The Slot Machine is a unique, super-long rail car that is fast and efficient for hauling most any bulk material. It is a continuous, articulated gondola car with sections 33 feet long between two-axle trucks. The floor is 8.5 feet wide, and the side walls are 40 inches high for the full length of the train. The walls are furnished with sliding joints to allow the train to go around curves.

The Slot Machine is loaded from the top like a gondola. A crawler-mounted shovel can travel the full length of the train unloading the payload over the side. With grousers on its track pads, it engages slots in the floor for horizontal thrust. The shovel not only loads and unloads material from the Slot Machine allowing for back hauls and disposals at more than one location, but it can also load and unload additional rail cars that may be at the site. With this capability, the versatile Slot Machine can make any spur or siding an unloading site, no special facilities required, and unloading is done at 2 or 3 times the speed of the car-top backhoe system, leaving the bottom of the car cleaner.

The Slot Machine has been thoroughly tested for hauling various commodities, rock, rip rap, aggregate, gravel, sand, wood chips, iron ore, broken concrete or most other bulk materials. In addition, the Slot Machine hauls long sections of pipe, light poles that are too long for trucks or other rail cars, welded rail and fiber optic cables. The Slot Machine will also accommodate containers shipping either to different drop locations or one trans-load yard.

Designed as a sprint-type unit, the Slot Machine's capacity is expandable by adding additional units to the consist. A drop-end gate allows the unloading machine to pass between separate units.

The Slot Machine is the perfect tool for installing panel track to provide immediate rail access. Over 1000 ft. of both curved and straight panel track fit easily in the super long "continuous car". At the construction site, the Cat 215 lifts the panel track from the Slot Machine and places it in position to be bolted together. New track access can be installed at the rate of 200 ft. per hour.

Put the Slot Machine to work for you. Call Georgetown Railroad to find out how years of short-line railroad experience can solve your materials moving problem. 512-863-2538.