Alliances
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Modjeski and Masters
Modjeski and Masters has provided a wide range of bridge engineering services to the railroad industry since the firm's inception. Modjeski and Masters' engineering expertise will be used in constructing the railcar turntable itself.
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Ansaldo Signal
Ansaldo Signal is a subsidiary of Union Switch and Signal. They will be providing the computerized signalling and alignment technology that makes the freight turntable safe to operate. To get the highest level of safety and throughput out of the turntable, it needs to have most of it's scheduling and operation computerized. This is the area where Ansaldo Signal is recognized as the industry leader.
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National Railway Equipment
National Railway Equipment Company's new N-ViroMotive™ locomotives provide dramatic fuel savings and lower maintenance costs. These state of the art locomotives operate cleaner and have a longer service life than any road-switcher available today. They will be used for short line runs off the turntable.
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Star Track
The turntables will sit on a series of short heavy railroad cars wheels and ride on standard guage railroad tracks made of Startrack II railroad crossing modules. These precast sections will be custom designed for curved track and to be able to support the extreme loads of the turntable structure and freight trains that will rest on them.
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Trackmobile
The Railcar Sequencing Turntable will be operating Trackmobile Mobile Railcar Movers. These units will be performing the switching duties on the turntable and throughout the facility. The Trackmobile is not confined to the rail as conventional locomotives. The operator simply moves a rocker switch in the cab and converts from rail to road or road to rail in seconds. For this particular application, the new "Titan Trackmobiles" will be responsible for pushing and pulling the railcars.
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U. S. Development Group
U. S. Development Corporation has a great deal of experience finding properties for rail companies. R.S.T will be partnering with U.S. Development Corporation to find optimal sites for their turntables.
There is no agency, partnership, joint venture or any other relationship in which the parties listed above are responsible for the liabilities or obligations of RST.