09-28-2011, 11:32 AM
In the Los Angeles area there is a steel company on 26th street near Hobart yard that has rail service where the coil cars are pulled inside the building and an overhear crane transfers the coils off the cars to cradles where they are then transferred to trucks for delivery as needed. By the way, the way the coils are loaded on trucks is 4 coils on an 18 wheeler flat. Two coils are chained down directly over the rear tandems on the trailer. The other two coils are chained on the front of the trailer directly over the tandem drivers on the tractor.
The BNSF shares the Malabar Yard in Vernon with the LAJ. They have an overhead crane where they transload coils as well as "shapes" (steel angle iron, I-beams, plate, channel iron, etc.)
The BNSF shares the Malabar Yard in Vernon with the LAJ. They have an overhead crane where they transload coils as well as "shapes" (steel angle iron, I-beams, plate, channel iron, etc.)