New Streetcar Delivery & Unloading

This streetcar, built by United Streetcar, LLC. (a division of Oregon Iron Works), is the first modern-design streetcar to be built in the United States. The vehicle was delivered by truck this morning, and unloaded onto the tracks at the Portland Streetcar maintenance facility. The design is based on streetcars built by Skoda in the Czech Republic, but updated to use parts from US suppliers and to meet the needs of US-based customers.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• united
• streetcar
• oregon
• iron
• works
• modern
• delivery
• unloading
• portland

[gimmespamnow]

Were those all manual chain hosts? And how did they get it to line up on the tracks, was that just really good work on the part of the truck driver and/or gantry crane placements or what? (I would have expected that they'd just get it close, then either use re-railers to put it on the track, or move the gantry cranes after it was down to pick it up and put it back down again. But they seemed to have lined it up perfectly on the first try...)

[bobrpdx]

They spent a lot of time lining up the truck, taking lots of measurements and going back and forth, and then they spent some time lining up the cranes. The trucking company had expertise in delivering/setting up specialized equipment. They lifted the streetcar off the truck, spent quite a bit more time measuring, and it was pretty close to spot-on when they finally lowered it.

[luckyowl249]

What a great sight. Offloading looked a bit old-fashioned but worked precisely!

[HawkPhotography]

Quite a different process to the unloading of the new LRTs in Edmonton. A CN spur is attached to an LRT siding and they offload from a flatbed car with 8 hydraulic hoists The Siemens cars used come out of Sacremento CA.

[Intransitman]

A great thing to watch!