Bailey Yard

Wow!!! What a layout. (LOL)

rattler21,

That's some territory, at one local!!!!
Ralph

Just took a quick look via google maps-- the entire complex is 32,000 ft long, and 6,000 ft wide at the widest point. there are 5 sub complexes within the confines. i don't know if the whole complex is called Bailey Yard, or if that's just the name of one of the sub complexes.

I was just there 2 weeks ago for Rail Fest.  Quite the place!

Got to take the tour and ride the bus through the yard.

The bus is on what they call the "sheep jump", a flyover connecting the east and west humps. The tracks below are the through mains and where unit trains stop for crew changes and refueling.

The  shop is the size of 5 football fields.

All of the heritage units were gathered for Rail Fest.

This was taken from the Golden Spike Tower, looking out at the east hump.

Rail Fest is over and the SP and Mopac units are ready to be assigned to new trains.



If you can make it to North Platte, it is very much worth seeing. Rail Fest gives you even better access.

Thanks Chris. They were all nice and shiny. Pride of the fleet and all.

Looks like I forgot the C&NW.

The E9 and the Centennial were also there.

Great pictures. Thanks

Uncle Pete can really put on a show when they want to!

Kent in SD

Ahhh love the E unit.

Give em' a few years and they'll put on a Big one....

No steam?

Think about it Dominic. The UP Steam Crew are pretty much all out in Pomona, California preparing #4014 for movement to Cheyenne! Thus no 844 in North Platte, Nebraska.

Actually, earlier that day, I came within a few hundred feet of 844 and 3985, but never actually saw them.

Day 18 of a 20 day road trip was a Sunday, which started out in Denver at 5AM MDT. By 7:00 we were in Cheyenne. At noon CDT we were in North Platte.

(sorry these pics are slightly off topic)







It may be a little hard to tell from the picture, but somebody made a fake shield to replace the real cast one that's missing from 4004.

Hello, I was thinking about the old Bailey yard at the Mt Claire shops as referred by the 1905 Baltimore maps.

Forgive me if I am off topic here. I see the photos here and think they are very well done.

In December, 1973 The Kroger Co. had a load of California oranges (a corporate tradition is to have oranges as a loss leader the week before Christmas) rolling to Grand Rapids.

At Bailey Yard, the third and fourth numbers of a PFE reefer were transposed and someone's car of grapes was delivered to the Kroger distribution center in Grand Rapids.  Our car of oranges was found in PRR's Enola Yard at Harrisburg.  It was too

late to get the car on a west bound train and make distribution at Grand Rapids.

A man fairly high up in Omaha told me to arrange to have the oranges transferred to trucks, taken to Grand Rapids and send the bill to his attention.

That is one way a good company solved a problem.

John

Indeed John.




And my namesake in Denver


I've now seen 6 of 8. Just missing L.A. and Scranton. Now I don't have to go all the way to L.A. I just have to wait, and it will probably come to me.