Railcar moving vehicle

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1988-04-29

1989-11-07

Cherry, Johnny D.

Railway rolling stock

Locomotives

With land engaging wheel

105 261, 1052152, B61C 1100

Patent

active

048784362

ABSTRACT:
A railcar moving vehicle having rail wheels for operating on railroad track and having retractable road wheels for operating on road, the vehicle having a main frame and a pivotable frame which is connected to the main frame by a longitudinal pivot, there being mounted on the pivotable frame one rail wheel axle, a pair of driven road wheels, and hydraulic cylinders for raising and lowering the driven road wheels between inoperative and operative positions, whereby both the driven road wheels as well as the rail wheels are capable of oscillating or pivoting action to maintain equal wheel loadings on both the rail wheels and the road wheels.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3198137 (1963-02-01), White, Jr.
patent: 3605932 (1969-04-01), Wilfert et al.
patent: 4067259 (1978-01-01), Ames et al.
patent: 4355584 (1982-10-01), White, Jr.
Brochure-There's Something New Coming Down the Track, The New 12,000-Switchmaster-Marmon Transmotive Company-Feb. 1987.
Brochure-Model 12,000 Switchmaster by Marmon Transmotive Company, Feb. 1987.

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