I know railroads have certain cars that have that printed on them. It means that car or whatever cargo it has is not capable of the stress and forces of going through a hump yard and rolling down and bumping into other cars, potentially at damaging speeds
Actually they utilize inertia, not necessarily created by gravity. A good shove from an engine and an entire line of railcars will travel a very long distance before either coupling with other cars or hitting a railstop. My local railyard is located about two miles away on the banks of the Fraser River and as level as a billiards table. Humping is prohibited but occasionally happens, always in the very wee hours of the morning. It echo's up the surrounding hills sounding like carpet bombing.
You’re not wrong, but most hump yards do have a hill that sends the rail cars down for sorting.
“Hump yards, also known as classification yards, are generally segmented into three parts: the receiving yard, the classification bowl and the departure yard. A manifest train carrying mixed freight enters the receiving area and prepares for sorting by climbing a small artificial hill on the lead track. At the crest of the hill, a yard worker then uncouples from the train a single car or a block of cars that are intended for a specific destination track.”
Yep, was pretty sure that was the case. How ever the first thing my mind went to was that they had issues with people humping them, and had to put a warning label of sorts on it.
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