Space Shuttle Era: NASA Railroad Keeps Boosters on Track

The NASA Railroad at Kennedy Space Center keeps the space shuttles moving.
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[@jkirchman79]

It refers to how the cars should be handled when they are in a rail yard. To hump a rail car means sending it over the top of a small hill purposely built in the yard and then allowing it to roll down that hill onto the tracks beyond as a way of sorting the car. Cars with volatile or fragile content are not "humped" as a matter of safety or to maintain the integrity of their contents.

[@Cnw8701]

Wow! I had no idea NASA actually owned their own locomotives, lines, and rollingstock!

[@cherokeefats]

"Humping" means letting cars run down an artificial hill in a rail yard (a "hump") so they can be sorted into specific trains - I don't think you want a car full of rocket fuel rolling freely downhill - woof ... (my Uncle Louie worked as a brakeman)

[@SOU6900]

I got one of those SW1500s in HO scale. Best unit in my collection.

[@LycoValleyRRFan]

This would make a interesting model railroad.

[@doug452]

A hump yard is a large RR yard, with many tracks, where trains are basically assembled. A switch engine will push a car, usually slightly downhill, then let go of it, where it usually goes thru several switches to the correct track, and gently (hopefully) bumps and connects to the correct train. Sensitive or fragile cargo should not go thru this procedure, hence the wording "do not hump" clearly marked on these cars. There's probably many references to hump yards on the internet. Dirty minds ha

[@Grisspy]

I can't get past "DO NOT HUMP" written all over the train

[@lllllRBlllll]

1:20 do not hump lol

[@MrFredbohle]

Do Not Hump refers to a rail hump yard, a method of switching lots of cars at one time over the crest of a small hill (hump) and across sets of automated switches. Cars are released one at a time to roll down the hill and switched onto the proper track, where they smack into other cars previously switched. Doing this with explosives is not recommended!! BTW, lots of specialty loads are marked with this 'Do Not Hump' warning, so trainmen are used to seeing this marking and handling them.

[@silntdoogood]

@mrstonedwolf I broke down and googled the significance of "Do not hump". "Humping" a method of sorting cars in a train. A group of cars are put at the top of a man made hill. The tracks go down the hill, and the car follows the tracks underpowered. In the downward slant of the hill the tracks follow is a series of switches. This allows a series of cars originally on one train to be divided, distributed, and re-arranged, while only powering half the trip. A less fun definition, I know.

[@OversquareGoon]

nasa called they want their train back

[@geomodelrailroader]

Nice video NASA Kennedy nice job on getting the boosters from ATK Thiokol to here. NASA Railroad is truly the railroad of the space program.

[@trainman122]

HA!!!! Eat that Trucking Industry!!!!!!

[@geomodelrailroader]

Good work NASA getting those boosters from Thiokol to Kennedy when the Liberty and the SLS come on line your going to do it again.

[@geomodelrailroader]

that means it can not be sent to a classification yard that 400 tons of rocket fuel that stuff can blow up

[@bizzlemedia]

1.32 "Do not hump" lol!

[@dwkcamman611]

Wow! Awesome!!!

[@southern4501isawesom]

for all you people wondering what "do not hump " means .. its not like humping as in the kinky way a hump on a railroad is a small up hill grade and then a downhill grade to make a rail car alone move on its own with a railroader on the car so they can switch to different track... the railroaders job is to handle car braking so it doesnt couple at over 5 mph .. if it does... the couplers will smash and possibly blow up the solid rocket boosters... wich kills everything near it so they put do not

[@LycoValleyRRFan]

Wonder what will happen now that the shuttle program is done. How about a excursion train?

[@doug33020]

great video! and to all of you 'humpers' out there, go to wikipedia and search 'hump yard'

[@CSX8663]

i also have 3 SW1500's in HO Scale 2 CSX 1 Undecorated and the Undecorated one i am thinking about painting it into NASA #3

[@HODMEChannel]

The Rubber grip brakes will not slow it down and it is to heavy for them and flimsy.

[@Midland1072Productions]

My dream job.

[@piktrains]

Nice video! 5*****

[@pianomanmaestro]

as they say Railroad is one of the most economic ways of transportation...

[@priyonjoni]

lol do not hump

[@viperq]

Rocket train.

[@intermodalman123]

really,do you have any knowlege of trains at all