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hump yard [′həmp ‚yärd] (civil engineering) A switch yard in a railway system that has a hump or steep incline down which freight cars can coast to prescheduled locations. Also known as gravity yard. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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There was the possibility of incorporating parts of the students' problems into myself and vice versa-organizing classes as a kind of "washing machine," a hump yard of fragments. Harrison, "from a couple of old hump yards, IC is creating Chicago's premier multi-carrier intermodal hub complex. |
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