, freight trains are routed through rail yards to sort cars and assemble trains for their final destinations, as well as for equipment maintenance, refueling, and crew changes. Within a freight yard, trains are composed in a classification ...
Union Pacific employs more than 2,600 people in North Platte, [1] most of whom are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Bailey Yard. An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day. The yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard's two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot (10 m ...
Each of the successive railroad fields had six tracks in the entry group, 21 in the directional harp, and six in the exit group; the total track length of the classification yard was about 50 km. [2] In 1914, over 200 trains passed through Galesburg daily, 130 of which were freight trains.