This yard still (2021) has a hump.
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| Heather TJ Small posted Union Pacific Englewood Yard Jason Gore Houston, U.P. has two hump yards next to each other, ex MP/HB&T and ex SP, generally one yard is for east/west traffic and the other is for north/south. [The comments debate if Settegast Yard is a "mini hump" or flat switched.] Mike Mitchell  At one time it had one of the steepest humps of class yards in the US.Dale V Rockwell Remember when U.P. closed Englewood? Led to a system-wide meltdown! |
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| Steve Brown posted With the Class 1's seeming hell bent on ripping out the infrastructure to handle anything but unit trains and intermodal, it was nice to stumble on a busy hump operation at Union Pacific's Englewood Yard. Two sets of three unit vintage power (the middle critter is a slug) were shoving a cut over the hump. When one set finished, it went off to find another cut while the other set started with its cut. UP SD40N 1753 (built 1976 as UP SD40-2 8049 to UP 3319) PS6B UPY 420 (built 1974 as McCloud SD38-2 39 to UP 2824 to UPY 824, slugified in 2017) and SD40N UPY 320 (?) at Tower 87 in Houston, Texas - May 12, 2021. |
Tower 68 is on the west side and Tower 87 is on the east side under the Wayside Viaduct. [RailFanGuides] According to a satellite image, the vacant land south of the tracks and west of Lockwood Drive is now the intermodal yard.
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| 1995 Settegast Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
In fact, the hump not only still exists, UP did a significant upgrade in 2020.
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