How to Run A Hump Yard

Victrola1

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December 2001
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Posted by Victrola1 on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 7:15 PM

A Deutschen Bundesbahn film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMho1c1lnLc

Not understanding a word of what is said, I still find it intriguing. OHSA would have a heart attack if anybody in America today did the same.

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ChuckCobleigh

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December 2001
From: Sunny (mostly) San Diego
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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:33 PM

Looking forward to Carl’s review.

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Semper Vaporo

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April 2007
From: Iowa
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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:41 PM

When I first started watching I was wondering how they slowed cars coming off the hump... Then I saw the "skates" the men put on the rails.

Semper Vaporo

Pkgs.

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mudchicken

Member since
December 2001
From: Denver / La Junta
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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:59 PM

FRA, not OSHA.

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west

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CShaveRR

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June 2001
From: Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, May 16, 2019 8:37 AM

ChuckCobleigh
Looking forward to Carl’s review.

Look at all of those people they have working there!

I'm just glad that we have a safer coupling system than that. And if our freight cars were as light as those wagons, we would have beegn getting a lot of complaints when we asked those guys to push the cars in the clear.

I'm very underwhelmed at both the safety and efficiency of that operation.

Fascinating freight cars, though.

Carl

Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)

CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)