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Railroad Yards | Railroad Terminal | Train Parallel Tracks
Railroad yards contain various parallel tracks on which cars are classified according to type and destination. Railroad workers then assemble the sorted cars into newly configured trains, which exit the yard via a main track. This railroad yard serves the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, a center in the American Midwest for the trade and shipping of wheat (Railroad Yards, Railroad Terminal, Train Parallel Tracks). A terminal is an area where individual cars, perhaps arriving from various points, are sorted according to their destinations and assembled in trains. Freight and passenger terminals necessarily include not only stations with offices and various other facilities, but also yards with more or less elaborate systems of tracks and switches. Usually repair shops are provided, and passenger terminals usually include shops, yards, and sheds where cars are cleaned and supplies are put aboard sleeping cars and dining cars (Railroad Yards, Railroad Terminal, Train Parallel Tracks). An incoming locomotive, after its train is uncoupled in a receiving yard and drawn away by a switch engine, proceeds to the engine terminal for inspection, repairs, and servicing or storage. In a freight terminal, the train, minus its locomotive and caboose, is pushed into a classification yard where the cars are separated and sorted. On the usual level tracks the cars must be moved by switch engines, but a large and busy terminal may have a hump yard in which the cars are moved by gravity. Newly assembled strings of cars proceed to other yards where they can be loaded or unloaded, repaired, stored, or prepared for departure (Railroad Yards, Railroad Terminal, Train Parallel Tracks). Railroad Yards | Railroad Terminal | Train Parallel Tracks |
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GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF RAILROADS: • INTRODUCTION • STATE REGULATION • FEDERAL REGULATION • EARLY 20TH-CENTURY REGULATION • THE DEPRESSION YEARS • POSTWAR ENACTMENTS • DEREGULATION MOVEMENTS |
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