Rail yard
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A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in
A large Amtrak and Metra coach yard just south of Chicago Union Station. About 25 percent of all rail traffic in the United States travels through the Chicago area.
Yard for Amtrak equipment, located next to the Los Angeles River. The two tracks on the left are the mainline.
The "hump" of a hump yard. Railcars travel past retarders, which control their speed, and are directed onto tracks to be assembled into new trains. The control tower operates the retarders.
A coach yard in Shanghai, China
Sunnyside Yard
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Sunnyside Yard is a large coach yard in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Owned by Amtrak and also used by New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road, the yard was built by th
Southern part of Sunnyside Yard looking east from Queens Boulevard overpass
Former boiler house and substation, part of the yard's original electrification infrastructure
View east across the South Yard about 1910, shortly after opening
Observation car of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian at Sunnyside Yard, May 1948