A yard is a place with alot of switchs, and it’s run by a bunch of son’s of b’ itch’s , you can never get in and you can never get out, that what’s a yard is all about.
You are right on that.
my experiences with the can’t get in or out were the “incentive to goof off” built in to the arbitrary penalty paymentrs for intial and final terminal delay. in short, the more problems you had or caused, the more money you made. i was gulty as anybody else about taking the $$$$. tow in pay and dead heads bought my first new automobile.
grizlump
Not to date myself, but I first heard that definition from a New Haven bridge tender (Bridge at the end of Pelham Bay) when 1950 was still in the future. Can’t say from my own experience how valid it is, I spent my working life on flight lines, not in yards.
Watching a Scherzer rolling lift bridge operate from inside the op’s cabin was interesting.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Gee, I was going to say a linear distance of 36".