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Barbaton

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May 11, 2002
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suburban hell
Isn't humping in railroad terms sorting cars by uncoupling them and pushing them over a hump so they separate and you can sort them onto different tracks? I remember reading that in some book i had as a kid...


maybe it's just a warning to the local teenagers in the railyard... :nope:
 

splat

Nam I am
Barbaton said:
Isn't humping in railroad terms sorting cars by uncoupling them and pushing them over a hump so they separate and you can sort them onto different tracks?
it is. and that is what they mean and the sign is on both ends onf that car . but it just struck me as funny . and it was also a funny co-incidance because I was on my was to a Model railroad show at the Big E.