Railroad Cars Transportation

Customer

Material Handling Manufacturing

Application

Transportation of Railroad Cars through the manufacturing process

Issue

Extreme Loads – each wheel had to carry 17,500 pounds and roll freely.

Solution

Caster Concepts sales and engineering team worked with the customer to design and build solid steel single flange wheels on a stub axle. The axle /wheel assembly was mounted between pillow blocks for increased bearing capacity and alignment. One set of wheels was driven to power the railroad cars through the manufacturing process.