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Do Railroads still hump cars in the yards
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n stephenson hit the nail on the head. we flat switch with remotes, depending on the cuts it can be real slow. an engineer is much faster. we also pull and spot an adjacent refiery with remotes. spotting is a little harder with the remote, but worse is the lead comming out ofthe refinery to the yard has an uphill grade, and you don't get a steady surge of power, the computer rises and falls to keep the speed in a certain range. God help us if there is ice, snow or wet rail....stalling out isn't unheard of..those can be some long days....
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