Freight handling method
AssigneeNaylor, Neal & Uilkema
InventorJames W. Freeman
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Abstract
Freight is shipped from a production center to a railhead by loading the freight at the production center onto railroad boxcars which are water-borne, i.e. carried by railroad barges or railroad ferries. The track-carrying vessel which carries the boxcars is provided with a loading platform onto which forklift trucks carrying palletized freight can drive from a dockside warehouse facility and from which the forklift trucks can move via removable runways into boxcars arranged in multiple rows.
Claims4
A freight handling method comprising loading freight cars onto a railroad car carrier vessel at a railhead transfer facility, moving said vessel to a dock having a freight storage facility associated therewith, loading said cars with freight from said freight storage facility, moving said vessel with its loaded freight cars to a railhead transfer facility, and moving said cars off of said vessel over said transfer facility for subsequent train makeup and destination shipping.
A freight handling method comprising positioning freight cars on a railroad car carrier vessel, positioning said vessel at a predetermined position, loading said cars with freight while maintaining said vessel at said predetermined position, moving said vessel with its loaded cars to a railhead transfer facility, and moving said cars off of said vessel over said facility for subsequent train makeup and destination shipping.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.