They tried flat yard switching for a few years. Anybody know names of yards they going to start using the humps again?
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I heard North Sc-t is opening a hump
But if they fire a guy for improper switch repair, they save his salary, including benefits. So the 100k is a wash.
Yea they are gonna start.....nowhere.
UP is too stupid to maintain anything. We had a bad switch in our yard that wasn't in the budget to replace. So it was band aide maintenance on the switch until it failed and caused over $100k in damage in a derailment. Super smart move cost 20x the price of a new switch.
Maintenance on a hump yard is evidently more than on a flat switching yard. The bean counters get tunnel vision and only focus on that upkeep number and fail to factor in overall efficiency.
I'd wager the transition to flat switching and enroute swaps have not proven to be the money savers they envisioned regardless of what the made up metrics and cooked books show...
We have eviscerated our infrastructure and the current plan to "grow" is gonna be a tough one when there is nowhere TO grow...
The amount of cash flowing to upper “management” and the hedge fund billionaires.
They’re humping with the big boy engine. It’s blowing its steam all over everyone’s faces and building America. Proud to work here.
Im not a switchman, but Ive worked around hump yards. The ones I saw in east texas and in missouri seemed to switch out a lot more cars faster than flat yards see sawing back and forth. Plus utilizing gravity instead of diesel to help move cars is ‘green’. Anyway I am asking what was eliminating hump yards supposed to improve?