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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am adding a new feature to the Cargo Beamer concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is called the <i>Automatic Pallet Pocket</i> (APP).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The pallets would be made stackable if they are not already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Each Beamer hub would have one or more APPs that would each hold say 10 pallets in a stack.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Say the Beamer hub had fifty trailer slots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Some, if not all of these would have had pallets left in them from unloading the last railcars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If incoming trucks happen to need additional pallets before they become available from unloading trains, the extra pallets could be withdrawn from the APP.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Removing pallets from the AAP and placing them at various trailer slots, and vice versa, would be a robotic process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And also, the railcars would be capable of carrying stacks of empty pallets for redistribution to where they are needed. </span></span></span></p>
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