UNION PACIFIC
mous North Platte depot and USO Canteen stood during World War II. This story of the North Platte canteen has been told in this magazine in the May 2004 issue.
The old depot may be gone, but the UP has built a great new North Platte depot at the base of the Golden Spike Tower at Bailey Yard on the west side of town. Bailey Yard is the largest rail- road classification yard in the world. This museum and observation tower are always worth the visit. Just check the hours for the season when you are passing through. During the summer
the tower is open from 9 AM to 7 PM daily and from 1 PM to 7 PM on Sun- days. The hours are shortened October 1 through April 31.
On Saturday morning, June 30, the UP steam train departed North Platte in a lifting fog. Coming out of the mists at Hershey, Nebraska, the train seemed like a ghost out of the past. The second day of this return to Cheyenne took the train through some of my fa- vorite places like Lodgepole, Nebraska, often a service stop on eastbound runs. Another favorite spot of rail photogra- phers is Point of Rocks near Potter, Ne- braska where the tracks sweep around a long curve with rock outcroppings looming above the train. Heading for Cheyenne travelers feel they have en- tered the West, the leaving the ordered life of the east far behind.
No. 844, the E-9 diesel, and the short train pulled into Cheyenne in mid-af- ternoon on June 30, 2012, the eve of the 150th Anniversary of President Lin- coln’s signature on the Pacific Railroad Act. Cheyenne’s tag for their world fa- mous July rodeo, Cheyenne Frontier Days, is "The grand- daddy of ‘em all." The same title might apply to the rail- road that founded Cheyenne. The Union Pacific is indeed "The daddy of em all" for American railroads, and steam still runs across the Overland Route in the Twenty-first Century.
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