Proceedings of the American Railway Engineering Association
Proceedings of the American Railway Engineering Association
American Railway Engineering Association
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The riders are regulated by these reports. 19. Electric switches are u-sed; they require one man by day and one man at night. 20. No advantage can be gained by the use of two scales on a hump. 21. The cost per car for yard handling (from the time the road engine is cut off on receiving track until road engine is coupled to train on departure track) is a little over 10 cents. 2. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. (New Castle Yard; New Castle Junction, Pa. See Fig. 15.) 1. Maximum number of trains enteri...ng receiving yard in one hour, 4. 2. Average number of cars per train, 50. 3. Average number of trains entering receiving yard in 24 hours, 12. 4. The average train pushed over hump with one 50-ton engine weighs 2,500 tons. 5. Average number of qpts per train, 28. 6. Percentage of cars weighed that pass over the hump, 30 per cent. 7. Cars are uncoupled to be weighed. 8. The scale is located on the hump, 50 ft. from the summit. 9. The classifying capacity of the yard is not diminished by placing the scale on the hump.
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