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Union Pacific employs more than 2,600 people in North Platte, [1] most of whom are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Bailey Yard. An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day. The yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard's two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot (10 m ...
Nebraska, Wyoming and Western Railroad: CB&Q: 1899 1908 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: North-Eastern Nebraska Railroad: CNW: 1888 1888 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: Northern Nebraska Air Line Railroad: CNW: 1867 1868 Sioux City and Pacific Railroad: Omaha Belt Railway: MP: 1883 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway
Founded in 1994, the railroad's purpose was to haul grain from elevators in Merriman and other locations farther west, via trackage rights to its connection with the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern, now Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad at Dakota Junction and a further 20 miles (32 km) by trackage rights to a connection with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe at Crawford, Nebraska.
That same year it began advertising "millions of acres of cheap land" as an incentive to prospective settlers to Iowa and Nebraska. [4] Burlington and Missouri River Railroad roundhouse and shop in 1903 map in Alliance, Nebraska. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1872.
Decades after the Underground Railroad sneaked through Stark County, visitors to historic site can see how Alliance played a key role. Alliance's Haines House celebrates more than just the ...
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Alliance is located at the western edge of Nebraska's Sand Hills. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.73 square miles (12.25 km 2 ), of which 4.72 square miles (12.22 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
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