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North Platte was established in 1866 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. [6] It derives its name from the North Platte River. [7] [8]North Platte was the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway from December 1866 until the next section to Ogallala was opened the following year. [9]
North Platte, city, seat (1867) of Lincoln county, west-central Nebraska, U.S. It lies at the point where the North Platte and South Platte rivers join to form the Platte River. Founded in 1866 on the Union Pacific Railroad (of which it became a division headquarters), North Platte developed as a
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May 21, 2010 · Still, what kept the town alive was the railroad. Double-track arrived in 1910, three years after UP opened its Kansas City-Gibbon line, but what cemented North Platte’s status as the operational center of Union Pacific’s universe was the opening of a 5-mile-long, 42-track, $3.5 million hump yard there in 1948 (replacing a 20-track flat ...
North Platte was established in 1866 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. [6] It derives its name from the North Platte River. [7] [8] North Platte was the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway from December 1866 until the next section to Ogallala was opened the following year. [9]
Platte River, Nebraska. Platte River, river of Nebraska, U.S., formed at the city of North Platte by the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers. The Platte proper is 310 miles (500 km) long, but measured from its source stream, Grizzly Creek in Colorado (via the North Platte River), the system has a length of 990 miles (1,590 km).
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Completed in 1948, it required 51 additional miles of trackage and cost $3.5 million. Constantly updated and expanded, North Platte’s “Bailey Yard” is now the largest such facility in the world; covering 2,850 acres, reaching a total length of eight miles and containing more than 315 miles of track. As many as 15,000 cars can be sorted ...
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The North Platte Canteen was one of the largest volunteer efforts of World War II. It began on December 17, 1941 when the families and friends of the local Nebraska National Guard unit (Company D) came to the North Platte Depot to give them their Christmas presents. As the train pulled into the depot, the families began to crowd up to the train ...
