Patent ID: 6679184
Filing Date: 2004-01-20
Classification: B61B

Abstract:
A method of clearing an immobile or derailed suspended coach in a suspended coach transportation system comprising the steps ofproviding the suspender coaches with suspender beams longer than the coach length; moving a mobile suspended coach towards the immobile or derailed suspended coach so that the ends of the immobile or derailed coach and the mobile coach abut; providing the suspended beam ends with an extensor and lifting mechanism which can extend from the suspender beam of the mobile coach and extend below the suspender beam of the derailed coach, latch on to the bottoms surface of the suspender beam and lift the beam and the coach so that the wheels of a bogie of the derailed coach are effectively above the rails on which the coach are effectively above the rails on which the coaches traverse; displacing the mobile suspended coach with the derailed coach secured thereto away from a rail line clear the derailed coach.