Equipment Design
Transportation Technology Services has over 100 years of railroad and engineering experience. TTS has provided engineering services to companies in the railroad industry designing various types of cars and analyses.
New cars designs have included:
- Flat cars 89' multipurpose, 60' heavy duty
- Gondola for scrap, ore, coal, and waste
- Covered Hoppers for grain, DDG, cement, and pellets
- Center Beam car for lumber, steel, and building product use
- Intermodal cars such as Spine, well, and standard flat cars
Rail Car Design
- Flat Cars
- Alaskan Railroad Flat Car (Photo)
- Gondolas
- Long Island Railroad Gondola: Designed using Solid Edge (Rendering 1 | Rendering 2 | Photo | Drawing - PDF)
- Box cars
- Open top hopper cars
- Covered hopper cars (Drawing - PDF)
- Heavy duty Flat and depressed cars
- MOW equipment
- Well car for maintenance of way (Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Drawing - PDF)
- Rail Train: Tie-Down Car (Photo | Drawing - PDF), Tunnel Car (Photo | Drawing - PDF), Roller Car (Photo | Drawing - PDF)
Rail Car Design Modification
- Container car cut down and modified to a Tie Gondola (Photo)
- Flat car to Log car-Log bunks with removable posts (Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Drawing - PDF)
- Bulkhead flat to wood bunk car (Photo | Drawing - PDF)
- Hay hauler (Photo | Drawing - PDF)
- Converted flat car to Gang flats (Photo | Drawing - PDF)
- Converted flat cars to Concrete tie flats (Photo | Drawing - PDF)
- Aggregate cut down (Photo | Drawing - PDF)
- Plastic pellet cut down (Drawing - PDF)
