Brakes – Vehicle – Railway
Patent
1998-07-24
2000-11-21
Butler, Douglas C.
Brakes
Vehicle
Railway
105 3, 105226, 303 85, B61H 1300
Patent
active
061489654
ABSTRACT:
An articulated railcar has several well car units for carrying shipping containers, highways trailers, or a combination of the two. The well car units permit the nose of a long highway trailer to overhang the articulated connection between two adjacent cars. A brake valve is located in a relief formed in the main bolster of one of the articulated units, out of the way of the overhanging trailer. Each well car unit has a side beam having a roll formed top chord reinforced by a top chord plate, a downwardly extending web, and a lower sill formed of a thick angle. The service, or auxiliary, and emergency brake reservoirs are mounted in a saddle bag configuration to the outside face of the webs of the opposite side beams of the articulated unit, tucked underneath the reinforced roll formed top chord.
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Forbes James W.
Haight Richard C.
Butler Douglas C.
National Steel Car Limited
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