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SID6FIVE
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Railyards...
Posted by SID6FIVE on Friday, October 22, 2004 8:52 AM
Does anyone know which railyard (flat or hump) has been around the longest? Just curious...
Don't worry,it's not supposed to make sense...
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csxengineer98
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Posted by csxengineer98 on Friday, October 22, 2004 6:55 PM
flat switch was has beena round the longest...the first gravity hump was done in 1900..in a little town in PA called youngwood on the PRR...
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Posted by Sterling1 on Friday, October 22, 2004 7:49 PM
Does anyone know which yard(s) were the shortest lived in the U.S. and the world?
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 22, 2004 8:17 PM
...I know CP had some awsome railyards in Vancouver in the Flase Creek Area, they were all taken down in the early 1980s for Expo 86.

It used to be called the "Q" yard.

Not sure when it was put in though, but I wish I was born a little earlier so I could have seen them.
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ericsp
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Posted by ericsp on Friday, October 22, 2004 10:25 PM
I think he wanted to know which train yard has been around longest. Not which type.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 23, 2004 1:45 AM
The old Santa Fe yard at Oklahoma City, Flynn yard was opened as a mimi hump operation in 1981. By the early 1990s the hump was taken off line and all yard work became flat switched. At about only a decade in operation , Flynn yard had to have the shortest life as a hump yard.
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Posted by DPD1 on Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:04 PM
I was going to name a couple in Chicago, but I would have to assume it would be on the East Coast somewhere, wouldn't it? It's probably one that nobody would think of. Plus, it would depend on the definition of 'yard'. Technically you could name the first spot on the first line, that had more then two tracks for storage... Assuming that spot still exists. I think EJ&E Kirk Yard is probably a pretty old hump yard.

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csxengineer98
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Posted by csxengineer98 on Saturday, October 23, 2004 5:17 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp

I think he wanted to know which train yard has been around longest. Not which type.
oh i must have misunderstoond..sounded to me like he wanted to know what type of yard has been around the longest....
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Posted by ericsp on Sunday, October 24, 2004 10:04 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98

QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp

I think he wanted to know which train yard has been around longest. Not which type.
oh i must have misunderstoond..sounded to me like he wanted to know what type of yard has been around the longest....
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He could have meant that, I just said what I think he wanted to know.

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Posted by railman on Monday, October 25, 2004 12:51 AM
When the Pigs Eye Yard (Milwaukee Rd., St. Paul, Minn. ) was made into a hump yard in the 1950s' , wasn't it one of the first?
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