Railway rolling stock – Locomotives – With land engaging wheel
Patent
1988-12-15
1990-07-17
Focarino, Margaret A.
Railway rolling stock
Locomotives
With land engaging wheel
105178, 301128, B61D 1500
Patent
active
049414089
ABSTRACT:
The subject invention is an improved frame mechanism adapted to be deployed and otherwise integrally affixed on a land based motor vehicle that is adapted to retrofitted with rail wheels in addition to conventional land based wheels, in order to enable the motor vehicle to ride on railroad tracks, in addition to being capable of being driven on non-rail surfaces. The apparatus incorporating the features of the subject invention comprises, in general, a longitudinally extending support system adapted to hold the rail wheels therein, which support system is connected to the motor vehicle base frame in a transverse manner, said support system being constructed to be laterally shortened or elongated to move the wheel members inwardly or outwardly to correspondingly adjust the distance between the rail wheels.
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Focarino Margaret A.
Pape Joseph D.
Royer George R.
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