2024 Brandt Power Unit R4 Emergency Response Vehicle

2024 Brandt Power Unit R4 Emergency Response Vehicle

Our success at Brandt comes from focusing on the needs of our customers. For over 25 years, railways and Transits have relied on the Brandt Power Unit to provide a mobile and versatile car mover, and we are now proud to introduce the newest and most advanced Power Unit yet, the Emergency Response Unit.

We interviewed current Brandt Power Unit operators, Service managers and mechanics, to learn how we could make the Brandt Power Unit more valuable to your operations. You asked for improved reliability, better operator comfort, and easier serviceability. The delivers all of that, and more.

The all new Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) supplies you with the power you need to get to the emergency quickly and pull the light rail vehicles (LRV) up the steep grades found on light rail transit systems. With up to 600 horsepower the ERV can achieve up to 30,000 lbs. of tractive effort without weight transfer in a very compact envelope fitting even the smallest dimensional envelopes found in transit systems. This enables you to pull heavier loads up steeper grades at higher speeds without losing traction. Your response time to get to the emergency with the necessary re-railing and emergency equipment and then pull the LRVs to safety is dramatically reduced because of these higher speeds and very high tractive effort.

The Brandt ERV is able to use both rail and road infrastructure to get to the emergency. This ability enables you to quickly get to the location and respond to the emergency more quickly than any other vehicle. The Brandt ERV can be easily converted from Road to Rail or Rail to Road in less than 3 minutes, and is ready to go when you are.

Designed with many productive options, the ERV excels at a wide variety of jobs from emergency responses to performing many maintenance tasks as a maintenance vehicle.

Safety is the most important quality of any equipment manufactured for the rail environment. Accordingly, many safety features have been designed into the ERV to ensure the operator is working in a safe and secure environment.

Features may include:

• Ensure the quickest response time possible with a top speed of 60 mph while on road and 40MPH on rail in forward direction and 25MPH in reverse. With Brandt’s high rail system you will be on the track within 3 minutes or less making sure that no time is wasted during these Emergencies.

• A reel containing a 50 foot hydraulic hose can be mounted anywhere on the vehicle providing power to the re-railing equipment and other hydraulic tools used for emergency rescue with either 5 or 10 gallons per minute at required pressure.

• The ERV can be fitted with a Knuckle Boom crane for Maintenance of Way work. The heavy duty lifting capacity of the crane enables the user to tackle many material handling job efficiently. A ¼ cord Grapple and/or a 30 inch 5KW magnet/generator system is also available to handle Maintenance of Way materials.

• We introduced Logic Programming to adjust speed or to shut down systems such as cooling fans, air compressors, safety interlocks, etc. to reduce the overall hours on auxiliary equipment, decrease fuel usage and ensure a safe environment for the operation on the vehicle.

• The Freightliner platform brings with it a strong domestic and international dealer network to provide support wherever your work takes you.