Union Pacific - Bailey Yard - North Platte Subdivision - The complete detail of yard covered.

The Complete BAILEY YARD.
This video focuses on BAILEY YARD, in North Platte, Nebraska given its own subdivision on the UP system, North Platte Subdivision. Trains for miles, as far as the eye can see. Bailey Yard is the largest railroad classification yard in the world. Named in honor of former Union Pacific President Edd H. Bailey, this massive yard covers 2,850 acres, reaching a total length of 8 miles and 2 miles wide.
Bailey Yard has 200 separate tracks totaling 400 miles, 985 switches and 1,000 turnouts.
The Yard has 18 receiving tracks, 9 eastbound, and 9 westbound. In the video, a train can be seen pulling into the eastbound receiving yard.
There are 16 departure tracks, 6 eastbound and 10 westbound, handling 14,000 rail cars every 24 hours. Here we observe a westbound leaving on the back tracks, going behind the eastbound service facility.
About 3,000 cars are sorted daily in the yard’s eastward and westward yards, nicknamed “hump” yards. Using a mound cresting 34 feet for eastbound trains and 20 feet for those heading west, the hump yards allow four cars a minute to roll gently into any of 114 “bowl” tracks. The eastbound bowl has 64 tracks, while the westbound bowl has 50. Here they become part of an average 139 trains per day, headed for destinations in the East, West and Gulf Coasts of America, as well as the Canadian and Mexican borders. Bowl Tracks are called so because the ground they sit on is actually shaped like a bowl. With the tracks ending on an incline, it prevents any of the trains from getting out of the bowl tracks before they’re ready to head out.
A worker wearing a remote control, manually pulls a handle to separate a car from a train at the top of the “hump”. After the cars are separated, they roll gently downhill using only gravity toward their designated bowl track. When they pass a so-called “retarder,” their wheels are squeezed hard enough to slow them down so that they roll easily and safely onto the proper track for their eventual destination. A computer routes the cars onto the proper track.
Signs are posted all about Bailey Yard warning of the remote-control locomotives. The technicians use remote controls like this one to operate the locomotives as they pass through the humps and other locations within the yard. The remotes give them all the control they would have if they were aboard the locomotives.
The Locomotive Repair Shop facility....
Next to the Locomotive Repair shop on the southern edge is a large servicing area....
The on-site, One-Spot car repair facility....
Further East, we find the special Ultrasonic wheel repair facility....
Just under Buffalo Bill Road, to the east, there is also the “van yard”....
Many locomotives heading eastbound, come in on run-through tracks....
Here we see an eastbound run-through head straight into the yard.
The West service facility is much smaller than its eastbound.... Hear we have this westbound train, leaving the yard on its westward venture.
Bailey Yard headquarters....
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ATCS Monitor authored by MDTmon
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UP PB-27026 North Platte Area Timetable #3 July 30, 2007

[@julianmorales309]

Holy cow! That’s my conductor class on the right side of the screen at 14:13 in the video!!!! You can see us in the green vests

[@railfanenthusiast6792]

Cool!

[@4-gear]

Great documentary 👍

[@paullindberg9230]

Nice signal bridge, its been awile since ive seen a pipe style signal bridge like this one.made of aluminum of course but thats my two cents. Old conrail train crew!