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2. Rotary car dumper - Wikipedia

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   Rotary Railcar Dumper at 45-Degree Rotation. A rotary car dumper or wagon tippler (UK) is a mechanism used for unloading certain railroad cars such as hopper cars, gondolas or mine cars (tipplers, UK). It holds the rail car to a section of track and then rotates the track and car together to dump out the contents.

3. Hopper car - Wikipedia

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   As wheel loads increase, track maintenance expenses increase and the ability of a given rail weight, ballast depth, and tie configuration to handle prolonged rail traffic decreases. Moreover, the ability of a given bridge to handle prolonged rail traffic also decreases as wheel loads increase. [10] The axle load is twice the wheel load.

4. Heyl & Patterson Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Railcar Dumper, Circa 1900. Heyl & Patterson was founded by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson [1] in Downtown Pittsburgh, initially as a sales agency for elevator and conveyor chains and elevator buckets. This developed into supplying complete elevators and conveyors.

5. Vostochny Port (company) - Wikipedia

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   Coal unloading is carried out at the railcar discharge station, equipped with 2 tandem railcar dumpers, railcar thawing equipment with capacity of 80 gondola cars, a windshield system with infrared heating, a drilling / ripping complex, conveyor equipment, and frozen coal crushing systems.

6. Car spotting (positioning) - Wikipedia

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   Car spotting is precise positioning of a railroad car for loading/unloading. When a locomotive pulls a train of freight cars to a loading/unloading station, it approximately positions them with respect to freight handling equipment, since locomotives are not well-suited for precise positioning.

7. Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad - Wikipedia

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   The inland rail of the 600-foot (180 m) long pulpwood-unloading pier was six inches (15 cm) higher than the lakeside rail to expedite unloading. The floor of each pulpwood car sloped 12 inches (30 cm) to the unloading side; and the slatted side of the car was hinged at the top to swing open when latches were released so the pulpwood would slide ...