Going over the Hump

The Los Angeles Yard also known as Taylor Yard was constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad along the banks of the L.A. River in Glendale in 1925.

    A repair and and storage facility, Taylor Yard's most interesting feature was the "hump", an incline were cars were uncoupled and allowed to coast down a myriad of side tracks to form other trains or to head to the repair barns. Up until the seventies one could mount a rickety old wooden pedestrian bridge and walk out over the center of the yard, watching the cars slowly make their way through the switches to the assembling trains. This yard is now gone, destined to be an industrial and recreational park,
another victim of the escalating value of property in Los Angeles.