A railroad crane owned by the German firm Magdeburger Hafen GmbH.
A railroad crane is a piece of rail transportmaintenance of way equipment. It generally resembles a conventional fixed-location crane except that the platform the crane sits on is a heavy duty reinforced flat car. Directly underneath the center of gravity for the crane is a pivot point that allows the crane to swivel around 360°; in this way the crane can locate its boom over the worksite no matter its location along the track. The trucks on the car under the crane will often include traction motors so that the crane is able to move itself along the railroad. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 69 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Crane (railroad) ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 69 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Crane (railroad) ... Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam in many countries in the decades after World War II. Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Stub | Maintenance of way equipment | Rail transport ... KCS 8985, a flatcar seen in this May 29, 2004 photo, is fitted with hitches for hauling trailers. ... In physics, the center of gravity (CoG) of an object is the average location of its weight. ... US_style railroad truck. ... Traction motor typically refers to those motors that are used to power the driving wheels of a railroad locomotive, electrical multi-unit train (such as a subway or light rail vehicle train), or a tram. ...
Normally a separate boom car, basically another heavy duty flat car, is coupled to the crane's car as an idler car where the boom can be strapped down for transportation.
It generally resembles a conventional fixed-location crane except that the platform the crane sits on is a heavy duty reinforced flat car.
Directly underneath the center of gravity for the crane is a pivot point that allows the crane to swivel around 360°; in this way the crane can locate its boom over the worksite no matter its location along the track.
The trucks on the car under the crane will often include traction motors so that the crane is able to move itself along the railroad.
A main bed frame for a truck mounted railroadcrane is disclosed as having an inner supporting frame section separating a paid of outer supporting frame sections, all of which underlie and support the upper main bearing plate upon which a swiveling crane is mounted.
When the truck mounted railroadcrane 10 reaches the desired location, such as a train derailment, train rail construction, train rail maintenance operation, or the like, the crane boom superstructure 28 may then be put into operation to raise, lower and swing train cars and the like, as may be desired.
The crane boom superstructure 28 includes a boom 34 that is hingedly mounted to the crane cab 14 for raising and lowering of the boom 34 as well as for swiveling or rotational movement of the crane cab 14 and associated boom 34 relative to the crane bed frame 24.
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