ready for peak performance
BTE’s proprietary Automatic Tool Recognition (ATR) system takes all the guesswork out of hi-rail machine setup, adjusting hydraulic flow, pressure, and controls to optimize for each attachment—immediately and automatically.
Custom-developed by BTE’s expert engineers, Automatic Tool Recognition ensures that your heavy equipment is steadily ready for peak performance, reducing setup errors, protecting your investment, and helping your team maximize every minute.
Our ATR technology also accelerates the training process with new operators and new equipment, giving your team the tools they need to work effectively, efficiently, and confidently, with no learning curve.
Automatic Tool Recognition Features
Safety Interlock
Ensures machine is set up properly with every attachment changeout, limiting potential damage.
Joystick Screen Setup
Displays functions clearly on screen, making attachment changes easy and risk-free.
Quick Coupler
Automatically locks out functions until proper setup is complete, protecting operator from potential issues.
Integrated Power
No extra hub, no battery-powered sensors to maintain. When you're ready to work, so is our ATR technology.
Only Available With BTE Machines
Expertly engineered and backed by rigorous field testing, BTE heavy equipment sets the standard for hi-rail efficiency and dependability. And only purpose-built BTE machines offer our proprietary Automatic Tool Recognition system, designed to save your team time, ensure optimal performance, and maximize productivity across every application.
Superior Attachments for Every Hi-Rail Application
BTE developed a full line of customized work attachments to make the most challenging maintenance of way applications simpler, safer, and more efficient. Change out any of our innovative hi-rail attachments on a BTE machine and Automatic Tool Recognition ensures you’re optimized and ready to work, no adjustments needed.
Undercutting & Tamping
With one operator, our innovative fouled ballast solutions, and a BTE Hi-Rail Excavator, the process of track defect remediation can be fast, efficient, and cost-effective.
Tie Handling
Our engineers addressed the rigors of tie work with safety and efficiency upgrades including enhanced clamping force and tungsten carbide-tipped jaws for a more secure grip.
Rail Construction
Completing 200 tie changes an hour. Unloading 20 track panels in under 45 minutes. With BTE's rail construction attachments, MOW crews are setting productivity
Buy or Lease
We Make it Easy.
Whether you’re looking to add a powerhouse hi-rail excavator to your fleet or lease a compact panel lifter for emergency repairs, BTE can help you get the equipment you need, when you need it.
We offer equipment financing, short-term and long-term leasing, and the most informed and attentive customer service division in the industry. Plus, with our centrally located headquarters in Missouri and strategic locations throughout North America, BTE solutions are always close enough to get you equipped and on task fast.
