Template:Did you know nominations/Cedar Hill Yard

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:17, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Cedar Hill Yard

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• ... that Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut was the largest U.S. railyard east of the Mississippi River when it was completed? Source: "Its Cedar Hill Yard, opened in 1925 in New Haven, was the largest rail classification yard east of the Mississippi River" (The Hour, Traveling the rise and fall of the New Haven Railroad, October 26, 2003 [1])
  • ALT1:... that Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut could hold over 15,000 railroad cars at once? Source: "The whole complex was massive with standing room for approximately 15,000 cars. The site covered 880 acres and had 154 miles of track." ([2])

Created by Trainsandotherthings (talk). Self-nominated at 00:46, 6 September 2021 (UTC).

• This is my first DYK nom, so I am exempt from QPQ. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 00:58, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

  Quick drive-by comment, for ALT1, I would remove the acre count and just go with the number of cars. That communicates the size of it, and shorter hooks tend to do better. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:12, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

   Done Good suggestion, I have changed ALT1 accordingly.

• This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts for ALT1 are cited inline, but I cannot find the ALT0 hook facts in the article, where they must be if this hook were to be used. The article is neutral, and I detected no copyright issues. @Trainsandotherthings: For DYK, every paragraph needs at least one citation, and there are currently a couple of paragraphs without. No QPQ is needed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:59, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: All paragraphs in the article should be cited now, and I rewrote a sentence which was previously more vague to directly reference the text of ALT0. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 12:31, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

• Thank you. This is good to go with either hook. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:31, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

ALT1 to T:DYK/P2