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Railroad Classification Yard Technology Manual. Volume I : Yard Design Methods

P J Wong, M Sakasita, William A. Stock, C Elliott, M A Hackworth

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This volume (Volume I) documents the procedures and methods associated with the design of railroad classification yards. Subjects include: site location, economic analysis, yard capacity analysis, design of flat yards, overall configuration of hump yards, hump yard track and switch layout, hump profile design, and hump trim-end design. Volume II is concerned with the design and specification of the yard computer systems, i.e., yard inventory and process control computer systems.

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Key concepts: Yard, Volume (thermodynamics), Engineering, Transport engineering, Computer science, Physics, Quantum mechanics