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- In 2004, we toured Waycross, Georgia's Rice Hump Yard, observing from the control tower and watching as new train consists were assembled in the yard below us, as the superintendent explained the procedure for us. (Sorry about the poor Super 8 camcorder footage, but you do get the feel and sound of the experience.)
My dad worked here for 30 years and I've never seen a video like this. Thank you for this view!
No he didn't.
This was really amazing. I didn’t even know they did it this way. I would love to see this in person happening. It’s rather a wow factor for me. I’m always watching the live camera just outside the yard. Thank you for putting this up.
i watched an hour-long special on hump yards- it had all the intense music and fancy camera work. this 5 minute video was so much more informative and interesting- great job
Thanks.
Thank you for putting this up and providing such a detailed explanation how a hump yard works!
This is the biggest and best HO train layout I've ever seen. The size and detail is awesome! Great gob!
How did you get the figures to move so flawlessly?????
I try to visit Rice yard each year when I visit Brunswick Ga on vacation.
Great video.
Hi Dave here I enjoy watching train videos I dont drive so watch my trains this way
Thanks so much for posting
Dave in Oregon
Very nice...! Thanks for taking time to stop there, at Waycross, and share some transportation history and how things are done...! Gordon
One of the best videos I have ever seen. I have never seen a video with all of the cars traveling free of an engine. I knew about it, but had never seen it covered on any professionally sold videos. We live in Florida and could reach Waycross in one day. Are you able to see any of this action from a vantage point available to a rail fan. Pete Rosa in Venice, FL A BIG THANKS
We observed from the perfect place, of course -- the control tower. Since I'm not from the area, sorry -- I can't tell you if there are any other good vantage points, but since it is a very flat area, I'm skeptical about any existing. Perhaps a local resident or other railfan can answer this question?
Thank you again for posting this wonderful video.
cmorhiker Excellent work my friend. I learned a ton from watching your video. :)
Thanks.
cmorhiker Welcome :)
Wow!! I hope I'll be visiting that site soon to video tape them in action. Sooo cool!! Thanks for posting!
Grew up in Waycross. Used to go over to the yard and watch them work. Interesting to see it from this perspective.
Thank you for your excellent video. Now I know how trains are put together. Fascinating! Still not sure where or how the cargo gets unloaded. Have to search for another video.
Thanks! I haven't seen a bar code on a freight car in a long time and wondered what was up.
wow..... had no idea that the yards could be that large.. hard to believe they could handle that manually without all the hitech stuff nowadays..great video, thanks much..Ernie PA
This is so cool! My son works here. Thanks for the upload cmorhiker.
My son loved this video about hump yards!
Great stuff!!!!! Very informative....!!
After 30 seconds I wasn't sure I was going to be able to make it to the end. By the time the video ended I was hoping for more!
Good job. I hope you see your way to making a "Version 2" of this informative video with the latest video resolution The script almost doesn't need any work.
Well-done, my friend
Outstanding content 👍
nice train video and wow that's a big train yard.
Yes. 1n 1980, Seaboard Coast Line merged with Chessie to form CSX. Waycross was one of 11 hump yards in the network, 9 of which still are operating.
Amazing video!
Great videos of hump yard operations! I've seen a few videos of the procedure but never watched it entirely. The retarded system answers my questions of how the speed of a car could be controlled depending on how far it had to travel to its proper track assignment. Thanks for sharing this video and I'm viewing it from Delmar, Delaware.
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of weight, temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and other variables, the freight car will do as it damn well pleases.
In a suspiciously quiet manner, I might add. Railcars are inherently sneaky on straight track.
Holy Jesus that yard is beautiful. I've worked in the Hulsey and Fairburn yards but nothing like this.
I covered the dedication ceremony for this while a reporter for The Waycross Journal-Herald. It was one of the highlights of my years there. I loved getting caught at grade crossings so I could wave at train crews then count cars.
Our train club went to the hump yard close to us many years ago to see the operation. We were all in the tower and getting a lecture on how the retarders worked and all of that stuff. There was a gondola with ballest in it and the fellow (talked down to us pretty much all of the time because we were "model train" people) and wanted to show us how good he was at keeping the cars in control. He had this car going toward one of two retarders and put on the break. So much that the car stopped in the retarder. He released the breaks completely but the car didn't move. He laughed and said that he would get that car going. The next cat to go on that same track wa going toward the retarder and he hit the stalled gondola hard so it would move. Well --- it did move but only a few short feet because a lot of the rock went flying and jammed the retarder. I don't know how many hours the retarder was jammed nut we found out that this was not the first time he had did this but it was the last. He no longer worked for the railroad.
Wow thank you for posting!
Can't say. It's been almost 9 years since we had the tour. Back then the cars all had individual codes like UPCs to let the computer know what car it was (rolling characteristics, type of car, etc.) and I suppose that was being read by a laser. If new technology has superceded that, I don't know.
my kid just loves this.... now i gotta build something remotely close outta wooden tracks. LOL
Thats a good sized yard for a small town! :-)
It's amazing!!
Amazing! Thanks!
I spent a week in Waycross one night, at the local Jail, i was just passing through on my way back to Michigan, when i got pulled over by the town Police, it didnt take them long to figure out that i had a few to many billy beers, as i rememberd they had the jail, fire dep, dog catcher, and a few more deparments i cant remember, well the next morning, i paid my fine, and hightaild it out of town, aint been back sence, that was in 1971
That's southern railway big hump-yard from the 1950's I couldn't believe its still there!!!
I think I recognize the narrator's voice from Charles Smiley's film covering the Seaboard system and early CSX
Great video.
It's now done electronically by RFID tags. It's quicker this way, and when the cars or loco pass the reader, it's destination, and or location can be known.
good vidio,,amazing how it works,,years ago i worked for a bakery and they lost a car of flower somwhere,,,lol we got a couple of days off,,befor computers.
Actually the tags do not know "destination". THey only know initial and number, speed and direction of travel. That info is then matched up against the waybill in the railroad's computer.
Trying to figure out what the third biggest yard in the U.S. is, behind Bailey Yard and Argentine Yard. Thinking this may be it, unless it's Inman Yard in Atlanta.
Not a mile wide, closer to 1/3rd mile at its widest point. But still, the choreography of moving the cars around is an amazing accomplishment.
No. That technology never really worked. A "consist list" is fed to the hump computer. Each car has a "block" or "destination" code. The hump has each code assigned to a track. Fairly easy. No "laser" readers. However, each car is "tagged" with an AEI device that is used to track the car as it moves past readers. However, hump "blocking" doesn't use that to classify cars to tracks
I worked as a skateman at the Proviso freight yard in Chicago{Melrose park} in the 60's Loved that job
what a wonderful woman to visit that with you!!
It would be cool if somebody had a video of Amtrak's Floridian passing through Waycross in the 70's!
I've seen a lot of old railroad videos lately (quite a few showing the hump operations or classification yards). There used to be one guy with a list sitting at a panel punching buttons to process the incoming freight cars. My question is how has automation allowed for the increased speed of the cars to obtain their proper switching? I see cars that go through so fast that a car could go through the wrong switch.
amazing.
So cool
These days they use AEI readers. The little grey box on car sides
Good information.
Like in limattal marshalling yard in swisserland. Only totaly computerized and electric locomotives and shunting robots work there.
Good question! I'm on max zoom there so it's not very clear. Maybe someone else can answer the question.
is that a furx sd40-2 in this video
Do they still use lasers to read bar codes on each car at the hump to classify?
I wish CSX could build a tower for rail fans so we could see a lot of this action? But I bet I don't see it in my life time and I'm 51 years old. :(
I think now they use RFID tags for sorting not 100% sure
A friend of my grandfather lost a leg in 1941at a switching yard, he was the brakeman and another hit his car he fell off and the second car got his leg.
The camera was fuzzy, out of focus until 5:02.
Awesome
Didn't the Waycross yard use to be own by Seaboard Railroad?
ALL OF THEM PRINTERS ARE LOUD AS HELL.... the humps cut list
They use RFID Tags now!
Whats that small unit behind the CSX at 4:21
That would be what they call a slug unit.
Can any body go there and see this. would love to take my grandson to see this
how many cars can there be in a single cut?
I don't know about waycross but I live up in the twin cities area and at cp's saint Paul yard I've seen probably two to three cars together go down the hump at a time.
wish I worked in a hump yard
OUT OF FOCUS OUT OF FOCUS OUT OF FOCUS!
Potentially very interesting but spoiled by the out of focus, shaky pixelated messy presentation.
Most cars I have seen these days have RFID chips.
rice yard cool i went threw there
having a nerdgasm here lol !!!
Well, I'll be damned - it's just like dealing a hand of cards around a table - throw 'em out there and let 'em stack up - cool!
Spooky video looks like a spy video..
I don't know how I got here, or why this has so many views.
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Rice Yard is a joke compared to UP's yard at North Platte, NB. How did you manage to get on CSX property without CIA clearance? Good video. You gave me a good laugh for today.
I work their nearly every other day as a conductor and why are you hating on a yard? Grow up bud. Jam up video
And how is this yard a joke compared to any other yard? Considering the nation's various infrastructures depend on this location. As far as I'm aware this is the only "world renowned" yard humping utilizing gravity via computer controlled brake retarders and track switchers.
Nice video, I remember pre-9/11 I could permission to photograph off of the paved roads and some times we'd just "pass thru" on our own and not get hasselled.
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