Bailey Yard is the world's largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America. Owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railro
Bailey Yard illuminated at night
A classification yard, marshalling yard or shunting yard is a railway yard used to accumulate wagons or railway cars on one of several tracks. First, a group of cars is taken to a track, sometimes cal
Bailey Yard
…Bailey Yard is the world's largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America. Owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP…
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Not all cars can be sent over a classification hump. This Union Pacific track maintenance vehicle is permanently labeled "Do not hump" because it is not designed to withstand hump sorting.
The retarders grip the sides of the wheels on passing cars to slow them down.
A CNW towerman operates the retarders at Proviso Yard in Chicago, Illinois (1943)