North Platte (UP Bailey Yard — World's Largest)
Major rail hub / inland gateway · North Platte, NE · Class I service: UP
World's largest rail classification yard — 2,850 acres, 315 miles of track, ~14,000 cars handled per day. Hump yard with 8 retarder tracks. Critical pivot for Powder River Basin coal trains heading east, multimodal lanes, and grain. Operated by Union Pacific.
Commodities through this hub
- Coal by rail — Open-top hopper or rotary-dump gondola, 110–121 tons/car
- Petroleum Coke by rail — Open-top hopper or rotary gondola, 100–115 tons/car
See it on the map
This hub is one of 66 plotted on the interactive North American Commodity Flow Map — origins, ports, gateways and border crossings with their serving railroads.
Moving freight through North Platte?
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