Union Pacific's Bailey Yard North Platte Nebraska
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2018
- Bailey Yard is the world’s largest railroad yard and is owned by Union Pacific. After going through the visitors center I went up to the 8 story Golden Spike Tower. Sorry for the bad drone footage. The gimble malfunction and it was very windy. So I did manage to get some footage.
it's mind boggling how they keep track of which car gets to their final destination
I Always wonder that. I wonder what happens when a train goes down the wrong track. You know that has happened I'm sure. Thanks for watching.
@@MarkTheLostTraveler I rarely happens when an entire train goes down the wrong track. In the yard, trains are being put together (they are not trains at this point, just cars being sorted). Cars are sorted by a switching list each operator has. The Yardmaster controls the switches to each track and knows which car into each track - it's called classifying. In a Classification Yard, each yard track is a destination (city or region).
I know a woman who worked there, doing the logistics of the whole thing. It was pretty stressful and she didn’t last long.
Lots of computers are involved and I believe all cars have a type of barcode. I dont think everything is automated but MUCH is although humans are still involved in the various processes. [Nate the Yard superintendent gave a 2 tour a couple of years ago which I was able to attend. His office has numerous computers and video screens. [The tour is NOT available to the general public otherwise he wouldnt have any time remaining to actually do his job.] PS...Thanks Nate, it was a great tour.]
No different than a merchant shipping company like Evergreen or Marsk accurately tracking hundreds of millions of shipping containers and their contents at any time globally. Airport luggage tracking works pretty much the same way. Most of that computerized cargo manifest tracking tech was invented right here in the USA by Union Pacific and former Southern Pacific in the 1970s. Block Chain is the next frontier of logistics
NOW, I have a reason to see Nebraska. Thanks for the nice slow walk through the place.
Thank you brad for watching.
I’ve stopped there more than once. It’s mesmerizing to watch the hump yards work! 👍 If you stop there and go up in the tower be sure to take your binoculars.
Pretty cool place. Thanks for watching.
Telephoto lens.
Just imagine that yard used to be filled with big boys and many more
Now that must of been a awesome site to see. Thanks for watching.
Union Pacific: "Come on in, brother!"
CSX: "GET OF'ER MY PROPERTY!!!"
Amen! You better believe it.
NS too. They’re stupid strict.
Uptight East Coasters. The Western US seems more laid back
Visited there this summer. I had seen videos of the place before on UA-cam but in person it was bigger and busier than what I expected. My wife had no clue as to what to expect and was totally amazed at everything. Well worth the short detour off of I-80. Thanks for sharing.
Very clever: "More trains than you can keep TRACK of" :) :)
My uncle was a comms engineer for B&O-->Chessie-->CSX........ saw the rail yards at Ashland, Kentucky and thought it couldn't possibly be outsized....... this is spectacular.
I loved the smell of trains in the early 60's, he'd take me from Baltimore to Youngstown and back...... in those days the B&O locomotives were that deep dark blue. The smell of diesel, who knows what other oils, the cooking....... wonderful memories. I have yet to get to the B&O Museum, only 40 minutes from here. Thanks for this excellence, LostTraveler.
That’s pretty cool about your uncle and the things you did with him. Thanks for watching.
WOW. thank you for your time and effort filming and sharing this.
Your welcome and thanks for watching.
Now THAT'S what I call a big train set layout! Mine as a kid just wrapped around our Christmas tree a couple of times.....
Nothing like a train going around the Christmas tree.Thank you for watching.
A train lover's heaven!
Yes it is lots to see there. Thanks for watching.
Back in the day, I worked at the SP hump yard in Houston - Inglewood...or Englewood. One of our road crews had to work off some time agreed upon by the SP and the union. I thought it was huge, but this is really huge. On another note, the five hundred million dollar investment in the Brazos Yard located In Mumford, Texas where the old MoP and SP lines ran parallel, has now been put on hold after much work has already been done. About five or so miles from Mumford, the old Hearne yard, once a thriving place and a good provider of jobs by the SP, is now more or less a ghost town.
Very cool video. Thanks for sharing the video tape and some nice drone footage. You can tell it was windy.
Thank you for uploading this. It would be very cool to see in person!
Great of you to upload this as I always wondered what the Tower was like. A visit is now on my bucket list.
Lots to see and read. You will have a fun time and thank you for watching.
Thanks man!
Will probably never get the chance to see this in real life, so this is perfect. Appreciate it.
Maybe you might get out there. Never say never. Thank you for watching.
@@MarkTheLostTraveler I would most definitely never say never!
No worries from my end Mark, I like this. I've always been a 'train' enthusiast. The clip of the young woman operating the SD40 and slug by remote control brought to mind something I heard as a younger man though in my case it was manning the bridge on ships … "Big boys (and girls) playing with the Big Toys."
Aren't those SD40-2s?
@@trainandtruckmodeler786 Yep!.
My dads from North Platte. My grandfather was a railroad man. I really have great memories from there. This was great.
Katz just wondering how did you find this video. Only reason Im asking is the other day it had 500 view's now im at 100k thank you. It very nice im just wondering if it was on some site everybody saw.
MarkTheLostTraveler just was on my feed on recommendations. Then I went to your page. Seems if you put a like on something, other sites that are similar will show up as a recommendation you may like. And you have a wonderful collection here. I love trains of all kinds. Makes me think of my grandfather and I miss him a lot.
I got chills watching this. A bucket list item for sure.
Hope you get out there one day.
Thank you so much for your video! Your video is really great! Next time I come to USA I'll go to North Platte for a visit! This railway facility is amazing! Thank you from Austria, Vienna.
Thank you. I love Austria.
My great-grandfather is Victor von Goetz, an Austrian immigrant who settled in North Platte in the 1880s. Initially he worked for Union Pacific and later became the town's mayor.
Wow the town mayor how cool. Thank you for watching @@MrValue
@@MarkTheLostTraveler He also was a photographer who covered two tours with Buffalo Bill. Cody wanted the negs but they couldn't agree on the price so Victor loaded them up in his wagon, took them donw to the Platte and threw them in the river.
you also should go to Ely, Nevada for the Nevada Northern
The Holy Grail for model railroaders and railroad buffs alike... Bailey Yard... Great stuff thanks for posting...
Thank you Dwight hopefully I’ll get back there this year again. Thank you for watching
Just got off the phone with the folks at Bailey Yard tourist facility. Big event the First week of August for 3 days. Open to the public etc etc. It would be great if I could make it and... you can have your radio to monitor their frequencies for their operations. Thanks for taking the time to get back to me.
Man, that is awesome! I would've never known about this if it didn't hit my youtube channel. That's a cool yard!
Wow rail fan loves this thank you for showing us
It's a great place. Thank you for watching.
This is a Great video. I did not know North Platte had a visitors center, very Interesting.
Yes, there is a lot of info there at the visitors center. Thank you for watching
very cool Mark! I am from Nebraska and still live here, but somehow I never have the time to stop when passing NP. Definitely on my list to see this year though. Thanks to the video!!
I think most people never see some of the cool things in there state for some reason. Or until they get ready to move then they try to go see evrything. Dont be that person. Get out there. You never no when its your last day.
10:19 there's still quite a few HLCX power still here! That's what I saw hen I visited in 2016 (but there were AC6000CWs instead of SD9043MACs)
11:45 nice catch of some locos being shunted into the shop!
Bailey yard is such an amazing place ot see some neat motive power (I saw an SP AC44CW during my visit)
I saw 2 Norfolk southern engines and a csx leaving to see big boy 4014 after touring the yard, this summer
Wish this Covid stuff would end soon... I have to get here asap! Mind you we live aboard..just checked and it's a 7794 mile trip.. It is on our bucket list.. Thanks Mark for fueling the fire! That was a great video..
Glad you liked it. Covid has put a hold on everything. Hope you get out there. Thanks for watching.
8:44 Thyssen Krupp Elevator You are first in railroads - we are first in Elevators! 😄
I’m shocked of how long Union Pacific has been going, Building America ✊🏻 🇺🇸
They have been around a long time. Thanks for watching.
Thank you from Hawaii🤙🏽 for sharing this awesome vid
Thank you for watching.
Lady with remote control, Amazing!
Until you have use a belt pack
This is a great video! Thank you!
Happy you like it. Thank you for watching.
It really is amazing re: remote operations. Great video
Who would of every though of remote ops one day. Thank you for watching,
From an Aussie that was really cool
i am an engineer for the union pacific railroad in north platte nebraska since 1998, things with the rail roads have changed alot in and around this yard. less people working, bigger and longer trains, unit sets that are junk, cant wait to retire, all my up stuff is going in the trash. lol
I worked for the airlines and boy have things change. Very sad. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic, great great !!!!!!!!.
Thank you for watching.
Superb video, wonderful to see the visitor center, we have nothing here in England like that.
Glad you like the video. That is an awesome place. A lot of train action going on. Thank you for watching.
Looks like the railyard in our Immersive Railroading Minecraft server..
All those SD90's, Up has been selling them off like hotcakes..
Graffiti gives a car character though. But only the good looking stuff..
KCS uses radio controlled locomotives also, I actually work on that system as part of my IT and comms contract with KCS. It's like operating a drone with the little OLED screen and stuff.
The HCLX and GATX locos are leaser units and UP has a deal with those companies to service their locomotives since the home companies do not have a diesel shop. KCS here has the deal to service small railroads power since they have the facilities to do so.
Freaking 90 Macs sucked, Good riddance.
We went to North Platte ~4 yrs. ago. It is about 300 miles W of Omaha on I-80. What can I say? Despite some of the bumpy ride, it was extremely well worth it!!! The people of North Platte were very friendly to us; both in our hotel and shopping opportunities!😊❗
The Golden Spike Tower is a must-see. The museum video and gift shop were beautiful. Outside the museum is the flag area and state monuments describing U.P.'s history with them. There are picnic areas; but please note the Museum goes to great lengths to keep the grounds pristine! (continued)
I will have to make a trip back there. Thank you for watching.
I love UP trains! Huge yard, so many trains!
Oh you would love that place. There is a lot of stuff to see you there. Thank you for watching
That was cool,, thanks !!
Cool vid...I love trains 🚂
Awesome video👍🏼. Would love to see this yard someday, truly a monumental feet of engineering
Yes, Its amazing how big that place is. Thanks for watching.
I lived and worked in North Platte for a short time, beautiful area.
I need to go back. Thank you for watching.
wow great video
Thank you and thank you for watching.
The place is enormous. At no single vantage point can a viewer appreciate even 20% of the facility.
The golden spike tower is the best place for an overall view. Unless you get a drone up in the air and take a look around. Thank you for watching.
@@MarkTheLostTraveler Yes. What I said isn't accurate.
Let me restate it...
"After being in the yard maybe 100 times... I still can't comprehend the boundaries from ground level."
Awesome video! Kudos on a great job my friend! Keep up the great work!
Thank Steve happy you liked it and thank you for watching.
I live over by the J. R. Davis Rail Yard, its the largest classification yard on the west coast (keyword there is coast), second largest classification yard west of the Mississippi. That informative video gave me a lot of insight into what goes on over at the J. R. Davis Rail Yard. That alone earned this a thumbs up.
Thanks Lesli for watching. I need to get over to the J.R Davis Rail yard one day.
@@MarkTheLostTraveler It certainly has some interesting, yet obscure history to it. Years ago an event took place known locally as the "Roseville Explosion" when 19 of 21 cars loaded with bombs bound for Mare Island exploded and then part 2 of the "Roseville Explosion" took place when the yard began expansion and rebuilding and discovered several live bombs buried in the ground.
Thanks for sharing this video! Very well done,entertaining and informative! I hope to see it in person sometime! Merry Christmas 🎄!
Happy you like it. I Hope you get to see it in person. It is unbelievable the number of trains there. Thank you for watching.
I've passed by there so many times and I've never been able to find the time to go.
Thanks for the video
Thank you for watching.
Awesome video thank you
A very interesting video 👍
I’m glad you thought it was an interesting video. Thank you for watching.
Great video Mark!
Thank you scotty for watching.
It is an amazing place to visit. Nebraska is beautiful
Yes it is. Thank you for watching.
Wow, and I thought Darling Harbour yard was huge. When covid is all over, I’m so going there
You wont be disappointed lots to see there.. Thanks for watching.
It is really cool to go up in the tower. One of the cooler things I have done.
2042?
Pretty cool video. I think I drove past this one time heading to Washington State but did not stop. Damnit!. Cool video and it looks like a lot of people think so too. Over 200,000 views. that's cool.
Union Pacific. A maior empresa ferroviaria do mundo!
I would love to see corn again as far as the eye can see. I miss that so much!!!
It was definitely a lot of corn to see. Along with a lot of trains. Thank you for watching.
Those red and blue locomotives are leased units
Great vedio
Definitely a lot of train action going on there. Thank you for watching
I just drove to Nebraska in January from Arizona if i would of only known.
Wow very interesting video dear friend 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thank you, I like all the food on your channel. Thank you for watching.
I love trains and this video is very cool
Thank you for watching.
the yard reminds me of my model trains and that lady with the remote is me controlling them :)
I'm sure she has fun or at least I hope so. Thank you for watching.
@@MarkTheLostTraveler your welcome 👍
Amazing stuff.
Great place to visit. Thank you for watching.
I was there some 20 years prior, when the "Observation Tower" was just a small 10 ft high, 20 long platform.
A lot different now. Thanks for watching.
The HLCX and blue locos are leased power.
They look smaller than the usual UP loco, so they probably save money by leasing the few small ones they need.
Wasn't sure what the NLCX and Blue engines were there for. Thanks for the info and watching.
Fascinating!! 👍🎉🌈🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Its a great place to watch a lot of action, Thanks for watching.
301 rail sets wide that sounds insane
That's crazy, nobody ever talks about North Platte! You can see the Spike from my house. It's gorgeous in the evening.
Im sure it makes for some good sunset photos. Thank you for watching.
Wow so much trains!! I like it
You should visit there if you get the chance. Thanks for watching
Your welcome 😁
Being a train buff I thought that place was pretty cool when I visited back in 2016!!
Pretty fun place to visit. Thank you for watching.
thanks for the vid
An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
Thank very much and thank you for watching.
After Pearl Harbour,the Japanese Admiral remarked,.."all we have done is awoken a sleeping giant",.never a truer phrase spoken..The Americans are just phenominal in whatever they do.They have to be admired..This Yard is simply stunning,fantastic..and should be added to the list of the seven wonders of the world....America,i salute you...!!!!!!
HLCX and GATX are railroad leasing companies who lease out motive power to companies who need extra temporary units.
Thank you for watching.
RIP Stobe! I think of you every morning commute to work in Baltimore. This video is so you RIP
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Saigiri Izumi Stobe the Hobo. Check him out on YT. He was one of the first UA-camrs to film his hobo adventures. He has many cool videos from Bailey yard but hiding on reasons not as a tourist.
@@mevfd1769 He was an individual who rode trains illegally. He was killed during one such trespassing incident. Despite numerous reports to UA-cam to close these "hobo" channels that advocate for engaging in illegal and highly dangerous activities, YT allows them to persist. But ohhhhh noooo, don't let anyone file a DCMA complaint on a broadcaster because they might have a snippet of a someone else's video that the creator wants to nitpick about, even if used as "creative commons". THEN YT will shut things down.
I subscribed because I wanted to see more Adventures
Thank you
I ❤ Union Pacific!
Even though it’s making Amtrak service slow.
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Amtrak doesn't use the same lines... a track goes through McCook, ne 70 miles south
Very Nice this vídeo
Glad you liked it. Thank you for watching
So many loco's! Reminds me of Toton MPD in the UK.
A Lot to see there. Thank you for watching.
We came through North Platte in August ‘18, and approached the Golden Spike from the south. That was our orientation when we went up in the tower the south was behind us. The trains going to the left, east by your reckoning we’re heading West. Same with your “West” bound trains that are actually heading east.
Thought I would point that out.
When Big Boy 4014 embarks on its system "Grand Tour", it's likely coming through Bailey on its way to Omaha, Iowa and Missouri.
I want to go there!
My father actually worked there for a long while until me and my brother grew up and moved away. I got to head into the yard with my mother sometimes to bring him his lunch when he forgot it, the only thing is that I had to stay in the vehicle and not get out.
I have to say that it is very loud without earplugs, and they have to supply earplugs to workers for safety reasons (I still have some my father gave me to this day and they work better than store bought in my opinion). I sure do miss that town, and maybe I'll visit once again in the future just to go down memory lane and chat with some of my father's friends as well to see how they're doing.
A neat bit of information about the different colored helmets they wear there is that the people wearing the white helmets are usually managers, foremen, or supervisors. My father was one of those people.
That is so cool to go see your dad there at the yard. Thank you for watching
Union Pacific Paradise is Awesome so is a legends power of working trains
That is the place to go for some UP power. Thanks for watching.
I ❤ Nebraska!
Great movie, every thing are so D.... bit in the us, iám from Denmark we got fast trains but not very big trains as in the us. Nice to watch. Thx
Really we have a lot of long trains but very little fast ones and the ones that are fast are really not that fast.150mph, Thanks for watching.
Hi! I was controlling that 317-417 switcher remote near the end of the video. (The 317 is the front (mother unit) -that 417 is what we call a slug and doesn’t start up/run)
Oh my god that was you that is so cool. Do you still work there? I might be out the way this summer I’ll have to ring you up if you’re around maybe I can get a special tour lol have a great day and thank you for watching
LOL....sadly those used to be Cadillac road power in my dad's days and a little in mine. It's weird to see these as yard switchers ...
It is amazing that Bailey has survived since UP has embraced PSR!
I’m from North Platte it is truly impressive we have a A lot of interesting history here because of the Railyard there is one story of how the people of North Platte and the railyard teamed up to help during World War II keeping moral up
I want to get back there soon. Thanks for watching.
@@MarkTheLostTraveler Absolutely I enjoyed it
All the red locomotives are rentals. Also the remote control engines must be very handy since you can stay out of the train and and couple and see better
The yard is amazing, but how cool that Optimus Prime did the video in the welcome center lol
Great place to visit. Thank you for watching.
Best video I've ever seen. The only thing I care about are trains. Trains this! Trains that! If your not talking about trains? I won't talk to you. Im mentally challenged, but that's ok.
I think we’re all mentally challenged. I try to do mostly Trains every once in a while I’ll do something different. Thank you for watching.
I'd love to visit there
You wont be disappointed. Thank you for watching.
Good morning from SE Louisiana 2 Mar 21.
Thank you for watching Bill.
The locals laugh at the tower & think it's an embarrassing joke
Well that's interesting. Thanks for watching
Thank you. Wow
Thank you for watching.
I Love it Thank You
Thank you for watching.
My god, that's a lotta locos.
I like this train yard
Nice and big and a lot going on. Thanks for watching.
Your welcome
And also I’m going watch o their one
I had to laugh when you said "and that is looking eastbound" @11:43 when you are looking westbound at the repair shop and the Eastbound Classification Yard. :)
LOL Yes i got east and west a little backwards. Thanks for watching.