CSX Hump Yards???

Cincy has a big one with Queensgate.

Ther is a hump in Selkirk NY just south of Albany

I'm not a professional railroader but here is my opinion.

 

Baltimore, being a large port, would be a terminal for a railroad.

Therefore, all freight cars either start or end their travel there, no sorting needed.

A hump yard would be somewhere mid-point. Where trains get broken up and sorted according to their final destination.

I think the key word here is MIDDLE.

Not on a former B&O or C&O line but, Tilford Yard in Atlanta is a big CSX yard.  And B&O did have Bayview Yard in Baltimore years ago.  It sat next to a PRR yard with the same name.

Class yards add time and expense.  As a result, todays class one railroads go to great length to minimize the number of times a car will have to move over a hump between origin and destination.  Two good examples of this are shipments we make out of a Montreal area plant to destinations in Kentucky on CSX or in Arkansas on KCS.  The plant is served by CN.  CSX receives Kentucky cars at a small interchange yard less than a mile from the plant.  These cars are not humped until they reach Cincinnati.  The traffic destined to KCS in Arkansas is taken by CN to Mac Yard in Toronto where it is humped and placed into a train that goes to Jackson, MS and interchange to KCS.  KCS then humps it at Shreveport from where it moves straight to the customer in Arkansas.

Curt

CSX Wilsmere yard in Wilmington DE is former B&O