They were built by several different makers, although hump yards where they spent much of their life pushing long trains over the hump for classification.
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The westbound hump yard was outfitted with an automatic control system called VELAC, which was designed and installed by the Union Switch and Signal Company.
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Another hump yard with 64 tracks was added in 1968, followed by a diesel locomotive shop in 1971, and a railroad car shop in 1974.
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It was described as the " world's largest push-button yard . " The eastbound hump yard was installed with semi-automatic operation.
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"' Hump yards "'are the largest and most effective classification yards, with the largest shunting capacity, often several thousand cars a day.
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Other sources report the PRR yard at Youngwood, PA which opened in the 1880s to serve the Connellsville coke fields as the first U . S . hump yard.
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The locomotive was from 1975 used as a heavy switcher at UP's North Platte, Nebraska hump yards, a fate common to UP's other surviving SD24s.
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In addition to the marshalling yard, which was designed as a hump yard, extensive locomotive maintenance facilities were built, which later developed into the Bahnbetriebswerk Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf.
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Conway is the hub of operations for Norfolk Southern in the Greater Pittsburgh area, featuring a hump yard and a crew change point for virtually all Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Line trains.
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The 63413 is designed to perform two functions common to the 63000 platform : switching ( hump yard ) service and urban service ( operation within 20 40 km of a freight station ).
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