Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Cedar Hill Yard

Cedar Hill Yard

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 5, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 20:31, 5 August 2022 (UTC)



Cedar Hill Yard is a railroad classification yard in New Haven, North Haven, and Hamden, Connecticut, in the United States. It was built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the early 1890s in and around New Haven's Cedar Hill neighborhood, which gave the yard its name. Following a substantial expansion launched in 1917, and further improvements in the 1920s, Cedar Hill Yard became one of the largest rail yards in the United States, routinely handling over 4,000 railroad cars each day on 880 acres (360 ha) of land. Following the rise of trucks and highways, and rerouting of rail traffic to newly built Selkirk Yard in New York State, Cedar Hill Yard significantly declined in importance and much of it was abandoned, as ownership was transferred to Penn Central in 1969, and subsequently Conrail in 1976. Since 1999, the yard has been owned and operated by CSX Transportation, and also hosts operations by Amtrak, the Connecticut Southern Railroad, and the Providence and Worcester Railroad.
 * Most recent similar article(s): There are no other FAs (or even GAs, now that this article is an FA) on rail yards on Wikipedia, this is the first one to ever reach FA to my knowledge. Midland Railway War Memorial which is up today is somewhat related to trains, but I don't think it's anywhere near similar enough to preclude running this article.
 * Main editors: User:Trainsandotherthings This article was almost entirely written by me.
 * Promoted: June 22, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: This is my first FA and would therefore be my first article to appear on TFA. It was promoted last month.
 * Support as nominator. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:09, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't know what a "classification yard" is without clicking. Could that be defined in the blurb? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 01:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've appended the word "railroad" before classification yard to give the reader some idea of what a classification yard means. I don't think giving a full definition makes sense, as that would take up a signification portion of the allotted characters for the blurb. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 01:20, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:03, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Edwininlondon (talk) 06:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠  04:12, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support truflip99 (talk) 17:57, 27 July 2022 (UTC)