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 ...

SelkirkOf the major freight railroads over whose tracks Amtrak operates most of its service, Canadian Pacific had the best performance from July 2016 to June 2017. CP, which Harrison headed ...

Rail yards are starting to rumble with activity again as freight railroads invest in expanding capacity and improving service. The Wall Street Journal reports that Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific ...

The yard has become the primary location for more than 3,200 cars and nearly 110 trains that pass through each day. “Prior to the expansion, we had 42 classifications of tracks. Each one of ...

As part of that effort, Harrison, who previously worked at Canadian Pacific and before that Canadian National, also moved to phase out so-called hump yards, where individual freight cars roll down ...

CSX’s Tilford Yard isn’t just any old piece of land. It will likely continue to include an active freight line straight into the heart of transit-waffling Cobb County.

The hump yard is the railroad equivalent of a mail sorting center, Wallace said. The railroad breaks down trains and reassembles them based on the destination of the freight.

A hump yard is the railroad equivalent of a mail sorting center. The railroad breaks down trains and reassembles them based on the destination of the freight. Coal trains aren’t broken down in ...

Caskey Yard, in Caskey, Kentucky, which was opened in 2014, has already been closed. Barr Yard, located in Riverdale, Illinois, was suddenly downgraded on Sunday, with no prior warning.