Friday will be the last day for the hump at Norfolk Southern’s (NYSE: NSC) Enola yard in Pennsylvania.
Instead of using the hump, Norfolk Southern (NS) will sort and attach railcars to outbound trains using flat switching.
A hump yard, or classification yard, is where trains are divided and sorted according to their destinations using a hill or “hump” to connect cars. Flat switching also involves dividing and sorting railcars, but instead of using gravity and hills to connect cars, locomotives...
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