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Thank you for your interest in Railcars Sequencing Turntables, LLC.  I am the Co-Chairman of the company, Fred H. Wertz.  Below is some more detailed information on the functionality of the turntables to address your concerns.Railroad Industry LandscapeAccording to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company managers, a train's railcar is actually moving only 18% of the time and sitting in a yard or other facility for the remaining 82% of the time.  When sitting, the railcar is controlled by the railroad 55% of the time and customer 27% of the time.  Each 9,000-foot-long mainline train moves goods valuing $5 million to $10 million, unfinished to finished.  In such a lucrative industry, modernizing operations will have an exponential affect on total revenue.  The Railroad Industry faces problems that prevent it from running as efficiently as possible.  At this time, there is not enough capacity with mainline trackage.  Additionally, the handling of railcars at interchanges, flat yards, and hump yards is inefficient.  These problems prevent the handling of a number of railcars in a timely manner, decreasing the amount of revenue created by these operations.The R.S.T. SolutionThe mainline 9,000 foot long consist (train) follows the mainline track lead half way across the turntables.  Then, the head of consist and end of consist is simultaneously pushed onto the turntables and cut in blocks of railcars according to the predirected AEI (Automatic Equipment Indicator) or IRBO (Innovative Railroad Blocking Optimizer) manifest.Railcars Sequencing Turntables can accommodate 60 foot railcars, 90 foot railcars, three (3) articulated container flatcars, five (5) articulated container flatcars, switching locomotives, mainline haul locomotives, track mobiles simultaneously, inbound and outbound.The three (3) turntables total 1,018 feet in diameter and operate in unison or separately clockwise and counter clockwise.  All of this blocking and spotting can be accomplished in two hours or less on 18 acres of land, having a solar-paneled structural steel dome roof.R.S.T., LLC has developed a methodology for reducing idle railcar time and other inefficiencies inherent to the railroad industry.  Specifically, the Railcar Sequencing Turntable which provides a superior alternative for handling railcars than the technology that currently exists in the Railroad Industry.  This approach (in patent pending status with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) should reduce railcar dwell time and overall shipping time by upwards of 28%.  The 24 index tracks on the turntables serve, at all tangents of the 360 degree circumference, the following functions: <ul><li>Industrial park tenants</li><li>Intermodal top pick container transfer</li><li>Staging trackage for short line access and consist rebuilding for continuous main line haulage</li><li>Locomotive service and repair shop</li><li>Railcar repair and wheel truing shop</li><li>Railcar barge float service</li><li>Specialty product facilities</li><li>Electrical power substation</li></ul>For more information, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.freightturntables.com/">http://www.freightturntables.com/</a>.  There is an animated presentation under the FAQ section on the site.If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at 973-729-2904 or by email at <a href="mailto:fred.wertz@freightturntables.com">fred.wertz@freightturntables.com</a>.
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