Replacing the yard’s master retarder. Replacing the main hump yard “king” switch used to direct freight cars as they come off the hump into tracks where new trains are being built. Installing new ...

“With a company as large as ours, we are always in transition. If we can make small changes and cascade them across the network, there are big opportunities to make lasting changes.” BNSF’s hump yard ...

A hump yard is an artificially elevated area within an area where the force of gravity is used to move rail cars along a network of marshaling tracks. The Southern Railway built the Linwood Yard in ...

During a visit to the SRS yard at Lackawaxen on Monday, March 10, there were 10 freight rail cars, open at the top, filled with aggregate and lined in a train ready for the locomotive.

When the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad reached Lincoln in July 1870, it was probably considered no more than a destination point on a ribbon to the west.

Derailing 140 jobs, Norfolk Southern Corp. is ending regional rail car sorting at its Roanoke "hump yard," an operation that railroad experts estimate is about 100 years old.