Gangways aren't one product; they're a family of answers. A spot that loads every shift, a walkway serving six different trailer heights, a rack with no power run, a washdown bay that eats carbon steel. Each has a right answer, and the wrong one costs you twice. Here's the line, straight: what each one is, what it's for, and the spec sheets to hand your engineer.
A spot gangway. Titan-class, with the right cage. On a fixed platform. The daily-duty answer. Spot gangways ↓
A Wide Access Gangway. A full, level walking surface over the vehicle, not a single plank to one hatch. WAG family ↓
The self-adjusting stair gangway. Treads that level themselves to every vehicle. SAS ↓
A mobile unit that rolls between bays. Quoted in days, no civil work. Mobile units →
The Apollo aluminum series. The line we lead with. Built for washdown, salt, and corrosives that eat coated steel, and the well-engineered default everywhere else. Apollo ↓
Custom-engineered access. Measured at your site, drawn, and built to the situation. Custom ↓
When crews work multiple hatches, gauge, sample, and hose-connect across the vehicle, a wide access gangway puts a full serrated-grate walking surface over the top with all-around Surround-U-Rail fall protection. Two ways to run it. Powered or manual, and both come in truck, railcar, and custom configurations.
Push a lever: the ramp pivots level, travels down to the vehicle, and sets a full working deck. Push it back: it rises and folds clear. One packaged power unit runs up to four ramps, so a powered rack scales without four conduit runs.
Factory-set mechanical balances mean one operator raises and lowers the full ramp smoothly, and a securing latch locks it stowed. For the spots that don't have power and shouldn't need it to be safe.
Sized to your fleet's heights and hatch layouts, with the cage and rail configuration matched to how your drivers and operators actually move up top.
Railcar geometry is its own world, and some sites are their own world entirely. Both get measured, drawn, and engineered to the spot, on the same WAG bones.
The gangway we quote first. Apollo is HEMCO's new-generation line. Engineered by the bench that built the modern category, and meant to be the main line, not a niche. It runs in aluminum: no rust, no re-galvanizing, lighter on every cycle, which makes it the right call for washdown, marine air, food and pharma, and corrosive service, and the well-engineered default everywhere else. If you call us for a gangway, this is what we'll spec.
The simple, durable answer when platform height and vehicle height agree. Hopper cars and truck tops, in aluminum, with no coating to maintain.
The self-leveling motion in aluminum. Treads that level to every trailer height, with nothing to rust or re-coat.
Aluminum access platforms to match. The full working surface, at a fraction of the dead weight.
The Apollo line is new and moving fast. Spec sheets are issued per-application while the series rolls out. Send your application and we'll return the Apollo spec that fits it, with the drawing.
The galvanized spot and self-adjusting gangways HEMCO has built for 50-plus years. Straightforward, time-tested access for the spots that just need to be reliable. Not where we lead, but the right-sized answer when the duty is light and the budget is the driver.
Self-leveling access to hatches, tops, and hose connections with under 30 lb of pull to retract. Light enough that nobody's tempted to skip it. Bolts directly to your existing rack or stringer, which makes it the natural retrofit when an old gangway comes off.
Stair treads that level themselves to each vehicle. 3, 4, 5, or 6-tread standard models reaching as far off the walkway as the spot requires. Factory-set tension-spring balances keep the whole assembly effortless through its full range. (Those springs are exactly what our maintenance program keeps in tune.)
Flared for lids that swing left or right. Full clearance without lifting the cage away. The cement and pneumatic-trailer answer; we've been fitting them since 2012.
Enclosure options for every gangway in the family, matched to your fleet's actual hatch layouts, not a one-size guess.
One gangway, two spots: track and carriage assemblies let a single unit serve a longer stretch of rack. The right-sizing move for staggered schedules.
Self-closing, galvanized, toe-plated. Adjustable to openings from 28" to 36", built to OSHA spec for ladderways and platform breaks.
Every product above can be bought wrong. A powered WAG where there's no conduit, a fixed spot where the schedule says mobile, a steel deck where the washdown says aluminum. The line only works because someone reads your spots before picking from it. That's the site visit, and it's free, every time.
We measure, read the duty cycle, and size the family member that fits, including the honest call when it's the cheaper one.
Book the visit →Model, length, metal, cage. Send it over and the quote comes back fast with the drawing attached.
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