Conrail Elkhart Hump - 7/9/1998
July 9th, 1998 – At the hump operation of Conrail’s large Elkhart, Indiana yard facility. - Freight cars are pushed from the receiving yard up over the hump and sorted according to destination into the various tracks that fan out into the classification yard.
Ever since it was built by the New York Central in the late 1950s, this immense complex has been an important gateway throughout the years for the NYC, Penn Central, Conrail and still today for the Norfolk Southern for all types of freight traffic moving to points west.
The power on this Summer day was a nice clean, bright blue set of a Conrail SD38 and MT-6 shoving cars up and over the hump track. - SD38 #6952 is a former Penn Central unit, and MT-6 (for Motor Trailer 6 axle) #1114 was built from a former PRR/PC Alco RSD12. ~~ Jeff Hampton Photographs ©
Conrail Elkhart Hump - 7/9/1998
July 9th, 1998 – At the hump operation of Conrail’s large Elkhart, Indiana yard facility. - Freight cars are pushed from the receiving yard up over the hump and sorted according to destination into the various tracks that fan out into the classification yard.
Ever since it was built by the New York Central in the late 1950s, this immense complex has been an important gateway throughout the years for the NYC, Penn Central, Conrail and still today for the Norfolk Southern for all types of freight traffic moving to points west.
The power on this Summer day was a nice clean, bright blue set of a Conrail SD38 and MT-6 shoving cars up and over the hump track. - SD38 #6952 is a former Penn Central unit, and MT-6 (for Motor Trailer 6 axle) #1114 was built from a former PRR/PC Alco RSD12. ~~ Jeff Hampton Photographs ©