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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important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are...
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The Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs are a professional ice hockey team and a member of the SPHL. Based in Roanoke, Virginia, the Rail Yard Dawgs play their home...
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was done by riders on the cars. In the modern retarder yards this work is done by mechanized "rail brakes" called retarders, which brake the cars by gripping...
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Authority operates 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system and one for the Staten Island Railway. There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active...
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"Hudson Yards" takes its name from the MTA rail yard along the Hudson River between 30th Street and 33rd Street, part of a Penn Central rail yard that once...
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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...
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Union Pacific Railroad (redirect from Proviso Rail Yard)
ultimately passed. In Eugene, Oregon, where pollution from a century-old rail yard has been seeping into groundwater, the UP and the Oregon Department of...
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South would sit on a platform built over the West Side Yard, a storage yard for Long Island Rail Road trains (hence the development’s name). The first...
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Dunaway, Ellen Burstyn and James Caan. Set in the commuter rail yards in New York City ("the yards"), specifically in the boroughs of the Bronx, Queens, and...
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pedestrian crossings across them. Classification yard (US), known (internationally) as a marshaling yard Rail yard Jackson (2006), p. 192. Ellis (2006), p. 207...
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Riverside South, Manhattan (redirect from 60th Street Rail Yard)
Hudson River between 59th Street and 72nd Street. Development of the rail yard site generated considerable community opposition. Trump's 1970s-era proposal...
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Mechanicville, New York (section Rail yard)
automotive terminal opened on the site of a former Boston and Maine rail yard. The new rail yard was built by Pan Am Southern, a joint venture between Pan Am...
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shooting occurred at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. A 57-year-old VTA employee, Samuel...
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from) what was once one of the busiest rail yards on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. The "Potomac Yard" name is also used to refer to several...
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Beacon Park Yard was a CSX Transportation rail yard in Allston, Boston, now owned by Harvard University. The yard opened in 1890 on the site of a former...
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Rock Rail Yard is on the west side of Buffalo, New York, a half mile inland from the Niagara River, in the Black Rock neighborhood. The rail yard receives...
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largest rail yard in the world. It was featured on the "Freight Trains" episode of Modern Marvels on The History Channel. List of rail yards "Humping...
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Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad all own and operate passenger yards in New York City. There are also many yards operated by the New...
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Pink Line (CTA) (redirect from 54th Yard)
to Clinton, then make all stops back to 54th/Cermak. The 54th Yard is a CTA rail yard for the Pink Line in Cicero, Illinois. Currently, 5000-series railcars...
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was less used. The peak of rail freight came during World War II, when New York industries, including the Brooklyn Navy Yard, worked around the clock to...
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Interlocking, the United States' busiest rail junction, is part of the yard. The shared tracks of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Main Line and Amtrak's Northeast...
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sviblovo rail yard" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2017) (Learn how...
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Ōmura Rail Yard Station (大村車両基地駅, Ōmura Rail Yard Station) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōmura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It...
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The Brooklyn Intermodal Rail Yard is a 110-acre Union Pacific rail yard in southeast Portland, Oregon, stretching from Powell Boulevard to Bybee Boulevard...
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The Roseville Yard Disaster was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred on April 28, 1973, at a major Southern Pacific rail yard in the city of...
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The 65th Street Yard, also Bay Ridge Rail Yard, is a rail yard on the Upper New York Bay in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Equipped with two transfer...
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Central railway station, Sydney (section Sydney Yard)
of this rail yard, facing Regent Street, and is visible from Railway Square because of the low scale of buildings in the Western Yard. Rail access to...
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Surge franchise was relocated to Southwest Virginia to become the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs. One of the inaugural SPHL teams, the Columbus Cottonmouths, suspended...
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Shalimar rail yard served as a terminus for goods trains and hosted a rail yard since its inception in 1883. In recent years, it has been brought into...
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