Here is a way they do it nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1E9IEs3hLY So why don't they do more of this? I'm guessing it's just a slow labor intensive bottleneck. Maybe you get 10-20 trailers an hour or something? and you need a big forklift (or crane) and someone to run it and then probably once it's unloaded you need to bring in another truck to haul it out of the way temporarily and then unhook it again and park it again. And then you need to move the forklift to the next car, or move the train forward.
On Monday, November 18, 2024 at 11:19:25 AM PST, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: Notes below Peri << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> ------ Original Message ------ From: "Lawrence Winiarski" <lawrence_winiar...@yahoo.com> To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Cc: "Peri Hartman" <pe...@kotatko.com> Sent: 18-Nov-24 02:01:15 Subject: Re: [EVDL] Hydrogen trains > > >First make a trailer capable of doing something like this >autonomously..especially with camera's pointing down. > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXb32DCeOj0 Peri: Actually, plain old carwash technology is sufficient. Use lateral rollers and a funnel shaped guide to align the train wheels. > > >Then you want another way of jockeying the trailer round to the >parking lot. Again I'd think just some drop down steerable rubber >wheels that drop down in the front of the trailer and can steer it >round >at very low speeds to get to a very very nearby parking lot. Peri: That's a good idea. Then you don't get congestion on the side track - everything is assembled or disassembled quickly. Or you could simply have a bunch of spur tracks, like what used to go to wharfs on the waterfront. That's a lot of infrastructure, but it might be simpler than equipping every trailer with steerable wheels. > > > >Make it so a standard regular tractor trailer could just hitch up and >go...electric or not electric. Once it's parked and the undercarriage >lifted, it's just a standard trailer > Peri: You could still have a locomotive, but then the trailers would have to have some sort of coupling mechanism and probably be stronger. I think the possibilities, here, are fantastic. Any pundits ? How could something like this actually happen ? > > > >On Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 12:41:02 PM PST, Peri Hartman via EV ><ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > >That's pretty much like what I suggest some time (years ?) ago. > >Design trucks and trailers with hydraulic drop-down rail "trucks" >(wheel >sets). Or just the trailers, perhaps. > > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20241119/03406762/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
