Rail car transporting and shipping system

Details Rail car transporting and shipping system Rail car transporting and shipping system

1977-12-12

1979-05-15

Sheridan, Robert G.

Railways

Terminals and stations

Freight

104 48, 104122, B61B 100

Patent

active

041541707

ABSTRACT:
A rail car transporting and shipping system including a shipping floor having an edge, a plurality of elongated pits within the shipping floor and aligned in side-by-side relation and further having open ends at said edge, first railroad rails in each of the pits extending to the edge and adapted to receive a rail car, and a traveling crane movable in a path adjacent the edge and the pit ends. An elongated carriage is mounted on the traveling crane for vertical movement with respect thereto and second railroad rails are disposed on the carriage alignable with the first rails in each of the pits when the carriage is in a lowered position. A hoist is provided for raising and lowering the carriage on the traveling crane and a coupler structure is mounted on the carriage for movement in a direction parallel to the second rails. A drive moves the coupler structure bidirectionally on the carriage whereby a car coupled to the coupler structure may be drawn onto or pushed off of the carriage and a pair of railroad spur lines are spaced from the shipping floor and have ends terminating at a boundary of the traveling crane path, the second rails on the carriage being alignable with the spur lines when the traveling crane is aligned with the corresponding spur line.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1716588 (1929-06-01), Kirchner
patent: 3556011 (1971-01-01), Saxonmeyer

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