Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 28, 2009

Transloading coal from railroad hopper cars to ships involved first getting the coal out of the hoppers and then transferring it onto the ships. Here, the hopper cars are pushed up a short incline by a car pusher where the cars' bottom doors are opened and the coal is emptied by gravity. The coal is then carried up the structure, in this case in bucketloads via an elevator system, and loaded onto the ships.