Here are some facilities and activities of gravity switching at the NYC's DeWitt Yards, East Syracuse. Both east- and westbound humps are on the other side of the highway overpass which is just out of sight to the left. Diesel switcher no.8528 has…
At Selkirk as well as at DeWitt it is the practice to have a job furnished with a single-unit diesel working at the hump end of the class yard to shove the class tracks, re-hump mixed class tracks, correct switching errors caused by catch ups and…