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Do Railroads still hump cars in the yards
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Well flat switching is a fuel guzzler, and I doubt that it will ever be as efficient as a well run hump yard. As for north platte, they actually hump about 7 to 8 thousand cars a day...UP loves to expand on this number, but the truth is between putting stuff on the ground and managers getting in the way. my friends tell me a 7 thousand car day is good there. As for the biggest, somewhere I read that a yard in Hamburg, Germany averages about 11,000 cars a day.
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