BNSF "Big Lift" Autorack Auto Delivery Facility
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- On June 1, 2014 the BNSF opened a new auto facility south of Denver in Littleton, CO, that features three times the acreage, 12,000 feet of track, 61 unloading spots, and 2,200 parking spaces that can handle nearly twice the vehicles than the Irondale, CO, facility it replaced.
Big Lift can handle 130,000 vehicles annually and is designed to process up to 300,000 vehicles per year if expanded. The facility serves nearby dealerships as well as customers as far west as Salt Lake City, as far north as Wyoming, and as far south as Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM.
BNSF coordinates unloading operations at Big Lift with contractor American Auto Works, which helps the railroad provide 24-hour, dedicated switching services and a faster turnaround for carriers delivering vehicles to nearby dealerships. Vehicle makes handled include Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, Volkswagen, etc.
The bright red, dedicated switch engine is an EMD SD40-2 built as UP 8042 back in the mid-1970s.
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Seeing a train on the tracks is glorious enough. But I have always been obsessed with how they load, sort and get things done in the yard.
Nice demonstration of operations. Just like a model train layout.
Thanks for showing how the complete autorack operation works. Nicely done.
This was once a base point for helpers back in the DRGW/ATSF/BN/UP joint line days. This was also an intermodal facility. interesting to see it transform into an auto facility. it also went through a large spell of very little operations when the pushers moved back to Denver and the intermodal facility stopped operating. thanks for this.
Cool video. Nice to see the whole process of how cars and trucks are unloaded off the train.
BIG LIFT HAS NEVER BEEN SO BUSY, IRONDALE NOW DOES THE WORK THAT WAS DONE HERE
Great video and channel just subscribed
Great footage!
Appears BNSF owns the facility but has contracted out the operations.
A wonderful view. Awesome video.👍😊
I work there!!!!!!
Is there any way to get a status of a car in the auto facility? I bought a new Toyota Corolla and the Dealer says it's at the rail facility waiting for a truck to bring it to them. For the past three weeks they say the information says it'll be there "this week 11/11 - 11/17", but it doesn't show up and the information gets changed to the following week.
Question from the back ("The Latecomers"): at around 8:18, do the unloaders have to drive the length of six+ railcars to unload the vehicles, and if so, how is that done? I've driven by the facility in my Midwestern city a couple of times and became annoyingly curious. Apparently, it doesn't pay too much, but that's not why I'm here. I'm more curious about the unloading process, what happens if an unloader is caught whomping on an engine, etc.
Answers and points to resources would be appreciated!
There are ramps between the autoracks and they drive all the way through the entire length. If they bang one up? Insurance rates go up!
I've always known how Autoracks are loaded and unloaded, but how do they know what spot to park the cars in? Do they work off of a run sheet or something?
Not sure. Each vehicle must have an instruction sheet or barcode or something.
they are given a bay tag that has that vin # on it and tells them where to park,i work at the one in omaha
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