The SmartPower RTGs will be installed to improve capacity at two NS intermodal terminals: Landers (Chicago) and Rossville (Memphis). Two cranes will be installed at each terminal. Each will have a ...

The crane comes just like an intermodal dry container, picks up that frame, and sets it in the well car on the train.” Schneider is currently operating about 400 of these containers, up from the ...

UP will purchase and test four hybrid cranes for use in its intermodal yards starting in 2024, the Class I railroad reported on the “Inside Track” section of its website. The move is part of the ...

The Georgia Ports Authority has ordered eight rail-mounted gantry cranes from Konecranes as part of a recently started construction project to expand the Port of Savannah’s on-dock intermodal yard.

Meanwhile, the northwest Ohio intermodal terminal will have seven zero-emission, wide-span electric cranes, with each crane having a 46-ton capacity that will allow efficient container movement ...

The new 140 ton portal crane, a rubber-tyred gantry crane (RTG), is 29 m wide and straddles three track widths and the corresponding rail terminal loading lanes. Its lifting height below the ...

The new rubber-tyred gantry crane (RTG) for the intermodal terminal at the Ostuferhafen has arrived in Kiel. Where the rail/ship handling was done by Reach Stackers, the gantry crane will take ...

The company has cranes that use a Global Positioning System (GPS) steering system. These cranes, which work in intermodal rail yards, have some of their movement directed by satellites.

Circus-style drive-on, drive-off ramps were done away with in the 1980s. Trailers now are loaded and unloaded by huge intermodal cranes that are fast but capable of doing serious damage.

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