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Call was placed to Proviso hump in Chicago. I lied, told a Assit. yard something I was in college doing a report on transportation. (Never tell them your a railfan.) Without getting into details he told me that yes, hump switching is cheaper but more time consuming and causes more damage to the cargo and the railcar. While flat switching is more expensive, you can get a yard cleaned out quicker. With flat switching you can move cars in blocks, in hump switching it is one feeder track one car at a time. He told me a three man crew consisting of 2 switchmen and one good kicker (I was told there is a art to kicking cars that seprates good engineers from bad engineers) can out swich any hump yard but there is a safty risk to flat switching. <br /> TIM A
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