Riverside Heavy Maintenance Building

Riverside Heavy Maintenance Building is a 32,000-square-foot heavy facility that expands the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration (MDOT MTA)'s ability to meet the maintenance and overhaul needs of their fleet of locomotives and coaches. The building decreases repair times, increases fleet availability, and improves on-time performance for MARC trains. It also supports the future needs of the rail service. 

The facility includes an overhead bridge crane with a 30-ton main hoist and 10-ton auxiliary hoist, an underfloor Wheel Truing Machine (WTM) capable of in-situ wheel re-profiling for rail vehicles, a 100-ton capacity Drop Table (DT) system capable of dropping and transferring the trucks and wheelsets of rail vehicles, a retractable fall protection system, a fluid distribution system, and other equipment.