Industry · Rail & Bulk Transport

Every Railcar Sitting in the Wash Yard Is Revenue Left on the Siding.

ACS robotics bring 360° interior coverage to tank cars, hoppers, and ISO containers — so the heavy wash cycle runs without a hot entry permit. Faster cycles, documented results, happier shippers, and any Final Clean verification done only after the car is safe.

A tank car interior is a permit-required confined space. ACS cuts those permits out of the heavy-wash phase — 360° rotation, top-entry nozzles, and live video from a safe distance do the work while the car stays closed.

What We Clean

Railcars, Hoppers, Trailers & Tanks We Service

From crude and ethanol tank cars to chemical ISO containers and tanker trailers, ACS tools deliver the same documented, repeatable interior clean your shippers and AAR auditors expect — in a fraction of the manual time.

General Service Tank Cars

Pressure Tank Cars (LPG, VCM)

Crude Oil & Ethanol Cars

Chemical Service Tank Cars

Covered Hopper Cars

Open-Top Hoppers

Tanker Trailers

ISO Tank Containers

Vacuum & Frac Trailers

Rail & Road Slop Tanks

Food-Grade Cars (Kosher / Halal Ready)

Asphalt & Resid Cars

Industry Challenges

Why Fleet Operators & Wash Yards Partner With ACS

Turnaround Economics

Industry case studies have shown automated interior cleaning significantly dropping cycle times — enough to unlock multiple extra runs per month on a mid-sized fleet.

Confined-Space Liability

A tech in a tank car needs air supply, a spotter, non-sparking tools, and an entry permit. ACS removes the entry from the hazardous wash phase — and the compliance chain that goes with it.

Cleaning Certification

Every run needs a paper trail — cleaning certificate, waste manifest, valve report. Overseer stamps time, coverage, and pressure onto a video record your compliance team can drop straight into the file.

Cross-Contamination Risk

A single failed post-clean inspection on a chemical or food-grade car can reject an entire load. Repeatable robotic coverage is cross-contamination insurance.

Lining Preservation

Interior linings (phenolics, novolacs, crude-service epoxies) are expensive to replace. Controlled, programmed cleaning reduces gouging and over-blasting that forces premature reline.

Fleet-Scale Repeatability

Manual cleaning quality follows whichever crew shows up. Programmed Overseer patterns mean every car in the wash yard gets identical coverage, shift after shift.

The Stack

Built for Railcars, Trailers & ISOs

The Orbiter is the workhorse — a 4″ 150# flange mount drops it through any standard manway for full 360° coverage.

Railcar-Ready

The Orbiter™

Rotating Cleaning Tool

Overseer™ Software

Automated Cleaning, Live Video, and Job Reports for Every Car.

Every ACS tool on site ties back to Overseer 3D (on a laptop) or Overseer Mobile (on a tablet or phone). Operators see a live digital twin of the tank, program cleaning patterns to match tank geometry and debris zones, and capture timestamped video for inspection and QA/QC records.

Automated cleaning cycles - set up and run repeatable wash sequences from the console.
Camera and lighting - see what the Orbiter is doing inside the car in real time.
Visual verification - confirm interior cleanliness on-screen before anyone opens manways for Final Clean.
Job reports - create cleaning certificates per car with run data and video for your records.

Car ID

ACFX 77412

Last Commodity

Crude Oil

Recipe

CRUDE-STD-4550

Stage

Hot Rinse · Phase 3/4

Coverage

93%

Elapsed

4h 12m

LEL / O₂

OK · OK

Certificate

Auto-generating

Outcomes

What Fleets & Wash Yards See

0 %+

Shorter Turnaround

0 %

Fewer Permitted Entries

0 %

Documented Runs

0 /7

Wash-Bay Availability

Scaling a wash yard or fleet cleaning program?

Tell us the commodities, car types, and throughput target. We’ll map an Orbiter + Overseer configuration against your bay layout and cycle-time goal.