RTG Cranes
Rubber Tyred Gantry Crane (RTG Crane) is mobile gantry crane used in intermodal operations to ground or stack containers. RTGs typically straddle multiple lanes, with one lane reserved for container transfers. The mobility of RTGs are due diesel generator used.
Due to the lack of an electrical grid to dump energy when containers are being lowered they often have large resistor packs to rapidly dissipate the energy of a lowering or decelerating container. Aside from the intermodal industry, RTGs also are extensively used in industry. Applications include erecting large unbalaanced structures, assembling large manufacturing components, and positioning pipelines.
