Mechanical Paint Booth for Rail Facility

Overview Handling Specialty can custom engineer and manufacture wall-mounted lift platforms for any railcar or locomotive maintenance or assembly process. Vertical travel, capacity and overall platform size can all be varied to suit the exact specifications of any facility. Lifts can also be engineered and manufactured for Class 1 Div. 1 specification (explosion-proof). Features Electro-mechanically […]

Shim Table for Locomotives

Overview Handling Specialty custom designed and manufactured a mechanically-actuated shim table for a Canadian locomotive maintenance facility. The table was used in the shimming process, which adjusts wheel diameter differentials. After completing the trueing process, where wheels are ground back to a uniform roundness, the locomotive positions the wheels over the shim table. The table […]

Four Post Lift for Rail Truck Assembly System

Overview Handling Specialty worked collaboratively with a transportation company to design and manufacture equipment to be used in the testing and assembly of railcar bogies (also called wheelsets or trucks). This was a custom project requiring extensive collaboration between the customer and Handling Specialty’s engineering team to ensure the equipment met the customer’s precise requirements. […]

50 Ton Drop Table

Overview A large railroad maintenance facility in the United States required a 50-ton drop table to facilitate the changeout of traction motors on its locomotives. Handling Specialty custom engineered and designed a 50-ton drop table based on an original heavy-duty Whiting Corporation design. Whiting pioneered the development of the drop table concept. Wheelset changeouts are […]

Portable Electric Jacks: 5 to 20 ton

Overview Transit, LRT, Rail Vehicle Portable Electric jacks. Due to the large variety of transit, LRT and freight and tank car rail vehicle designs – all with different jacking pad locations and of various weights – Handling Specialty offers a range of portable electric jacks from 5 to 20-ton capacities. Features Design Variables Include: Capacities. […]

Portable Jacks 25-60 ton

Overview Reliability has been carefully engineered into every Whiting Portable Electric Jack. For over 80 years, our outstanding design and top quality construction have provided customers with decades of dependable service. This tradition has established Whiting Jacks as the foremost desired portable electric jack supplier around the world. Features Available in 25, 35, 50, and […]