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Thanks Ed ... that makes a lot of sense. I've been interested in trains since I was a kid but I'm just now (a number of years later) starting to learn a lot more about the way railroads operate. So a hump yard is more of a rough sorting area where cars are generally blocked by track into destination in no particular order. If there is room for a transfer yard the cars would be hauled there and more carefully sorted. (?) If a transfer yard does not exist then the cars are taken by track(destination) from the hump bowl further down the line where they will eventually be sorted more specifically. If I'm grasping this correctly, a transfer yard then is more of a flat classification yard that exists very near the hump yard for convenience. <br /> <br />Thanks, <br />Ken
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