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yard at DeWitt, NY
Westbound classification yard and retarders
Yard at DeWitt, NY
Retarder towers in view
Yard #1604 at DeWitt, NY
Hump tower, hump signal, bowl tracks, sand tower, fueling racks and other facilities
Westbound humper, retarder towers in view
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…
View of yard includes the general yard office and #8515
At the same location, the camera here faces across the yard to the north. Behind the shanties, the westbound humper is shoving the last twenty-odd cars of a re-hump cut up the hump. Beyond are running tracks through the middle of the yard, locomotive…
View of westbound hump including retarder ntowers
On the west side of Rotnour bridge, we look across the mains and freight running tracks to the heart of DeWitt yard. The westbound hump is in action in the foreground, while WD-4 continues over the much higher eastbound hump in the right background.…
View of westbound hump includes the fueling station
In the foreground, the westbound humper is just completing its shove, while WD-4's cars are still on the long approach to the eastbound hump. Tracks 14 and 17 are the running tracks between the fueling station and the westbound hump lead. Towers 1,…
U-30B #2880 at DeWitt, NY
At DeWitt Yard