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  2. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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    M1074 truck, palletized loading, 10 × 10 with material handling crane and 20K winch – palletized load system; M1075 truck, palletized loading, 10 x 10 w/o material handling crane – palletized load system; M1076 palletized load system trailer (PLST) – palletized load system; M1077 truck, flatrack, palletized load system, (PLST)

  3. Catenary maintenance vehicle - Wikipedia

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    An Amtrak catenary maintenance vehicle. Both a crane and a movable platform can be seen on the vehicle's roof. A catenary maintenance vehicle (also known as a tower wagon or tower car) is a railroad maintenance of way vehicle that is used to maintain and inspect overhead line (also known as catenary) on electrified railroad or metro tracks.

  4. Lift-on/lift-off - Wikipedia

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    Lift-on/lift-off (LoLo, sometimes LOLO, LO/LO or Lo/Lo) [1] ships are cargo ships with on-board cranes to load and unload cargo. Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels. As container ships usually have no on-board cranes or other mechanism to load or unload their cargo, they are therefore ...

  5. Crane (rail) - Wikipedia

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    Rail Crane Rail SPA Crane (750 mm) Czech PW maintenance crane Electric crane replacing track on the Toronto streetcar system (1917). A railway crane (North America: railroad crane, crane car or wrecker; UK: breakdown crane) is a type of crane used on a railway for one of three primary purposes: freight handling in goods yards, permanent way (PW) maintenance, and accident recovery work.

  6. Schnabel car - Wikipedia

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    When empty, this car measures 231 ft (70 m) long; for comparison, a conventional boxcar currently operating on North American railroads has a single two-axle truck at each end of the car, measures 50 to 89 feet (15.24 to 27.13 m) long and has a capacity of 70 to 105 short tons (64 to 95 t; 63 to 94 long tons). The train's speed is limited to 25 ...

  7. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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    A loader crane (also called a knuckle-boom crane or articulating crane) is an hydraulically powered articulated arm fitted to a truck or trailer, and is used for loading/unloading the vehicle cargo. The numerous jointed sections can be folded into a small space when the crane is not in use.

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  9. Armoured recovery vehicle - Wikipedia

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    A US Marine Corps M88A2 Hercules in 2014, lifting an M1 Abrams engine with its crane.. An armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) is typically a powerful tank or armoured personnel carrier (APC) chassis modified for use during combat for military vehicle recovery (towing) or repair of battle-damaged, stuck, and/or inoperable armoured fighting vehicles, such as tanks and armoured personnel carriers.