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I don't think so. Radnor has a single hump track that splits into three major leads, not a double track with crossovers as shown. There would also be a two story yard office building to the right of the hump as you're looking up it from the retarder.

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It lights up and a bell rings to let you know you have reached the top of the hill. That's all. When you reach the bottom a cannon shoots beach balls in the air to alert you that you have reached the bottom of the hill.

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Interestingly, there are some yards with automated lubricators that spray the car's wheels before the retarder.

Yes i learned what humps were by watching i love big trains absolutley ages ago

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This is called a classification yard. There is an incline and multiple sidings, which saves time thay would be wasted by using a shunter to move each car into a siding

The control systems can range from 50’s era relay logic to moderately sophisticated computer controls. Control inputs come from the speed (radar) sensors, wind speed and direction (consider the rail car sides acting like a sail), temperature (affects wheel bearing friction), and gross weight, and how many cars are in the destination track. Outputs control oilers (a spritz of oil on the wheels in some yards before the retarder), the main, group, intermediate (not @ all yards), and group retarders to produce a car rolling speed no faster than walking speed (4 mph) but fast enough to couple.

This video was shot at CSX's Hamlet Yard.

They shut the hump down now, from 7 to 9 jobs per shift too 1.

Trash. Sort of a large roll-off dumpster.

Carmen in Selkirk ny and refer to those cars as poopy cars. Shit sloshes all over the couplers and air hoses when they're humped. 😂

its using air pressure to grab the wheels untill the car reaches a certain speed

+bmw3880 Thank you very much for your replay, now it makes sense. I suppose it would be very hard to see this taking place in a video, but your explanation clarifies it, thank you again.

Interestingly, when wearing full PPE in the yard to protect your hearing, the lack of sound makes it hazardous to cross tracks without visually verifying a car isn't sneaking up from behind. So many ways to injury. I've a tremendous regard for those men and women that work safely, day after day.

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Happy you've experienced how difficult it is to work in the yard without PPE. Next time, put in your earplugs, put on your steel toes, wear your gloves and then click the mouse to watch.

I have worked as a volenteer for a historical railroad, but it is not loud like this except when they are doing boiler work on the engine, safety first, you have to have your wits about you at all times, not only can a track trip you but you want to watch your head when you are inside the engine there is nothing light about a steam engine at all, save for maybe the handles on the controls everything else is built very heavy of of iron and steel, Banged my head on the inside of the smoke box 5 times in one day and thats enough to give you a headache, and lets not get into pulling the heat guards off the superheaters after they were pulled to clean and test them to make sure they aren't failing, 20 years of dirt and rust is a lot to get through, but the needle scaler is fun as heck to use but hard to guide till you get the hang of it for removing most of the rust.

@manga12: Safety. So true. It was said during a safety briefing at a yard that, "there are few small injuries, you either lose a limb or lose your life."

yes its all or non with things that big.

manga12 this is quite fast, there are numerous regulations regarding humping cars, weight limits, size, vertical and wide load dimensions, type of car equipment, etc. that means anything attached to a car, such as loaded well cars can't be humped. etc. a person stands there and uncouples cars on cue. with a trained eye, a hump yard operator electronically controls switches and retarders, once they roll it is under electrical technology to activate retarders based on speed, size, etc. it's a very economic practice, but expensive to maintain.

That's called tinnitus. I got it from the military. Hope you are able to manage it ok.