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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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   The bottom gates on the pneumatic hoppers connect to a hose attached to industrial facilities' storage tanks. Air is injected to fluidize the railcar contents for unloading. [5] The hopper car was developed in parallel with the development of automated handling of such commodities, including automated loading and unloading facilities.

4. Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad - Wikipedia

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   Three diesel-powered conveyors were built to lift pulpwood logs from Eagle Lake to a height of 25 feet (7.6 m) over a distance of 225 feet (69 m). Each conveyor could fill a railroad car in 18 minutes. [4] Lacroix completed the railroad to a pulpwood-unloading trestle at the north end of Umbazooksus Lake. [5]

5. Transloading - Wikipedia

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   Thus, intermodal facilities have specialized cranes for handling the containers, and coal piers have car dumpers, loaders, conveyors, and other equipment for unloading and loading railroad cars and ships quickly and with a minimum of personnel. Transloading facilities may also make use of a Bulk Transloading System to provide visibility of a ...

6. Helix Dumper - Wikipedia

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   A Helix Dumper is a rail transport and unloading solution, designed for continuous rolling discharge of bulk commodities. Originally developed for the iron ore industry, the Helix Dumper system can handle many types of fine-grained and potentially sticky commodities.

7. 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.