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Comments:	The new Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center will allow you to see the massive Union Pacific Railroad’s Bailey Yard which is the largest railroad classification yard in the world! This massive space covers 2,850 acres, reaching a total length of eight miles.<br> Just imagine how you would handle 10,000 railroad cars every 24 hours. That is the job that is done by the Bailey Yard. 3,000 of these cars are sorted daily in the yard’s eastward and westwards yards, nicknamed "hump" yards. How do they possibly do that?? Well, using a mound cresting 35 feet for eastbound trains and 20/1 feet for those heading west, these two hump yards allow four cars a minute to roll gently into any of the 114 "bowl" tracks where they become part of trains headed to all the destinations.<p> Designs as of April 2010 <br> 1) Diesel Engine, <br> 2) Their Mascot "Spike",<br> 3) Their new Logo<br> 4) The Union Pacific Shield <p> Admission is not required to access the machine. Right inside door to the left. Golden Spike Tower collector book also available. <p> 6/2020: The Spike design is changed to L'il Spike. The other designs remain the same. <p> 7/20/2020 machine is to the right when you walk in and working fine. DWT
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Golden Spike Tower and Visitor's Center

Machine Locations > Nebraska

1249 N. Homestead Rd
North Platte, NE , 69101

Phone: 308-532-9920

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The new Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center will allow you to see the massive Union Pacific Railroad’s Bailey Yard which is the largest railroad classification yard in the world! This massive space covers 2,850 acres, reaching a total length of eight miles.
Just imagine how you would handle 10,000 railroad cars every 24 hours. That is the job that is done by the Bailey Yard. 3,000 of these cars are sorted daily in the yard’s eastward and westwards yards, nicknamed "hump" yards. How do they possibly do that?? Well, using a mound cresting 35 feet for eastbound trains and 20/1 feet for those heading west, these two hump yards allow four cars a minute to roll gently into any of the 114 "bowl" tracks where they become part of trains headed to all the destinations.

Designs as of April 2010
1) Diesel Engine,
2) Their Mascot "Spike",
3) Their new Logo
4) The Union Pacific Shield

Admission is not required to access the machine. Right inside door to the left. Golden Spike Tower collector book also available.

6/2020: The Spike design is changed to L'il Spike. The other designs remain the same.

7/20/2020 machine is to the right when you walk in and working fine. DWT

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Retired from Machine 2