Rail car terminal facility staging process
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United States of America Patent
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Mar 9, 2021
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Dec 7, 2017
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Jun 1, 2016
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Jun 1, 2016
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Abstract
In a method or apparatus for transporting bulk goods by rail cars on a rail network to a rail car handling terminal where the handling terminal includes a loading and/or unloading system with a metering device for measuring an amount of the bulk goods loaded or unloaded. At the terminal there is a center control data hub connecting to a plurality of portable hand held field computers and a communication system for communication with the rail network to obtain a Car Location Message (CLM), a way bill and mechanical data for each of the rail cars. The center control hub generates data indicating a current stage of each of the railcars and a signal indicative that a rail car can be transferred from one stage to another stage to the portable computers to control transfer of the rail car from one stage to the next stage.
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- 2016 Application Filing Year
- B61L Class
- 288 Applications Filed
- 229 Patents Issued To-Date
- 79.52 % Issued To-Date
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- 2 Citation Count
- B61L Class
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