21ST CENTURY RAILROAD ENGINEERING
Improvements & Opportunity
- Digitization of asset data and near/real-time asset condition data.
- Planned maintenance/renewal .activities are digitized and budgeted.
- Railroads CapEx maintenance budgets are robust and adding capacity.
- Engineering groups are challenged to:
- Improve productivity.
- Improve Safety.
- Keep the network fluid during maintenance activities.
- Crane technology is dated:
- Locomotive crane technology 40-50 years old-limited capacity-limits productivity
- Many bridges designed based on locomotive crane constraints.
- Larger projects require off-track cranes, spending on permits, building ingress roads, and longer construction time.
- Switch and Crossing Diamond renewal utilizes 4-8 backhoes all required to work in unison and safely.
- Access to project work areas is limited due to the removal of house and other spur tracks requiring longer travel times for gangs to work sites, reducing productivity.
- Mainline Switch maintenance costs for customer access when 99% of switch wear is from mainline trains verses 1% of actual customer switching is an improvement opportunity for cost management and improved operating safety.
RC2 and Rc3
Rcrane Makes Railroads Safer
- 10-year ZERO injuries project performance
- Utilizing customer input, designed our safety cage work area
- We train our customer's managers and workforce for a safe project performance
- We develop simulation and operating process for each project
- We plan work windows with office/ field engineering staff, operating managers
Rcrane Safety Features
Inner walkways
Safety tie-off lines
Overhead life-lines
Rflats-life lines
Fans and heaters
Retractable awning over crane
High intensity LED lights
for 24 x 7 operations
Balance and Support Advantage
Rcrane lifts load with two hoists making it easy to rig, lift, level and position loads. Rcrane has 8 times as many points of ground support as other conventional methods. (4 each corner)
Rcrane Tools On-Board
Zero Gravity Hand Tool Supports
Reels for Hydraulic, Electric, and Pneumatic Tool lines
Welder and cutting torch on-board crane
Parts bins at point of use
Laser levels for rapid alignment and gauging of rails
40-foot container with support tools and spare parts
Mini kitchen with refrigerator-freezer for food & beverages
Customer Connection Switch
Rswitch Customer Connection Switch
Switch to Rswitch-Keep your Customer
Replace mainline customer switches
Add new customer connections
Trains get a Smoother Ride
No Frogs-No points
The New Way To Handle a Customer Connection Switch
The majority of class 1 RR’s each replace 400+ switches per year.
This is expensive to install with a continuous cost to maintain,
low use for the customer and switch wear by trains leads to derailment risk.
Replace your mainline customer switches with Rswitch and
add new customer connections!
Rswitch Outstanding Features
- Modular design, configure for right or left movement.
- One-person switch operation, electro-hydraulic throw assist with continuous solar charging.
- Match any elevation differential between mainline and spur track.
- Portable-move in three flatbed loads or gondolas.
- 7 Rswitch panels.
- 8 Rswitch slide panels.
- Safety First.
- Mainline stays intact-reduces derailment risk.
- Rswitch safety locks.
- Rswitch dual locks.
- Rswitch clamps secure switch in position for operations.
- Shunts track circuit in signal.
- Not connected to mainline track, no signals/PTC required.
- All locomotives and railcars move 5 MPH over Rswitch territory.
MOFWAY TEMPORARY PROJECT SWITCH FOR SPUR CONNECTIOn
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- Locate Rswitch close to worksite.
- Reduced travel time to work site-increases daily productivity.
- Rswitch is Stealth to mainline.
- No cut rails, no long switch ties, no tamping.
- No mainline slow orders.
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Rswitch Temporary MofWay
Temporary Mainline Railroad Switch
Temporary Mainline Railroad Switch
Components trucked/rail to work site and are applied adjacent to mainline. 8 hours, 4 persons to install and 4 hours to remove.
No mainline cuts, tamping, or connection required.
Workday 2 minutes to open and 1 minute to close.
12-minute delay over 4-day work week.
No slow order.
Temporary Mainline Railroad Switch
Temporary Mainline Railroad Switch
Temporary Mainline Railroad Switch
Set-up 3 days, requires cutting switch into mainline, insert long ties under mainline, work windows, & tamping.
Removal 3 days, requires work windows, removing long ties under mainline, replacing mainline track, & tamping.
Workday 1 minute open & 1 minute close.
8 minutes delay over 4-day work week.
Slow order during project
Temporary MofWay Portable Switch
Temporary Mainline Railroad Switch
Temporary MofWay Portable Switch
Components trucked/rail to work site and are applied on top of existing mainline each workday and removed after work complete. No track work or tamping required to mainline.
Workday 30 minutes to open and 15 minutes to close.
3-hour delay over 4- day work week.
No slow order.
Overhead and lower Gantry Grapples
Lower Gantry Grapple
The Rcrane Lower Gantry Grapple is used to lift and change out individual bridge ties.
Overhead Gantry-Wireless-Tie Grapple
The Rcrane Overhead Gantry Grapple is used to move materials off of Rflats into position for installation at project sites. It is also used for the removal of old material.
Overhead and Lower Gantry Grapple Work Together!
The Rcrane Lower Gantry Grapple in the foreground with ties staged to change out on a project. The Overhead Gantry Grapple is in the background with a bundle of ties.
Rcrane LAG Bar
The Power and Precision of Two 40 Ton Hoists with LAG Bar which Lifts, Aligns, and Gauges both rails to easily lift both high enough to exchange PLATED-TIES with Lower Gantry Grapple (LGG).
More Prep less track occupancy downtime.
.....Grapples Plus Lag Bar
* Fulltime overhead fall protection. *Hoists lift and lower rails to eliminate the use of track jacks. *Replace up to 25 pre-plated bridge ties per hour. *Up to 100 per day. *No cutting rails. *Fully securing ties to bridge with bolts and installing timber guards. Lower Gantry Grapple removes old ties and inserts new ones.