Have railroads built any hump yards in the modern era? I would imaging the need is still there...and possibly growing. Some say they are outdated but the computer controlled hup yards are way ahead of their time.
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Don't know about new hump yards, but here's an article about a UP hump yard refurbished in 1999.
http://findarticles.com/p/arti...s_5_201/ai_62745037/
With unit trains and solid intermodal trains, I imagine there's less of a need for a hump yard nowadays.
Rusty
BNSF has a **** of a hump at Memphis. It takes several engines to feed into it trains at a time.
The Secret Service is getting bumper stickers for their Suburbans that say "DO NOT HUMP"...
I grew up a few miles from, and my father worked at, Selkirk Yard in the upstate NY area just south of Albany (now owned/operated by CSX). I remember as a kid my dad bringing me up to the "Hump" tower to watch the cars go over one-by-one and then classified to the various tracks. I believe the classification yard was/is 80 tracks wide (a number I remember my dad mentioning every now and then). Back in the 70s and 80s it was computerized but I have no idea if the technology guiding operations was ever updated. When I go home to visit family I don't take any trips to the yard like I did as a kid. Pictures I've seen online show trains still being sent up the hump so I can only assume it is still utilized. -Len
Check out UP's modern Bailey Yard in Nebraska. I beleive they may have 2 hump yards.
Jack
Norfolk Southern is adding another hump to their Bellevue Ohio yard starting shorthly along with more 40 more tracks I believe when its all done it will be their biggest yard in the system .
