YARD HAULING: SWITCHING TO RUBBER

This article explains the advantages of Monsanto Company's using two Clark 280 rubber-tired dozers, equipped with special compressed air braking systems and rail car coupling devices, to move 150 rail cars daily to various locations around its huge phosphorus plant near Columbia, TN.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Institute of Industrial Engineers

  345 East 47th Street
  New York, NY  United States  10017
• Publication Date: 1977-1

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: American Institute of Industrial Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hoppers; Industrial engineering; Industrial trucks; Materials management; Siding; Switching; Tires; Traffic managers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Shippers
• Old TRIS Terms: Industrial tracks
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156903
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 4 1977 12:00AM