Does anyone know the number of bowl tracks,car capacity ,daily classification ability and size of each of the North American Hump Yards in service now.
Sorry, I don’t…
LC
The Belt Railway Company in Chicago has Clearing Yard, just south of Midway Airport. The yard is 786 Acres in size and stretches 5 and 1/2 miles from end to end. The yard switches over 8,400 cars a day. They have a very large dpble hump yard with two large bowl yards on either end of the hump with at least 50 tracks apiece, it’s just a huge yard and is something to see!!
UP’s Proviso Yard has 66 classification tracks, and should hump about 2000 cars per day. Bowl capacity is well above 1500 cars, but you don’t ever want to see it that full…anything over 1000 and operations go quickly awry. Proviso has a lot of manifest, coal, and intermodal business that doesn’t use the hump, so the daily classification counts are closer to 5,000 cars.
Didn’t TRAINS run an article on this about 16 months ago with a list and characteristics?
Go to motorbooks.com. They have a nice picturebook covering just that topic. I think it’s titled North American Railyards.
Can anyone provide a full electronic copy of an article concerning North American Hump Yards in the June and July 2002 issues of TRAINS Magazine?