Pull in Track which are Empty & Main Yard at Lambert Point's Main Coal Yard, 1960

Taken from Barney Yard (the hump yard). A fuller view of the main coal yard at Lambert's Point. The coal cars here are a portion of the 7,000 to 8,000 cars this yard ordinarily holds. The empty tracks in the foreground are the pull-in tracks. There are four or five coal testing companies that have employees in the main coal and Barney Yards. These men are constantly climbing cars for coal samples to be tested. There is also a considerable number of car riders in the Barney yard who ride coal cars to the piers. Sometimes there are ship personnel near the east end of the main coal yard. There are also car repairers, clerks, roundhouse personnel and other regular yard employees scattered throughout the Lambert's Point yard. Engine crews must be and are on the alert continuously for these men. The Lambert's Point yard has many curves--first to the right and then to the left--which also require the engineman and the fireman to be on the alert at all times. Because of the heavy tonnage being handled, two units are in operation on all crews.