Classification/Hump Yard Operations

[@manga12]

I thought this would be neat to see, and thought it worked faster then one at a time, like more like continuous flow on the sorting, but it is grating on my teeth ears and last nerve ackk - _-

[@dPeteD]

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.

[@manga12]

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.

[@dPeteD]

@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."

[@manga12]

yes its all or non with things that big.

[@RailroadScannerMan15]

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.

[@patrickm5217]

I remember seeing a hump yard on the Mighty Machines TV show in the 90s as a kid. I loved that show

[@KCSLines]

The switches there are really dangerous. I'm currently working at a hump yard, and by the time you hear the switch motor rev up, the switch has already moved, unbelievable how fast they move, so keep your hand and feet away from the gaps!

[@DJtrainman261]

+KCSLines I work for the railroad in Germany, and here it's drilled into every railroader to *never* stick your fingers into moveable switch points unless you've secured them.

[@trackie1957]

I’m reminded of something I learned from an old timer at my first job in a garage: “Never put your finger where you wouldn’t put your d*#k.”

[@dhlong1697]

Opened 1976, bicentennial year. Dad and I would drive out some nights just to watch this as close as we could.

[@JamieSmith-fz2mz]

I'm converting that screach at the very beginning of the video to use as my ring tone. No one will ever mistake it for anyone else's phone.

[@johnbidochka2795]

I visited the CN Symington Hump Yard in Winnipeg Canada in 2013, and my ears are STILL ringing.

[@insylem]

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

[@Badchoicesmade]

"Viewers should consider hearing protection or reducing the volume as sound pressure levels in this video reflect actual yard conditions" Okay you heard the annotation, earplugs! Now!

[@JPVideos81]

Was wondering if i can use about 30 seconds of this footage in a video of an abandoned hump yard i filmed? All credit will be given on the video.

[@dPeteD]

Thank you for the ask, use whatever you need.

[@JPVideos81]

@@dPeteD thanks so much!

[@AntónioJoséDiasMaheme]

Interesting system... and it is possible to reduce wagon collisions with this system after cutting 👌

[@MagictrainsOrg]

Very cool! I'm a Hump Yard fan too! :)

[@DL2045]

@arlingtontrains7 it's a flat car with stack-able dumpsters on it hauling garbage

[@MichaelPaulik]

I live near Queensgate Rail Yard in Cincinnati and hear that squeky noise all night and day! What exactly is that?

[@dPeteD]

This video was part of an FRA funded research project, which includes $5 million in personal injury insurance and the permission of the rail company. See research result links in comments.

[@skyraiderjet]

I saw where you said you can get permission to see this, How do you get the permission to see this, and could include a cab ride in a locomotive by obtaining this type of permission.

[@Railfanable]

What type of car can be seen following the tankcar at 2:34?

[@dPeteD]

Trash. Sort of a large roll-off dumpster.

[@stephenbarber186]

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. 😂

[@sk84lifedb]

The municipal waste spine cars getting humped at 2:50 is honestly surprising

[@Brucelocomotiveman]

I like this video interesting how they on hook those car awesome.

[@cesaralvarez5982]

Very interesting, but I still don't know how it works. I know the little sign said that it controls the friction, what else is happening? I like trains and all related to it, but I'm still a lay man.

[@bmw3880]

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

[@cesaralvarez5982]

+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.

[@ihrescue]

Great video. Thanks

[@lawrence18uk]

None of these left in UK, but many in continental Europe - anyone know how many?

[@railfanallen]

Good old railroading at its finest.

[@fordlukebo]

what car is that on sec 2.59?

[@DaMeng3000]

I'm taking a wild guess and saying this is the CSX Selkirk Hump Yard?

[@dPeteD]

Hamlet, NC.

[@arlingtontrains7]

what kinda of freight car is that at 2:55?

[@johnblair8146]

An articulated intermodal car repurposed to carry trash containers.

[@BucketSeeker]

What do the funny rails do? are they brakes?

[@johncotter1600]

Yes, hump yards are gravity fed, and the retarders push the rails against the wheels to slow their roll.

[@railroadhistoryarchives]

Pretty much

[@boomy776]

0:06 They see me rollin,they hatin,patrolin

[@usnva5638]

I need to wear ear plugs when watching this video on maximum volume.

[@charlesgault3777]

What's the signal for at the top of the hill?

[@coloradostrong]

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.

[@chazzlucas6208]

IS THERE ANY COMPUTERS USED OR IS IT JUST FRICTION ????

[@dPeteD]

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.

[@kevinhoward9593]

well my hearing is shot for a few days.

[@steelem422]

This looks like fun make them go faster....

[@SoFloRR1018]

Very nice! I just subscribed also.

[@coloradostrong]

HAHAHAHA

[@easyamp123]

6 pixels at 2 fps. must of been a quick upload, lol

[@hobeone1192]

I sleep to these sounds..

[@BossSpringsteen69]

He is not lying about turn your volume down.

[@mariestick6636]

Awesome

[@Bigbuddyandblue]

I wouldn't want to work near this! Screeeeeeeecchhh😬😬

[@dPeteD]

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.

[@josephtucker7181]

Radnor?

[@whiteknightcat]

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.

[@lukemeyers8028]

This Tech. goes back to the 1940s the closest one to me is Pennsylvania Railroad's Enola Yard in Harrisburg Pennsylvania now owned and operated by Norfolk Southern which used to be the largest in the world until the mid 1950s . Hitler wanted to bomb it during WW II ..😁😁 The more you know...

[@geomodelrailroader]

seen this video before CSX Waycross yard

[@dPeteD]

This video was shot at CSX's Hamlet Yard.

[@FiremanSVFD-cf1jn]

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

[@BucketSeeker]

@daileypj Ok thanks.

[@nobby3265]

can someone explain to me why the Americans regularly unleash their freight cars like they did in this video?

[@michaelz7683]

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

[@goodeye03]

LOL, It's everywhere. Thanks.

[@africkinamerican]

AHHHHHHHHHH MY EEEEEEEEEEAAAAARRRRRSSS

[@user-bg6kq8ke8u]

in Russia it is the same

[@25mfd]

what??????????????

[@dPeteD]

Hamlet Yard.

[@goodeye03]

Trash. 10/15 ton containers on a flatcar....Whole trains are made up with it. Usually gray containers.

[@coloradostrong]

I am trying to determine if this was recorded using a bank camera or one of the color cameras from the fake moon landing.

[@kenamaro]

Possible Railhead......🚂🚂

[@fiercetrains4052]

My ears in the first 30 seconds = 0

[@digitalmoviedv]

Very nice and interesting video! If you want see my videos and review or subscribe. Greetings from Italy. Ciao, Stefano :-)

[@CPRailRTC]

Because not everybody are foamers

[@goodeye03]

Trash. Whole trains can be made of these. Roll off dumpsters...

[@rileyodonald3034]

It is a CSX hump yard so I automatically dislike it.

[@carlosphillips8447]

The chicken shit xpress is to cheap to build a shelter over the pinpuller

[@thisisutubnottwitterwhyhandles]

this video needs some wd40

[@dPeteD]

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

[@thisisutubnottwitterwhyhandles]

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