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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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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riders in cars did this braking. In modern retarder yards, this work is done by mechanized "rail brakes," called retarders, which brake cars by gripping...
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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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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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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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"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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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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Erwin, Tennessee (section Rail yard closure)
rail yard. After acquiring 42% of Conrail in 1999, CSX became one of four major railroad systems in the nation and Erwin continued to host the rail yard...
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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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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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Riverside South, Manhattan (redirect from 60th Street Rail Yard)
to the rail yard boundary along Freedom Place. New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form Penn Central in 1968 as the rail lines were...
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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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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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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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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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Ōmura Rail Yard Station (大村車両基地駅, Ōmura-Sharyōkichi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ōmura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Union Station (New Haven) (section CT Rail)
HAER No. CT-160, "New Haven Rail Yard", 2 photos, 26 data pages, 1 photo caption page HAER No. CT-160-A, "New Haven Rail Yard, Interlocking Control Building"...
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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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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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