N&W in 1910--Hump yard

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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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