THE ADVENTURES OF PLATY AND THE GANG Back to New York

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We had a short first day and visited the Golden Spike Tower that afternoon.
The Golden Spike Tower rises 8 stories above Union Pacific's 2,850-acre Bailey Yard the world's largest train yard. 

The massive yard covers 2,850 acres, and includes one of UP's largest repair facilities, with space enough to house 3 football fields.

• Bailey Yard handles 150 trains daily bound for cities as distant as the East, West, and Gulf Coasts.
• Every 24 hours, Bailey Yard handles 15,000 railroad cars.
• 70% of train traffic through Bailey Yard is composed of unit trains (coal, auto, refrigerated, grain, etc.). These trains pass directly through the yard without being sorted.
• Classification bowls for eastbound and westbound traffic contain 114 tracks and thousands of cars.
• Over 14 million gallons of diesel fuel is used monthly.
• The car repair facility repairs 50 cars daily, and replaces 10,000 pairs of wheels yearly.

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