Dual bottom trough gondola railway car

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1977-08-22

1981-03-10

Beltran, Howard

Railway rolling stock

Car framing and structure

Freight

105364, 105416, 105419, 105422, B61D 300, B61D 700, B61D 1710

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042547148

ABSTRACT:
A gondola railway car having a car truck attached to each end of a continuous center sill, a pair of generally vertical end panels, a pair of generally vertical side panels joined to the end panels, a plurality of cross bearers extending from the center sill to a longitudinal chord at the bottom of each side panel, a car bottom between the end and side panels having substantially flat portions over the trucks and a pair of longitudinal trough portions between the trucks and the flat bottom portions, each trough portion having a side edge joined to a side panel bottom edge and a side edge joined to the center sill, and an end wall at each end of each trough extending to the adjacent flat bottom portion.

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Carbuilder, Pulman Standard, Jan. 1977, Issue No. 1, Cover, XXXIX, 8, 9, and Rear Mailing Cover pp. _
Progressive Railroading, Murphy-Richter Publishing Co., It's Called the "Coalporter", Front Cover; Contents, 5; 67; pp., Aug. 1977. _

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