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where switch engines manually shuffle and maneuver cars from (a) train arrival tracks, to (b) a consist breakdown track, to (c) a consist assembly track, thence to (d) departure tracks of the yard.
** A large subgroup of such yards is known as staging yards, which serve as end destinations and collection yards, starting car groups for departure. These seemingly incompatible tasks arise because the operating or road company and its locomotive drop off empties and pick up full cars waiting for departure, which have been spotted and assembled

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