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  2. Gantry crane - Wikipedia

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    A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace. They can range from enormous "full" gantry cranes, capable of lifting some of the heaviest loads in the world, to small shop cranes, used for tasks such as lifting automobile engines out of vehicles.

  3. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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    Gantry crane A gantry crane to put a stagecoach on a flat car. A gantry crane has a hoist in a fixed machinery house or on a trolley that runs horizontally along rails, usually fitted on a single beam (mono-girder) or two beams (twin-girder). The crane frame is supported on a gantry system with equalized beams and wheels that run on the gantry ...

  4. Demag - Wikipedia

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    The company was a manufacturer of industrial cranes that included types like, bridge cranes, hoist (device), overhead cranes, Gantry crane to name a few. In 1910 came the hour of the Deutsche Maschinenfabrik in Duisburg – known worldwide by its telegram abbreviation Demag (now Demag Cranes & Components GmbH ).

  5. Homestead Steel Works - Wikipedia

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    Homestead Steel Works was a large steel works located on the Monongahela River at Homestead, Pennsylvania in the United States. The company developed in the nineteenth century as an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a railway 425 miles (684 km) long, and a line of lake steamships.

  6. Taisun - Wikipedia

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    The gantry crane holds the record for the heaviest weight lifted by a crane. [3] The amount of wire required to operate Taisun is nearly 50,000 meters or just over 31 miles, allowing it to lift a maximum of 80 meters. Taisun seen lifting the 14,000-ton deck box of the COSL Pioneer drilling semi-submersible.

  7. Intermodal freight transport - Wikipedia

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    A container crane is mounted on rails moving parallel to the ship's side, with a large boom spanning the distance between the ship's cargo hold and the quay. [5] Straddle carriers, and the larger rubber tyred gantry crane are able to straddle container stacks as well as rail and road vehicles, allowing for quick transfer of containers. [5]

  8. 'Largest floating crane' at Baltimore bridge site isn't the ...

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    The Port of Baltimore shared an image of the crane barge, Donjon's Chesapeake 1000, which ABC News reported was onsite Friday morning at the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The span ...

  9. Gantry - Wikipedia

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    Gantry (rocketry), the frame which encloses and services a rocket at its launch pad; Gantry crane, a crane having a hoist fitted in a trolley for parallel movement Rubber tyred gantry crane, a mobile gantry crane used in intermodal operations; Gantry tower or anchor portal, a structure commonly found in electrical substation or transmission line