The project consisted of assembly supervision, training for operational and maintenance client teams, commissioning and assisted operation of three (3) 20t Whiting Double Drop Tables, including its service tops, HMI and locking bar pockets.

The Double Drop Tables traverse on a set of rails laid perpendicularly and below the elevation of the rail car service tracks in a trench of prescribed depth. Two independently functioning twenty (20) metric ton hoist systems are located at either end of the Drop Table, both of which can contain, at various stages of the operation, either the existing wheel-set that is being replaced, or the new wheel-set that is being installed.

Ultimately, the Double Drop Table has been designed to decrease wheel-set change-out cycle times by making the new wheel-set promptly available after the existing wheel-set has been removed.