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Bailey Yard

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Thursday, 21st April 2005

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Especially for Andrew Scott, we’re finally posting some trains :-)

Union Pacific’s classification yard in North Platte, Nebraska is the world’s largest railroad classification yard. The yard is made up of 315 miles of track, and up to 10,000 railroad cars are handled here each day. Wikipedia says:

Because of the enormous amount of products traveling through Bailey yard each and every day, the yard is sometimes referred to as being an “economic barometer of America”

Trains

Thanks Jeff Jones and dan.

6 Responses to 'Bailey Yard'

  1. Holy CRAP that is a big train yard!

  2. Justin says:

    Is that a junkyard to the upper right hand corner?

  3. Jack says:

    Placemark: This / Google Earth appears to be a parking lot. If you were referring to something else, then I don’t know.

  4. Car Guy says:

    Definitely a junk yard!

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  5. John says:

    I was just there last week. The place is amazing. The trains come in, are taken apart, and the individual cars are organized into new trains. Two man crews do the work by driving engines around by remote control, one man stands at the end of each train as it is being built. Everything is under the control of yard managers in towers.

    There is talk that the town is going to build a ten story observation tower so people can watch the comings and goings. Nobody seems to know when that’s going to happen.

  6. Brogs says:

    Does anyone know where I can get a nighttime satelite photo like this showing the Bailey Yard illuminated?

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