I work in the Hump Yard in East St Louis, Alton and Southern Railroad. We have one Hump with 66 bowl tracks its the biggest in our area. This is Huge compared to ours! and its one of two holy crap. I love shoving up the 40 foot limestone cars up our hump. At night they rev to notch 8 and sometimes sparks and fire shoot from the exhaust! its quite a site!
Further to my post below I just discovered a bit of old movie footage showing the hump at the old Feltham Yard. If you're interested go to 8:51 at - watch?v=7O8LJmCDukA - I gather a few accidents occured amongst shunters during it's working life and you can see why. These men had to be on the ball.
There used to be a hump yard at Feltham, near Heathrow {U.K}. It opened in 1923 and closed in 1969. I don't think there are any working hump yards left in the U.K. There is talk about using the land of the old hump yard at Feltham for a new train depot...But there's lots of local resident objections.
i live a half mile directly south of this not as kool when u have to listen to them all night and day and the crossin where they come in the yard the usualy wait is ne where form 30min to and hour!!!
That is remarkable!!! Nice to see trains on the go, traveling America with all sorts of merchandise, from car parts to electronics to different kinds of bulk fuels petroleum products and lumber, and last but not least coal trains. This is an excellent video, have a cousin that works there maybe some day he can give me a tour of this ysrd!!!!!!!
hear that scretching noise? thats the noise of money being made!
howardkevinm 7 months ago
Bailey humps more than Charlie Sheen!
mmmegameat 1 year ago
I work in the Hump Yard in East St Louis, Alton and Southern Railroad. We have one Hump with 66 bowl tracks its the biggest in our area. This is Huge compared to ours! and its one of two holy crap. I love shoving up the 40 foot limestone cars up our hump. At night they rev to notch 8 and sometimes sparks and fire shoot from the exhaust! its quite a site!
machapu 1 year ago
Further to my post below I just discovered a bit of old movie footage showing the hump at the old Feltham Yard. If you're interested go to 8:51 at - watch?v=7O8LJmCDukA - I gather a few accidents occured amongst shunters during it's working life and you can see why. These men had to be on the ball.
JollyRodders 1 year ago
There used to be a hump yard at Feltham, near Heathrow {U.K}. It opened in 1923 and closed in 1969. I don't think there are any working hump yards left in the U.K. There is talk about using the land of the old hump yard at Feltham for a new train depot...But there's lots of local resident objections.
JollyRodders 1 year ago
great it would be nice if there were more vids on bailey yard
lukasfols1 1 year ago
this was on tv to i think it was modern marvels
miked9372 2 years ago
@miked9372 it was and it is the Freight Trains Episode. The narrator even explains how a hump works.
UP5314 1 year ago
@miked9372 it was the episode was Freight Trains the first part talks about Bailey Yard
geomodelrailroader 9 months ago
nice vid i subbed you
vvbnsf 2 years ago
Great video!! I will have more videos very soon. Along with new pictures
BaileyYard 2 years ago
Sweet vid...I'll be visiting this yard this upcoming Friday with my fiance on our way to Flagstaff, AZ
nels1jac 3 years ago
i live a half mile directly south of this not as kool when u have to listen to them all night and day and the crossin where they come in the yard the usualy wait is ne where form 30min to and hour!!!
kolb7 3 years ago
That is remarkable!!! Nice to see trains on the go, traveling America with all sorts of merchandise, from car parts to electronics to different kinds of bulk fuels petroleum products and lumber, and last but not least coal trains. This is an excellent video, have a cousin that works there maybe some day he can give me a tour of this ysrd!!!!!!!
sittinsidewayzz 3 years ago
Ive seen some parts of the yard in person,and heard them clanging around at night.cool
toolbox58 3 years ago
Thats amazing! You hardly see these anymore!
adfgfds 3 years ago 2
Cool stuff!
amtrakboy627 3 years ago 4
i agree.
do you think one day you can get a video of the cars entering the yard?
RailFanDavid 3 years ago 3
Cool, hump yards are always fun to watch in action.
mafarnz 3 years ago 7