A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English...
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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...
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Kijfhoek classification yard is a hump yard type freight rail yard between Rotterdam and Dordrecht in the Western Netherlands. The rail yard is named...
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Bailey Yard is the world's largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America...
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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...
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Cedar Hill Yard Cedar Hill Yard is a classification yard located in New Haven, North Haven and Hamden, Connecticut, United States. It was built by the...
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Albany. The yard is owned by CSX Transportation and is its major classification yard for the northeastern United States and the gateway to points east...
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MacMillan Yard is the main Toronto-area railway classification yard for Canadian National Railway (CN), and is located in the nearby suburb of Vaughan...
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The Argentine Yard is a classification yard of the BNSF Railway in Kansas City, Kansas. With 60 directional tracks and an area of over 3 km2, it is the...
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C Yard, formerly consisting of 72 classification tracks. D Yard, former railcar repair shop area. Partially taken over by the diesel shop. E Yard, Diesel...
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Symington Yard is the largest rail classification yard of the Canadian National Railway, and one of the largest rail yards in the world. The intermodal...
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Retarder (railroad) (category Rail yards)
In rail transport, a retarder is a device installed in a classification yard used to reduce the speed of freight cars as they are sorted into trains....
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a trackside scanner located, for instance, at the entrance to a classification yard, while the car was moving past. The project was abandoned after about...
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freight and classification yard CR Harbin Mudanjiang Shenyang Passenger and freight CR Shenyang Shenyang Yuguo Freight and classification yard CR Shenyang...
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Chicago, and Atlanta, along with various facilities like classification yards and intermodal yards. The company also holds trackage rights that allow it...
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to another classification yard. At the next classification yard, cars are resorted. Those that are destined for stations served by that yard are assigned...
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Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Conway is the site of the Conway Yard, a major railroad classification yard and locomotive facility owned by the Norfolk Southern...
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Locomotive Service and Repair Facility is located within the railroad's yard at Hinkle, Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. The first locomotive shop...
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The yard was built in 1890 by the Wabash Railroad, a precursor line to the Norfolk Southern, which used it as its central classification yard. Built...
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receiving yard and 25 classification tracks; the eastbound, a 21-track receiving yard and 17 classification tracks. There were no separate departure yards. By...
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Delaware River. Conrail maintains a classification yard at its western end. The Morrisville Yard was originally a freight yard for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
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Chapelle-Saint-Denis L’Évangile (formerly Gare de la Chapelle), disused classification yard Ménilmontant Pont de Flandres Belleville-Villette, also freight station...
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Taylor Yard, in Los Angeles California, United States, is a former railway station and classification yard and headquarters of Southern Pacific Railroad...
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34.893194°N 117.074611°W / 34.893194; -117.074611 Barstow Yard is a classification yard operated by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) in Barstow...
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BNSF Railway (section Yards and facilities)
of track, and served 100 stations. The main classification yard was in Laurel, Montana, with smaller yards in Missoula, Billings, Bozeman and Helena. BNSF...
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important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural...
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rail cars in North America. Freight trains often operate between classification yards, which are hubs where incoming freight trains are received, and then...
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Ave., United States. The sprawling complex includes engine house, classification yard, auto unloading terminal, and maintenance facilities. It has ten...
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Shunting yard may refer to: Classification yard Shunting yard algorithm British term for rail yard This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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freight trains typically operate between classification yards, while local trains provide freight service between yards and individual loading and unloading...
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