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This solution greatly reduces the cost to ship, mobilize and re-mobile the unit from site to site. Hoses are stored and a truck can then tow the unit to another site. When it’s time to move the unit to another site, the platform is rotated around, lowered down and secured into position. We operate 18 short line railroads in 11 states with certified. The trailer also has hose storage racks and a tool box for fittings etc… needed to connect the hoses to the rail car/trucks for loading/unloading, all designed for over the road transport. Corman has railroad freight experience dating back to 1987. The platform, with built on safety cage, rotates around from the stored position for transport, to the rail car and locks into positon for use. The platform is designed to raise up and down for transport via use of a hydraulic system. Some companies use a hot shot service to tow the unit to the site which can reduce transport cost and there is no need to load the unit on a flatbed or cost to unload the unit once at site.

With this design, the trailer can be moved by a pickup truck from the factory to the site if one wished to. If you need your bulk product moved by Barge, Rail or Truck, CD Terminal has the equipment, facilities and experience to load, unload, store and transport it. Wayne and Eastern Railroad), D&D is uniquely positioned to receive virtually any commodity in a safe and efficient manner. Instead of using a fixed platform that has to be removed, use a platform that rotates and collapses down, mounted to a DOT approved trailer for over the road transport (see Fig. Is there a way to reduce this cost – yes. On the low side, taking the initial delivery, setting it up and then relocating it just one time puts us at $18,000.00. For your project to be successful, you need a quality equipment, maintained to be reliable and operated by an experienced railroad professional.

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That same $6,000.00 to $8,000.00 has to now be spent twice – once to take the unit apart and load on a flat bed and again to unload and re-assemble the unit at the new site. Portable transloading equipment is available to transfer liquid asphalts and residual oils anywhere in North America. More cost now come if/when you are ready to move the unit to another location. Cost to do the job vary around the country, but discussions with multiple clients puts the range from $6,000.00 to $8,000.00.

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On arrival additional money must be spent to now assemble the unit at site, requiring a fork lift and or boom truck to unload the unit and lift the equipment onto the mobile trailer, man lift, associated tools, sometimes generator power, 2-3 man crew. Because the platform is fixed to a trailer and the height exceeds the 13’-6” DOT height restriction for shipping down the road, the transload unit, and its platform must be shipped on a flatbed truck to the job site. It might be more reliable and convenient to have inventory near a customer base at the transload site for local delivery as needed.Transload Unit with Fixed Rail Car Access Platform, Stairįrom the day the transload unit leaves the factory, the cost to move the unit begins. Paper, food products and other warehoused goodsĬost is dependent on commodity and the market.Plastics, sand, soda ash and other industrial minerals.The transload unit will also have equipment such as pumps, compressors.

Renewable diesel, ethanol, fuels, diesel exhaust fluid, NGLs, chemicals This is a common setup used to load or offload between rail cars and trucks.

These facilities are essentially large rail yards with truck lanes.

Lumber and panel products, gypsum wallboard In transloading, products require special loading/unloading equipment and techniques.

Distribution network: Reach a market where you don’t have your own warehouse or terminalĪnything from bulk materials and liquids to palletized and break-bulk products. What are your transloading plans Whether youre trying to move large equipment such as wind turbines and naval components or dry goods such as fertilizer.

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Truckload quantities: When customers don’t require a full railcar quantity, but you can consolidate several customers to take advantage of railcar quantities.Railroad optionality: Access to another railroad’s route network or rail equipment.More shipping capacity: A shipper’s rail spur has insufficient loading/unloading capacity.Other scenarios where a transload can be useful include: The most common use is when a shipper or receiver has no rail spur on site or lacks proper facilities/equipment to handle freight to/from a railcar.

Rail transloader equipment