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High density narrow-profile storage system

  • US 6,190,107 B1
  • Filed: 01/27/1999
  • Issued: 02/20/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A high density narrow-profile storage method, comprising the steps of:

  • providing a storage yard including a track, a storage area adjacent and parallel to the track and a plurality of strategically positioned buffers adjacent and parallel to the storage area;

    unloading a container from a train car;

    storing the container in the storage area;

    loading the container on one of the strategically positioned buffers in proximity to the storage area, in a substantially unitary step of picking and placing the container on one of the strategically positioned buffers by use of a crane;

    lowering the container which is on one of the strategically positioned buffers, on a chassis of a tractor trailer; and

    transporting the container away from one of the strategically positioned buffers, with a tractor trailer.

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