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  2. Bailey Yard - Wikipedia

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    Bailey Yard is the world's largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America. Owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Bailey Yard is located in North Platte, Nebraska. The yard is named after former Union Pacific president Edd H. Bailey.

  3. North Platte, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    North Platte was established in 1866 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. [6] It derives its name from the North Platte River. [7] [8]North Platte was the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway from December 1866 until the next section to Ogallala was opened the following year. [9]

  4. History of the Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The railroad bridged the North Platte River over a 2,600-foot-long (790 m) bridge at North Platte, Nebraska, in December 1866 after completing about 240 miles (390 km) of track that year. In late 1866, General Grenville M. Dodge was appointed Chief Engineer on the Union Pacific; Casement continued to work as chief construction boss and his ...

  5. Union Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska; Beaumont Yard in Beaumont, Texas; ... Nebraska, in July 2015. According to UP's 2007 Annual Report to Investors, at the end of ...

  6. Buffalo Bill Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park, known as Scout's Rest Ranch, is a living history state park located west of North Platte, Nebraska.The ranch was established in 1878 with an initial purchase of 160 acres south of the Union Pacific tracks by William (Buffalo Bill) Cody.

  7. EMD DDA40X - Wikipedia

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    6922 – Cody Park, North Platte, Nebraska. 6925 – Stored at Dakota Southern Railway’s rail yard located in Chamberlain, South Dakota, having been used as a parts source and for fuel storage. It was owned by the Nebraska Railroad Museum, until October 2022, when it was sold to a private owner in Kansas City. [13]

  8. Platte County Voter Guide: What’s on the ballot, what ... - AOL

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    The 2024 KC Voter Guide is a collaboration between The Kansas City Star and the KC Media Collective. All voter guide content is free and outside of the paywall. Platte County voters will have the ...

  9. Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad) - Wikipedia

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    The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...