Eastern Railroad Discussion > hump yards that have two humps?

anyone know besides willard, which hump yards have more than one hump?

Conway does, although I believe one of them was taken out of service after NS reopened Enola.

I'd be surprised if UP's Bailey Yard in North Platte NE doesn't have two humps.

Enola had 2 humps too. Then Conrail closed them both then reopened one after only a few months when they found out that they really did need one in Enola after all.

Bailey Yard does have two humps. Allentown did back in the day.


DT

DanThorne Wrote:
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> Allentown did
> back in the day.
>

There were others with twin humps 'back in the day' -- like Cedar Hill in New Haven, which now barely exists at all....

L&N's Decoursey yard outside of Latonia Kentucky had two. However after the mergers it was closed and moved to what is now CSX's Queensqate yard in Cincinnati.

Conway's eastbound hump has been closed

Brunswick MD had 2 humps (west yard - east yard)
Also did flat switching in Valley Yard.

Pretty sure Selkirk still has two humps.

Selkirk only had one hump last week with very little going over it. I don't know if it may have had more than one in the past.

DT

The CB&Q had a double hump at Galesburg, IL. If I remember correctly it was two 40-track humps. In the 1980s the BN rebuilt it into a single hump with 64 tracks.

NZ

Cumberland used to have 2 humps, so did Pot yard. Clearing in Chicago has two humps still. I think old Northumberland had 2 humps; if you go way back into history when the railroads hauled virtually everything and it all was loose carload traffic, and many were rider humps, the list will grow. Yje original Selkirk may have had 2 humps; takes some research.

List,

Alton & Southern railway in East St Louis/Alorton, Ill ( close to St Louis ) still has a double hump in daily use at there Gateway yard . It is normally worked by pairs of Union Pacific SD40-2's and can be easliy photographed from public property in the morning.
Mark Mautner

East Altoona once had two humps. They went away around the same time as the full-circle roundhouse, although you can still see the remains of both humps (and the roundhouse) if you know where to look.

Waycross, Ga. had a doubletrack hump back in 2002 when I got a tour of the yard. Don't know if they still use it or not.

Russell Kentucky at one time had two humps. Fitzpatrick for manifest and the coal hump...the manifest hump was removed and abandoned when all classification was moved to Cincy...

The coal hump, I believe, is still in service.

CG Tower

Alton Yard near St. Louis has a twin hump.
Gonut

pennsy3750 Wrote:
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> East Altoona once had two humps. They went away
> around the same time as the full-circle
> roundhouse, although you can still see the remains
> of both humps (and the roundhouse) if you know
> where to look.

Add one more to Altoona for a total of three humps. WJ "Homer", Scales, and WN East Altoona. 10 yards, about 9000 car capcity in 1929.

Double humps (one for each direction of traffic) were once quite common. When I worked in IC's Markham Yard in 1974, it had two humps and a total of six yards -- two arrival, two departure, and two hump bowls. It's now been rebuilt as an intermodal terminal.

Santa Fe's Argentine Yard was also built as a double hump in the 1960s. Following the BNSF merger, classification work was supposed to be switched to the ex-BN Murray Yard and Argentine was rebuilt as an intermodal terminal. However, Murray turned out not to be large enough, so one hump and bowl tracks were put back in classification service at Argentine.

hoydie17 Wrote:
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> Pretty sure Selkirk still has two humps.

Selkirk may have once had two humps, but it's been single-hump for decades.