West End of Barney Yard (The Hump Yard), 1960

Shows in the left center the west end of the Barney Yard and, on the right, the west end of the Lambert's point main yard. The fireman is needed here to relay signals to the engineer because of the curvatures in all of these tracks. In humping operations, because of the length of the train and the curvatures of the track , the head-end brakeman stations himself somewhere near the middle of the train in order to relay signals from the brakeman and conductor, who are riding on the rear of the train. Sometimes the head-end brakeman can be seen only by the fireman, who must then relay the signal to the engineer. The Barney Yard also has about 1 crossovers, which make it imperative for the fireman to keep a lookout at all times for other train movements.