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New Pedestrian Bridge in Hershey

The Village of Hershey has made it nearby North Platte. The Bailey Yard is
safer to cross five sets of tracks by the largest railroad classification yard in
installing a 211-foot-long pedestrian the world.
walkway spanning the tracks. The TheThe walkway is built on 20-foot-tall

walkway opened for pedestrian use support bases and extends 30 feet tall in
earlier this summer. the air over the tracks. Steward said a
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“TheThe walkway has been part of the person can see about ten miles from the
discussion surrounding the top of the walk way. As he works at sites

installation of a viaduct for 25 years. across the town of 665 residents,
We have a train go by every seven Steward crosses the walkway himself at
minutes and with the bank,
least four times a day – which is least four times a day – which is
post office, grocery store and a quarter mile each way. The
school on one side and your State of Nebraska built the

home on the other, you may haveome on the other, you may have
h
$3 million walkway but it’s
to cross those tracks more than once a the Village of Hershey that soon will be
day,” said Ronnie Steward, Hershey responsible for its maintenance which

Maintenance Superintendent. will mean Steward will be moving snow
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Thehe ten-foot-wide concrete walkway, and melting the ice off it in the winter.
considered the longest in Nebraska, TheThe trains also don’t have to blow their
allows residents to walk, ride bikes whistles any more as they go through

and lawnmowers and pull wagons town.
across the tracks without waiting for “People can sleep with their windows
the train to pass. At times there are open now,” Steward said.
four trains coming to or from the See a video of the placing of the new

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Unionnion Pacific Bailey Yard in walkway on the Hershey Facebook page.