For those who couldn't make it out today, our first LRV was unloaded off of the flatbed rail car!
At about 9:30am, the team finished up their safety briefing, and headed out to the yard. The ramp was rolled up to it via the TrackMobile, and lashed in place. The TrackMobile, using a flatcar as a spacer, then coupled to the LRV using a custom-made Scharfenberg adapter. After it was slowly extracted from the flatbed, it was towed a small distance away. After a lot of shuffling and re-organizing (the two flatbed rail cars were taken back to the siding just North of Northfield, presumably for GEXR to pick up at their leisure), and lunch
, the team came back out and used the TrackMobile to take the LRV and ramp (all in one shot) back into the yard/OMSF.
They had an absolutely beautiful day for it. Was wonderful meeting and chatting with the folks who stopped by.
Video for now, photos to come later. I'll try to limit it to a select few.
For fun, if you want to compare our process to that of others, here are a couple of other nice "extraction" videos:
At about 9:30am, the team finished up their safety briefing, and headed out to the yard. The ramp was rolled up to it via the TrackMobile, and lashed in place. The TrackMobile, using a flatcar as a spacer, then coupled to the LRV using a custom-made Scharfenberg adapter. After it was slowly extracted from the flatbed, it was towed a small distance away. After a lot of shuffling and re-organizing (the two flatbed rail cars were taken back to the siding just North of Northfield, presumably for GEXR to pick up at their leisure), and lunch
, the team came back out and used the TrackMobile to take the LRV and ramp (all in one shot) back into the yard/OMSF.They had an absolutely beautiful day for it. Was wonderful meeting and chatting with the folks who stopped by.
Video for now, photos to come later. I'll try to limit it to a select few.
For fun, if you want to compare our process to that of others, here are a couple of other nice "extraction" videos: