Draft for Design Manual, Chapter 5: Deciding on Flat vs. Hump Yard

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Draft for Design Manual, Chapter 5: Deciding on Flat vs. Hump Yard

1979-07-11
By Wong, Peter J

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Creators:

Wong, Peter J
Corporate Creators:

SRI International
Subject/TRT Terms:

Classification Yards Flat Yards Hump Yards Manuals Railroad Facility Operations Railroad Yards Yard Operations
Publication/ Report Number:

Project 6364-1
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Other
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

Informal Note 57
Corporate Publisher:

SRI International
Abstract:

We address the questions of whether a flat or hump yard should be built, or perhaps more importantly, whether an existing flat yard should be rehabilitated into a hump yard. One can classify a flat yard as a labor-intensive facility, whereas a hump yard is a capital-intensive facility. For this reason, it has been traditional to build flat yards for low-volume terminals, and to build hump yards for high-volume terminals. However, this needs to be re-examined because of the rapid inflation of labor costs in the last decade and the innovation in the design of so-called “mini-hump” yards.
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