N&W in 1910--Hump yard

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Yes, the Portsmouth, Ohio yard did use a motor car to get the COAL
Classification Hump riders back up the hump.  It was not a trolley- no third
rail or overhead catenary.  

 

Gary Rolih

Cincinnati

 

 

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
December 2, 1910

 

 

[Was the trolley line ever operated in the Portsmouth hump yard?  It sounds
as though switchmen were riding the cars into the hump yard tracks, meaning
that the retarders came later.  If this is the same hump that existed into
modern times, a track in a tunnel crossing under the hump from one side to
the other was added later.]

 Gordon:

Portsmouth had TWO hump yards until about 1975 --

1- The coal hump

2- The time freight hump.

The time freight hump only classified westbound trains ONLY and didn't
operate on first trick.  With one hump

crew, a yardmaster, and a CRO (Car Retarder Operator), the time freight hump
was much more efficient than

Bellevue.  Sounds as though retarders came later, but remember East Yard at
Bluefield still used car riders

into the 70's.  One track was kept clear for a motor car to pick up the car
riders and bring them back to

the yard office to ride another cut of coal toward "RD".  Harry Bundy  

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