ConRail Pavonia Yard, Camden, New Jersey, Evolution of Physical Change
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ConRail Pavonia Yard, Camden, New Jersey, Evolution of Physical Change

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    Just five years ago, there wasn’t anything unique about Pavonia, which at the time operated as a hump yard. Built in 1883 by the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Camden & Amboy Railroad, Pavonia has undergone a transformation into a highly automated flat switching facility that employs a host of technologies, with the aim of enhancing efficiency and boosting safety. “We realized we would not see more volume growth at the yard with single-car switching,” says Batory, who retired March 31 as the railroad’s president and chief executive officer. “So, we began to look at one-man crew operations and what we needed to do to get rid of the hump.” This presentation describes Pavonia Yard’s physical metamorphosis from a hump yard into a state of the art flat-switching yard. Pavonia is the only flat switching yard in North America that employs true one-person remote-control operations, without any assistance from utility field personnel, Conrail leaders claim. The yard’s reconstruction included a thorough physical redesign of the traditional electro-pneumatic gravity hump and re-engineering of the yard’s processes. Now, Pavonia operates with significantly higher productivity, lower safety risks and fewer assets, and meets service requirements with less variability, says longtime Conrail leader Ron Batory.
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    Conrail Pavonia Yard, Camden, New Jersey, Evolution of Physical Change. AREMA Annual Conference, October 1, 2013.
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