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Bailey Yard is the world’s largest railroad classification yard. Owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, Bailey Yard is located in North Platte, Nebraska. The yard is named after former Union Pacific President Ed H. Bailey. A classification yard or marshalling yard (including hump yards) is a railroad yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railroad cars on to one of several tracks. ...
The Union Pacific Railroad (NYSE: UNP) is the largest railroad in the United States. ...
Grain elevator along the Union Pacific Railroad in downtown North Platte North Platte is a small city located in Lincoln County in southwestern Nebraska on Interstate Highway I-80 where the South Platte River and the North Platte River join to form the Platte River. ...
The gigantic Bailey Yard covers a total expanse of 2,850 acres (12 km²) and is over 8 miles (13 km) in length. The yard is made up of some 315 miles (507 km) worth of track, including 18 receiving and 16 departure tracks.
Bailey Yard handles over 10,000 railroad cars every day. Approximately 3,000 cars are sorted daily in the yard’s two humps. 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.” A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ...
A classification yard or marshalling yard (including hump yards) is a railroad yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railroad cars on to one of several tracks. ...
Besides being home to two humps, the yard also includes a locomotive fueling and servicing center that handles more than 8,500 locomotives per month, locomotive repair shop that can repair 750 locomotives monthly, and car repair facility that handles nearly 50 cars daily. Great Western Railway No. ...
More than 2,600 people are employed in North Platte by the Union Pacific Railroad. The majority of these employees are responsible for the day to day operations of Bailey Yard.
Bailey Yard has gradually gotten larger and larger after the first yard tracks were laid in 1948. In 1995, as a result of its massive size, the yard was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...
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