Bailey Yard Panorama
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Bailey Yard Panorama
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Union Pacific's Bailey Yard located in North Platte, Nebraska is the worlds largest rail yard. It is where the east meets west on the Union Pacific line, and where 10,000 cars are handled each day on 2,850 acres of land stretching out eight miles.
This is a very small panorama of the Bailey Yard. This image is of the East Bowl Tracks. It is where the rail cars are sorted onto the 64 different bowl tracks to be couples with trains heading off to different destinations along the Union Pacific's route.
These tracks are called Bowl Tracks 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 are ready to head out.
Copyright 2016 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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August 25th, 2016
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