Bailey Yard is the world’s largest railroad
classification yard.
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Bailey Yard personnel sort, service and repair
locomotives and cars headed all across North America. Owned and operated by
the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Bailey Yard is located in North Platte,
Nebraska. The yard is named after former Union Pacific president Edd H.
Bailey.
An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars
pass through Bailey Yard every day, and the yard sorts approximately 3,000
cars daily using the yard’s two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot-tall
mound and the westbound hump is 20 feet high. These are used to sort four
cars a minute into one of the 114 "bowl" tracks, 49 tracks for the
westbound trains and 65 for eastbound. The bowl tracks are used to form
trains headed for destinations across North America, including the East, West
and Gulf coasts of the United States, and Canadian and Mexican borders.
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Bailey Yard, North Platte, NE |
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