FUD Wrote:
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> A yard full of cars is a yard full of customers'
> goods that aren't moving. Unless, of course:
>
> It's empties waiting for a customer's call
> It's storage in transit - otherwise known as a
> warehouse with wheels
>
> And many other possibilities for the picture,
> including but not limited to:
>
> It's waiting for arrival of more locomotives
> rendered surplus by PSR
> It's a posed picture of a yard that's just
> completed but not opened yet
> It's an interchange yard with another carrier
> that's just been cleaned out


The photo is Neff Yard in Kansas City that UP closed a few years ago along with several others in the Midwest. I hope they don't sell the real estate off. We don't know what the future holds for railroads. They could turn into a more dynamic, open access system, where small shippers are in play again, and those yards might be useful again. Who knows.

http://northeastnews.net/pages/union-pacific-closes-neff-yard-northeast/

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