Headquarters: (3D Satellite)
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| Street View, Aug 2022 |
I'm saving a 3D view of the headquarters while there is not a building on the south side.
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| 3D Satellite |
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| Street View, Aug 2011 |
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| Untold History of Southeast Nebraska added Harriman Dispatching Center, Omaha, NE - "The Harriman Dispatching Center is Union Pacific’s main control center, operating most of the fleet and track of the nation’s largest railroad company, Union Pacific. Called the “Bunker” by some, this building, two football fields long, is where the movement of hundreds of trains on 32,000 miles of track is controlled and monitored. It was built in a former freight depot building in 1989, and employs over 750 people, around 60 of whom are dispatchers who work in the “bunker” itself, like slower-motion air traffic controllers watching a series of 172 screens that show every switch and signal track on UP’s lines. The corporate headquarters for Union Pacific is located nearby in downtown Omaha." - Center for Land Use Interpretation - Creative Commons Gene Adams: It is actually a bunker. The dispatch center is in a concrete, tornado proof bunker inside the building. Our tour person side it could withstand a direct hit of a tornado plus it has backup systems to run the center for days. Douglas Potthoff: Gene Adams They receive electrical from 2 utilities in 2 states, plus their own backup. |
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| clui, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) The text on this webpage differs slightly from their Facebook post above: "the movement of over 850 trains and nearly 23,000 miles of track." |
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| GatewayNMRA [This has a date of 2000 and an update saying that it has been remodelled since the photo was taken. I wonderedif it was now different when I saw CRT monitors.] |
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| America's Power Flickr The Harriman Dispatching Center looks modern on the inside, but it's actually an old freight house built in 1891. [Their photos of the center starts here. The highest mileage figure I saw in the comments was 36,000. And that comment called the UP the largest railroad in the world.] |
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| Union Pacific Railroad posted Our Harriman Dispatching Center (HDC) in Omaha, Nebraska, is one of the most technologically advanced dispatching facilities in the U.S. Employees at the HDC function as rail traffic control, operating 24/7 to keep trains on the move. Systemwide, 469 UP train dispatchers work eight-hour shifts to keep 81 desks running. The center lives inside a historic brick building constructed in 1891 as a freight house. A reinforced concrete bunker surrounds the dispatchers and hundreds of large and small computer screens. The building was renovated in 2007 to add a sound-absorbing ceiling, state-of-the-art air handling equipment featuring antibacterial ultraviolet lights and heat-reclamation equipment, so no supplemental heating is required. Fibre-optics, telephone lines and radio are used to align switches and set signals. Every single train on our 32,000-mile system can be tracked and dispatched from this building. Two massive generators and two power companies keep the building up and running through power outages, ensuring Union Pacific never stops delivering the goods Americans use every day. up_union, different exposure |
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| up_inside "35,252 track miles made up of main track, sidings and industrial leads. It’s not just the distance you would travel to circle the Earth almost twice, it’s also the number of main line miles cut over during Union Pacific’s Computer-Aided Dispatching system (CADX) efforts – now complete." CADX Cutover by the Numbers 35,252 track miles Nearly 70,000 assets made up of switches, signals, milepost markers and signs 1,023 subdivisions and industrial leads 73 train dispatcher desks across nine locations 472 days, first desk to last desk cutover |
Back when the freight house was a freight house.
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| 1956 Omaha North and South Quads @ 24,000 |
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