Wikimapia is a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge.

CSX Selkirk Perlman Yard

USA / New York / Delmar / Bell Crossing Road, 1
 railroad yard  Add category
 Upload a photo
This is a yard where railroad cars are sorted by destination, and made up into new trains for each destination. It's called a "hump" yard because the cars are pushed one at a time over a hump and allowed to ride down by gravity with the switches set to route it to its appropriate place.

members.trainorders.com/dwhonan/yd/9617.html

www.csx.com/
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   42°33'45"N   73°50'40"W

Comments

  • jjm (guest)
    CR 53 (Jericho/Old School Rd) bridge over the yard closed due to structural problems 7/7/09
This article was last modified 12 years ago