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kenneo
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December 2001
From: Upper Left Coast
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kenneo
on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 1:21 AM
When the SP was still a real railroad, we had a computer controlled hump at Eugene. We would put 3000 cars a day over the hump with 2 hump crews per shift and 5 trim jobs. Also had a "30 Yard" engine and a "40 Yard" engine each shift for a total of 9 jobs per shift. We would hump in cuts if the cars did not require weighing. Came the merger and the UP closed the yard - only interchange tracks for W&P and WOP shortlines now. Round house gone, hump graded into the bowl everything is gone except for 6 short tracks. Was a crew change point. Several thousand jobs now gone forever.
Eric
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kenneo
Member since
December 2001
From: Upper Left Coast
1,796 posts
Posted by
kenneo
on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 1:21 AM
When the SP was still a real railroad, we had a computer controlled hump at Eugene. We would put 3000 cars a day over the hump with 2 hump crews per shift and 5 trim jobs. Also had a "30 Yard" engine and a "40 Yard" engine each shift for a total of 9 jobs per shift. We would hump in cuts if the cars did not require weighing. Came the merger and the UP closed the yard - only interchange tracks for W&P and WOP shortlines now. Round house gone, hump graded into the bowl everything is gone except for 6 short tracks. Was a crew change point. Several thousand jobs now gone forever.
Eric
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