hump yard
1hump yard — noun : a railroad switch yard having a hump …
2Yard (disambiguation) — Yard may mean: *Yard, a unit of length (3 feet) *Megalithic yard, a theoretical unit of prehistoric measurement *Yard (beer), an extremely long beer glass *Yard (land), an enclosed area, usually attached to a building, sometimes a garden (often… …
3hump — {{11}}hump (n.) 1680s (in hump backed), from Du. homp lump, from M.L.G. hump bump, from P.Gmc. *hump , from PIE *kemb to bend, turn, change, exchange. Replaced, or perhaps influenced by, crump, from O.E. crump. A meaning attested from 1901 is… …
4hump — n. & v. n. 1 a rounded protuberance on the back of a camel etc., or as an abnormality on a person s back. 2 a rounded raised mass of earth etc. 3 a mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity to the required place in a… …
5Classification yard — North Yard in Denver, Colorado, a typical U.S. classification yard in 2009 …
6Enola Yard — is a large rail yard in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania.HistoryThe yard was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905 and was the world’s largest freight yard through the late 1950s, containing 145 miles of track and 476 switches.Citation… …
7Rail yard — Night view of part of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway yard at Kansas City, Kansas. March 1943 …
8CPR Toronto Yard — is a facility located in northeast Toronto often incorrectly referred to as Agincourt Yard due to its location in Agincourt, a neighbourhood of Scarborough.One of the largest marshalling yards in Canada, the Toronto Yard is used to switch freight …
9CPR Lambton Yard — Lambton Yard is a freight marshaling yard for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Toronto, located to the west of and contiguous with the West Toronto Yard on the Galt Subdivision. It was the main freight marshaling yard until replaced by a modern… …
10gravity yard — noun : hump yard …
