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Golden Spike Tower and Bailey Yard

North Platte, NE

The tower overlooks Union Pacific’s enormous Bailey Yard, where freight cars are sorted across a vast web of tracks. Elevated observation decks reveal the scale of railroad operations that cannot be appreciated from ground level, making this one of the state’s strongest industrial OddWay stops.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: goldenspiketower.com

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