DOI: 10.1115/1.4059215 ISSN: 0097-6822
Savings Effected in Handling Railroad Stores by Lift Trucks and Skid Platforms
J. V. MillerAbstract
Tremendous quantities of stores are handled by every American railroad. These stores are to a large extent received in a central storeroom and are then forwarded as needed to local storerooms in various centers. Under ordinary conditions this procedure involves considerable rehandling.
During the past few years the C. M. St. P. & P. R. R. has succeeded in cutting down this rehandling by storing many of its supplies on skid platforms. When shipments are made up to send out to the local centers the supplies are thus to a large extent picked up directly on the original platforms by means of lift trucks, moved into the railroad cars, transported to their destination and there unloaded by lift trucks. Three handlings are thereby eliminated.