Enola Hump 1993

It's been nearly 2 decades since Conrail closed the original Westbound Hump at Enola Yard near Harrisburg, PA This video was taken in the final days of hump operation and illustrates the attention and skill required from the retarder operators who sometimes had to work two different sets of retarders using both hands at the same time, while also making sure the cars didn't run into each other and also giving them the right speed to reach the coupling point. Also shown are the venerable U23C's which were purchased by PC for this duty and were living on borrowed time at the time of the video. NS has reopened this hump but it is all computerized.

Видео Enola Hump 1993 канала fmnut