Railcar_mover

Railcar mover

Railcar mover

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A railcar mover is a road–rail vehicle (capable of travelling on both roads and rail tracks) fitted with couplers for moving small numbers of railroad cars around in a rail siding or small yard. [1] Vollert has developed an unmanned road-rail remote controlled vehicle VLEX for shunting up to 300 t.[2]

Unimog 405/UGN road–rail vehicle used as a rail car mover
A Volvo L70F loader fitted with Aries Hyrail road–rail vehicle conversion and train braking system

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  1. [1]
    Daigneault, Marc; Prigge, Frederick; Tellier, Bruno (March 2016). "From Paper to Product: Engineering a 27,000 kg Fully Electric Mobile Railcar Mover in 6 Months". World Electric Vehicle Journal. 8 (1): 69–77. doi:10.3390/wevj8010069. ISSN 2032-6653.
  2. [2]
    "Vollert develops VLEX road-rail shunting robot". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
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