today's trivia
In what US state would we find the largest and busiest railroad yard?
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1mo
Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska is 8 miles long and 2 miles wide. It can accommodate 14,000 rail cars and handles 140-150 trains per day or about one train every 10 minutes (24/7).
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1mo
It's pretty cool - the land is absolutely flat, but they have these little hills on both the eastbound and westbound sides that the push lines of rail cars up, then release each one at the top and they roll down one of 8 or 10 tracks to the end of the correct train.
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1mo
only woman on the construction/design unit.
They were working on the new Ironto rail yard at that time.
But I vaguely remember her talking about some giant yard in Nebraska. It’s in an area I had worked near years ago. It’s also where the world’s largest beef processing plant was located. Lots of trains bringing that cattle in.
** Edited by Stork at 6/18/2026, 7:58:29 AM
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