Waycross Georgia's Rice Hump Yard in operation.m4v 

My dad worked here for 30 years and I've never seen a video like this. Thank you for this view!

i watched an hour-long special on hump yards- it had all the intense music and fancy camera work. this 5 minute video was so much more informative and interesting- great job

This was really amazing. I didn’t even know they did it this way. I would love to see this in person happening. It’s rather a wow factor for me. I’m always watching the live camera just outside the yard. Thank you for putting this up.

This is the biggest and best HO train layout I've ever seen. The size and detail is awesome! Great gob!

Very nice...! Thanks for taking time to stop there, at Waycross, and share some transportation history and how things are done...! Gordon

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of weight, temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and other variables, the freight car will do as it damn well pleases.

Our train club went to the hump yard close to us many years ago to see the operation. We were all in the tower and getting a lecture on how the retarders worked and all of that stuff. There was a gondola with ballest in it and the fellow (talked down to us pretty much all of the time because we were "model train" people) and wanted to show us how good he was at keeping the cars in control. He had this car going toward one of two retarders and put on the break. So much that the car stopped in the retarder. He released the breaks completely but the car didn't move. He laughed and said that he would get that car going. The next cat to go on that same track wa going toward the retarder and he hit the stalled gondola hard so it would move. Well --- it did move but only a few short feet because a lot of the rock went flying and jammed the retarder. I don't know how many hours the retarder was jammed nut we found out that this was not the first time he had did this but it was the last. He no longer worked for the railroad.

I try to visit Rice yard each year when I visit Brunswick Ga on vacation. Great video.

Grew up in Waycross. Used to go over to the yard and watch them work. Interesting to see it from this perspective.

Thank you for putting this up and providing such a detailed explanation how a hump yard works!

Wow!! I hope I'll be visiting that site soon to video tape them in action. Sooo cool!! Thanks for posting!

Thanks! I haven't seen a bar code on a freight car in a long time and wondered what was up.

This is so cool! My son works here. Thanks for the upload cmorhiker.

Hi Dave here I enjoy watching train videos I dont drive so watch my trains this way Thanks so much for posting Dave in Oregon

One of the best videos I have ever seen. I have never seen a video with all of the cars traveling free of an engine. I knew about it, but had never seen it covered on any professionally sold videos. We live in Florida and could reach Waycross in one day. Are you able to see any of this action from a vantage point available to a rail fan. Pete Rosa in Venice, FL A BIG THANKS

Yes. 1n 1980, Seaboard Coast Line merged with Chessie to form CSX. Waycross was one of 11 hump yards in the network, 9 of which still are operating.

wow..... had no idea that the yards could be that large.. hard to believe they could handle that manually without all the hitech stuff nowadays..great video, thanks much..Ernie PA

I covered the dedication ceremony for this while a reporter for The Waycross Journal-Herald. It was one of the highlights of my years there. I loved getting caught at grade crossings so I could wave at train crews then count cars.

Holy Jesus that yard is beautiful. I've worked in the Hulsey and Fairburn yards but nothing like this.

My son loved this video about hump yards!

I think I recognize the narrator's voice from Charles Smiley's film covering the Seaboard system and early CSX

Can't say. It's been almost 9 years since we had the tour. Back then the cars all had individual codes like UPCs to let the computer know what car it was (rolling characteristics, type of car, etc.) and I suppose that was being read by a laser. If new technology has superceded that, I don't know.

Great stuff!!!!! Very informative....!!

After 30 seconds I wasn't sure I was going to be able to make it to the end. By the time the video ended I was hoping for more! Good job. I hope you see your way to making a "Version 2" of this informative video with the latest video resolution The script almost doesn't need any work.

Amazing video!

nice train video and wow that's a big train yard.

It's amazing!!

Outstanding content 👍

Wow thank you for posting!

Well-done, my friend

I spent a week in Waycross one night, at the local Jail, i was just passing through on my way back to Michigan, when i got pulled over by the town Police, it didnt take them long to figure out that i had a few to many billy beers, as i rememberd they had the jail, fire dep, dog catcher, and a few more deparments i cant remember, well the next morning, i paid my fine, and hightaild it out of town, aint been back sence, that was in 1971

I worked as a skateman at the Proviso freight yard in Chicago{Melrose park} in the 60's Loved that job

Thank you for your excellent video. Now I know how trains are put together. Fascinating! Still not sure where or how the cargo gets unloaded. Have to search for another video.

Amazing! Thanks!

It's now done electronically by RFID tags. It's quicker this way, and when the cars or loco pass the reader, it's destination, and or location can be known.

Great videos of hump yard operations! I've seen a few videos of the procedure but never watched it entirely. The retarded system answers my questions of how the speed of a car could be controlled depending on how far it had to travel to its proper track assignment. Thanks for sharing this video and I'm viewing it from Delmar, Delaware.

Great video.

Thats a good sized yard for a small town! :-)

Actually the tags do not know "destination". THey only know initial and number, speed and direction of travel. That info is then matched up against the waybill in the railroad's computer.

That's southern railway big hump-yard from the 1950's I couldn't believe its still there!!!

good vidio,,amazing how it works,,years ago i worked for a bakery and they lost a car of flower somwhere,,,lol we got a couple of days off,,befor computers.

amazing.

No. That technology never really worked. A "consist list" is fed to the hump computer. Each car has a "block" or "destination" code. The hump has each code assigned to a track. Fairly easy. No "laser" readers. However, each car is "tagged" with an AEI device that is used to track the car as it moves past readers. However, hump "blocking" doesn't use that to classify cars to tracks

Good information.

Nice video, I remember pre-9/11 I could permission to photograph off of the paved roads and some times we'd just "pass thru" on our own and not get hasselled.

what a wonderful woman to visit that with you!!

Good question! I'm on max zoom there so it's not very clear. Maybe someone else can answer the question.

Not a mile wide, closer to 1/3rd mile at its widest point. But still, the choreography of moving the cars around is an amazing accomplishment.

my kid just loves this.... now i gotta build something remotely close outta wooden tracks. LOL

These days they use AEI readers. The little grey box on car sides

So cool

I've seen a lot of old railroad videos lately (quite a few showing the hump operations or classification yards). There used to be one guy with a list sitting at a panel punching buttons to process the incoming freight cars. My question is how has automation allowed for the increased speed of the cars to obtain their proper switching? I see cars that go through so fast that a car could go through the wrong switch.

It would be cool if somebody had a video of Amtrak's Floridian passing through Waycross in the 70's!

Do they still use lasers to read bar codes on each car at the hump to classify?

is that a furx sd40-2 in this video

The camera was fuzzy, out of focus until 5:02.

Trying to figure out what the third biggest yard in the U.S. is, behind Bailey Yard and Argentine Yard. Thinking this may be it, unless it's Inman Yard in Atlanta.

Awesome

I wish CSX could build a tower for rail fans so we could see a lot of this action? But I bet I don't see it in my life time and I'm 51 years old. :(

I think now they use RFID tags for sorting not 100% sure

Didn't the Waycross yard use to be own by Seaboard Railroad?

Can any body go there and see this. would love to take my grandson to see this

A friend of my grandfather lost a leg in 1941at a switching yard, he was the brakeman and another hit his car he fell off and the second car got his leg.

Like in limattal marshalling yard in swisserland. Only totaly computerized and electric locomotives and shunting robots work there.

rice yard cool i went threw there

wish I worked in a hump yard

how many cars can there be in a single cut?

Whats that small unit behind the CSX at 4:21

OUT OF FOCUS OUT OF FOCUS OUT OF FOCUS!

ALL OF THEM PRINTERS ARE LOUD AS HELL.... the humps cut list

Potentially very interesting but spoiled by the out of focus, shaky pixelated messy presentation.

They use RFID Tags now!

having a nerdgasm here lol !!!

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Most cars I have seen these days have RFID chips.

Spooky video looks like a spy video..

Well, I'll be damned - it's just like dealing a hand of cards around a table - throw 'em out there and let 'em stack up - cool!

TAKES A SLIDERULE TO FIGURE A YARD OUT

I don't know how I got here, or why this has so many views.

Rice Yard is a joke compared to UP's yard at North Platte, NB. How did you manage to get on CSX property without CIA clearance? Good video. You gave me a good laugh for today.

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