Humping Cars?

[HirailTruck]

Yep, they still do it...
Watched them humping the cars in Port Coquitlam yard while working on machines.....
Those cars are dead silent when they roll by....

[paddy78]

Those cars are dead silent when they roll by....

Yeah, most dangerous place on the rr is in the bowl of a hump yard. Trim jobs are terrible; when you are in there buckling the air you can hear the slack pancaking in, never know if it is your track or the next one that they just humped a car into. Fun to watch, but I like my arms and legs where they are thank you!

regards,

Pat

[j edgar]

"kicking cars" while flat switching is as dangerous as humping cars for the same reasons mentioned....i worked a 1st shift yard job at a small flat yard in Lansing Mi....2 am in a snow storm you cant hear them cars rolling....a sharp ear on the radio and remembering your job briefing are your biggest friends

[j edgar]

This is still very common. You can drive down Hwy 61 and watch the action at Pigs Eye or head down East River Road into Minneapolis to watch the BNSF hump at Northtown. These are two very typical hump classification yards. This can be scaled, but you need to tune your rolling stock to your hump.

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lol....SMACK go the couplers....neat but ruff on the running gear....and as mentioned later....autoracks are clearly marked DO NOT HUMP.....

[ranulf]

There's a blurb in the most recent Classic Trains magazine about a visit to the Pennsylvania's hump yard in Conway. Dwight Long, the author, says:

"After a while I saw a boxcar with a prominent DO NOT HUMP sign going over the crest. I inquired of the tower man about this. His reply: 'Oh hell, sonny, at Conway we hump everything except dynamite, and after dark we hump that too!' "

Unfortunately, it's not dated as to when this conversation took place...