Intermodal & Rail Services
Intermodal & Rail services may be a cost effective way for your company to ship your freight, especially if your freight isn't time sensitive. Rail transportation has proven to be a safe, cost-effective and efficient method for delivering a wide range of products.
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The intermodal and rail experts at Rolling Hills Logistics can help tailor a solution that best fits your budget and shipping needs. We offer door to door service, drayage service and port service through our multi-modal operations team, thus allowing us the ability to transport your goods and materials to virtually anywhere.
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RHL and ST Freight work together to maintain working relationships with all of North American's Class I major intermodal and railroads transportation companies.
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If you are looking to save on shipping cost and expand your shipping capacity, give the multi-modal team at RHL a call today. We will help you solve your intermodal and rail logistics needs and show you what makes Rolling Hills Logistics the one-stop shop, for all of your multi-modal shipment needs.
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Our Capabilities
BoxCars:
Boxcars are the main standard of rail freight, you will see boxcars making up the majority of many trains. Boxcars feature a solid roof and sliding doors in the center of each side, making it easy to load and unload palletized goods and other bulk items while protecting your freight from the outside elements. Boxcars are used to transport many different types of commodities from packaged goods to auto parts to canned foods. If it isn't refrigerated, you can put it in a boxcar.
Refrigerated BoxCars:
Refrigerated Boxcars or "reefers" are cars designed to haul refrigerated and frozen perishable freight at specific temperatures. Reefers are used to haul fresh and frozen foods, juices, as well as meat and poultry. If it's fresh or frozen, we can ship it.
FlatCars:
Flatcars are exactly what they sound like, they are flat open deck rail cars that are made from either wood or steel. Some flatcars will be completely flat and others will have bulkheads as pictured above. Flatcars are used for transporting large, long or irregularly shaped cargo. Flatcars are a highly used type of car as it can support transporting goods directly on the car or via intermodal freight.
Centerbeam Cars:
Centerbeam cars are designed to transport bundled goods typically building supplies like lumber, and fence post. Centerbeam cars are essential to providing secure transportation of these bundled goods due to a reinforced horizontal I-beam truss that runs down the center of the car.
Gondola Cars:
Gondola cars are open air rail cars with low sidewalls. This design allows them to transport high density bulk cargo. Typically, Gondolas are used to transport gravel, debris, rail track ties, and scrap. Unlike the hopper car that has release doors on the bottom of each car to unload, Gondola cars must be unloaded from the top.
Hopper Cars:
Hopper cars are a staple on the rail. If you have seen a train, you have seen a hopper. Hoppers are either open air or covered. They are specifically designed to transport loose, unpalletized such as gravel, sand, salt, corn, sugar, grains, etc. Covered hoppers have a roof and are best for commodities that aren't affected by outdoor elements.
Coil Cars:
Coil cars look more like a tank car but they are far from it. Technically, a coil car is a type of specialized gondola. Their circular design makes them the car of choice when transporting round steel coil products. Coil cars can be left open-top or fitted with a steal hood to cover and secure the cargo from the outdoor elements.
Tank Cars:
Tank cars or "tankers" are commonly used and designed to transport various types of liquid commodities. Chances are again, if you've seen a train, you've seen a tank car. Tank cars are long, circular tubes that have a value on the top that is used for loading and a drain on the bottom which is used for dispensing. Tank cars vary based on what they are designed to haul and can be lined on the inside with steel, glass, plastic or other materials specific for what the car is build for. Tank cars are used to haul a variety of products from oil and water to different chemicals and gasoline. Many tank cars contain hazardous materials.
Well Cars:
Well cars or "double-stack car" or just "stack car" is a popular, specially designed rail car that is used to carrier intermodal containers. Shipping containers themselves transport a wide variety of goods, so in reality just about any product could be riding in a shipping container and on a well car. Chances are you have not only seen these cars on a train, but you may have seen the whole train made up of these cars. These trains are known as "stack trains". These cars are a staple in intermodal shipping because the cars can support one or two shipping containers per car allowing clients to ship more for less because the allow the railroads to ship more. In addition to intermodal stack cars, there are also well cars know as "all purpose" well cars which are capable of carrying fully loaded semi-trailers.
If you need to ship it, we will find the right solution for you!
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RHL & our partners are committed to providing our clients with superior service and capacity to handle any of your rail or intermodal shipment needs.
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Give our intermodal and rail team a call today so that we can help you solve your logistics needs and show you what makes Rolling Hills Logistics the one-stop shop for all of your intermodal and rail shipment needs.