Heavy Metal by bmac62
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Yesterday I got to spend a couple of hours looking over the largest railyard in the world (according to the Guiness Book of World Records). This pano shows just a little bit of the Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska.
The yard is 8 miles long and up to 2 1/2 miles wide. It is where east meets west on the Union Pacific line, where 10,000 cars are handled each day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Comments (22)
RodS Online Now!
Wow - that looks just like the Lionel train set I had when I was a kid! (Yeah, right.... in my dreams, maybe..) What a spectacular pano, Bill! Man, that's a lot of heavy metal - an incredible image, my friend! Man, I'd love to fly the Phantom over this!
N8Dreams
Thats an impressive shot. Do you have more?
Faemike55
Wonderful and impressive capture Bill Spectacular view
durleybeachbum
A terrific photo of Train geek Heaven!
jayfar
A fantastic pano Bill and what a headache it must be for the controllers !
jendellas
Flipping heck, that is one rail yard. Super pic. Xx
giulband
WOW !!! absolutely beautiful image !!
kenmo
Awesome panorama....
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Union Pacific BNSF's great rival. I feel like a kid with a train set :) Nice pano Bill.
kgb224
Amazing photography Bill. God bless.
MrsRatbag
Wow! That a lot of trains...I love trains, and would go everywhere that way if I could. Fantastic capture of this train capitol!
SunriseGirl
Great photo of an interesting place. :)
T.Rex
Stunning, to say the least! A pano, yet it captures so little of the whole! Such a site requires good planning and cooperation. I've heard of this place but never seen it. Thanks for posting. I wonder where you stood to get this - the elevation suggests a tourist tower. A LOT of heavy locomotives in the photo. Heavy metal, indeed! Keep up the good work! :-)
Sea_Dog
Awesome shot, Bill. What an amazing place.
auntietk
Oooooohh! Lookie at all the trains! :P A terrific shot from your fun day out. (Thanks for not pushing me to go along!) :*
goodoleboy
Capital panorama! It takes a ZOOM to absorb the vastness and complexity of this amazing rail yard, Bill. That is one incredible maze of concrete, masonry and metal.
Richardphotos
full screen is the way to go. I have seen many rail yards but very difficult to get any pictures
beachzz
Oh wow, you must've been in train heaven!! So much to see and you got it all!!
debbielove
O.K. It's on the big side then lol Incredible and VAST shot you've made here Bill.. Great assembly! Rob
flavia49
great
anahata.c
"Oooooohh! Lookie at all the trains!" (tara) "Can I have a cookie???" Ok, terrific art makes kids of us...We have some wabagoon trainyards in the windy city, but I'd heard of this behemoth, and now I get to see some of it. Your panorama makes it into a vast pulsing rush of lines and verticals and horizontals. And all those hues that trainyards allow. One end has the sheds in it, and the other has the confluence of all those "train rivers". You got the right proportions too: very long, not very high, sweep, sweep. The long rows of traincars and high lamps I understand: But all those locomotives in the left half? I didn't know that many existed! When I've walked in some of our huge trainyards (away from downtown), it's like stepping into an alternate universe---it just goes on and on; and those old cars are like old barns, abandoned, rusted, and fierce, like old dinosaurs who refuse to die. But from an overview like this, they seem like they've gathered for a huge convention. A giddy shot, with real sweep, and very class-ily done. More fine and detailed work from your always-refined eye. (Ok, I might have shown you this before and there's really no comparison...but I think of it because of its sweep of repetition. This is Gursky's famous "99 Cents"---something like that. If your screen isn't big, zoom. Just for the sense of repeated length-wise repetition. The original is wall-sized, so it has a larger impact...It's here: http://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/gursky-99cent.jpg)
wysiwig
Well Nebraska is the place for it. Flat as a pancake. I've traveled on trains all over the world and loved it (Indian third class, not so much). What a fantastic panorama and interesting information. I had no idea this place existed.