Thank you for your interest in my longterm (job, family, other hobbies) project.

Intermodal Portal Crane

The aim
A portal crane with turnable winch house to operate 6wide containers in train or truck traffic environment.
The portal will span 3 railway tracks and allow a storage of containers outside the tracks on ground or trucks.

The winch house 
- It contains a winch to hoist and lower the spreader and is able to handle pneumatic tubes an cable from spreader.
- Can be turned 360 degrees by motor

The spreader
- Its length can be adjusted by mirco motor to handle 20ft, 30ft and 40+ft containers.
- The clamps to grab the container are pneumatic driven.

The crane trolley		
- Motor driven on small wheels

The portal
- Motor driven (number still open due to total weight)

Intermodal traffic handles also swap bodies and semi trailers which require armes to grab the unit at its bottom side.
I don't have any clue how to implement such functionality motor/pneumatic driven into the actual spreader design.
If you have any ideas or any comments please forward these to 
erik(dot)wulff(at)web(dot)de.

Many thanks to the Baltic Rail Gate - team in Luebeck Travemuende for their assistance.


Erik Wulff