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ENGINEERING DESIGN AND OPERATIONAL STUDY OF COYOTEPEC YARD

Santiago Cardoso-Contreras, Peter J. Wong

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Coyotepec Yard, near Mexico city, is being designed to handle 6,000 cars on a peak day. The basic design and the results of computer evaluation studies are presented. Topics addressed include trim-end design; capacity of the yard; humping rate; size of receiving, classification, and departure yards; and number of inspection and yard engine crews.

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Key concepts: Yard, Transport engineering, Engineering, Physics, Quantum mechanics