The vast majority have seen use as very heavy switchers ( generally for hump yard work ), transfer locomotives for hauling cuts of cars between rail yards, or pushers for assistance on grades.
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According to the PRRT & HS PRR Chronology, the first hump yard in the United States was opened May 11, 1903 as part of the Altoona Yards at Bells Mills ( East Altoona ).
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CSX Had a large hump yard for full service to Pittsburgh over Sand patch grade to the west, the Grafton, West Virginia line to the south, & the Baltimore, Maryland line to the east.
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Opened in April 1964, the facility was designed as a hump yard, and is bounded by Sheppard Avenue to the south, McCowan Road to the west, Markham Road to the east and Finch Avenue to the north.
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Other large American hump yards include Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, the second-largest in the world, Robert Young Yard in Elkhart, Indiana, Maschen near Hamburg, Germany; it is only slightly smaller than Bailey Yard.
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Most hump yards are single yards with one classification bowl, but some, mostly very large, hump yards have two of them, one for each direction, thus are double yards, such as the Maschen, Antwerp, Clearing, and Bailey yards.
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Most hump yards are single yards with one classification bowl, but some, mostly very large, hump yards have two of them, one for each direction, thus are double yards, such as the Maschen, Antwerp, Clearing, and Bailey yards.
