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Wow . . . a wealth of information coming in! I had figured that bit about each railroad building its own yard in pre-merger days. I would guess that CSX's Howells Yard in Atlanta used to be Seaboard Air Line's main Atlanta yard, for instance. My question has more to do with what new roles these yards take on after consolidation. And Howells is a good example, as it sits "around the corner" (or "around the wye," so to speak) from Tilford (which I 'm guessingused to belong to L&N). Nowadays, it looks like half of the Howells trackage has been pared down and converted to a Transflo bulk transfer facility, but the other half has a more or less normal mix of rolling stock. So how does it fit the larger picture? CSSHEGEWISCH, you talked of smaller yards used to originate local switch jobs--that's precisely the type I'm wondering about. If incoming cars are sorted at a main classification yard, why would they need resorting again a short distance down the pike in the same city? Why not base the locals out of the main yard to begin with and cut out a second yard delay? I'm sure there are excellent reasons, so I look forward to the education. Mudchicken, you mentioned storage yards. I found myself thinking in those directions this morning when I looked in on NS's Pegram--all I saw in a brief glance were box cars. But why would an industry need to store cars? Don't they simply request cars as necessary and leave it to the railroad to provide them?
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