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The Belt Railway Company in Chicago has Clearing Yard, just south of Midway Airport. The yard is 786 Acres in size and stretches 5 and 1/2 miles from end to end. The yard switches over 8,400 cars a day. They have a very large dpble hump yard with two large bowl yards on either end of the hump with at least 50 tracks apiece, it's just a huge yard and is something to see!!
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