Yesterday we departed Lincoln and headed to Sidney, NE with a long stop in North Platte, NE to visit Bailey Yard which is the largest railroad yard in the world. We enjoyed the humping of the railroad cars (both east and west bound) to form new trains and the moving around of the engines. Their locomotive repair facility can handle around 85 engines for routine maintenance or rebuilding at once. A retired employee of Union Pacific was in the tower answering all the questions of the visitors. The yard is 8 1/2 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide.
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