Convertible freight car

Details Convertible freight car Convertible freight car

1983-01-07

1985-02-05

Reese, Randolph

Railway rolling stock

Special car bodies

Freight

105243, 220 85B, 296 27, 410 54, 410 58, B61D 502, B65D 8822, B60P 306

Patent

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044972598

ABSTRACT:
A convertible freight car operable as a flatbed car for receiving items such as lumber and the like or as a bulk storage freight car for bulk items such as grain or the like. The freight car is converted from the flatbed car to the bulk storage freight car when the flatbed is elevated upward permitting a plurality of flexible containers attached to the underside of the flatbed to be extended to form containers for receiving bulk goods or liquids.

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patent: 2773614 (1956-12-01), Edwards et al.
patent: 3037807 (1962-06-01), Hicks
patent: 3399633 (1968-09-01), Herscovitch
patent: 4092051 (1978-05-01), D'Orazio
patent: 4155469 (1979-05-01), Cole
patent: 4241947 (1980-12-01), Schroder

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