Improved Rail Efficiency Through the Infinity Loop Design

HDR’s Paul Weber Shares Insights on the Design on the U.S. West Coast

HDR’s patented Infinity Loop rail design allows facilities to process multiple unit trains at the same time without clogging in the throat area where arriving and departing trains cross the same tracks. The design allows rail facilities to operate more efficiently, using previously unused space and reducing needed property acquisition.

Senior Rail Project Manager Paul Weber is one of the developers of the Infinity Loop design and described its planned implementation at the Port of Stockton in a recent interview with Railway Age magazine.

“Trains can arrive at any of three staging tracks without conflicting with other trains on site — even if another train is in the process of unloading,” Weber told the magazine. “As trains are unloaded, they are ‘turned around’ for departure, thus eliminating the need to re-position locomotives prior to departure.”

Read the article ““Infinity Loop Export Terminal Coming to California” in Railway Age.