Railroad car for container transport

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1987-07-16

1989-02-28

Schwadron, Martin P.

Railway rolling stock

Special car bodies

Freight

105404, 105417, 410 78, B61D 308, B61F 110

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048077224

ABSTRACT:
A railroad car for transporting horizontal shipping containers includes (1) a vertical transistion box from the car center sill to the end wall of a well portion capable of receiving one or more shipping containers, (2) car body bottom side sills in the form of an inverted T-member, (3) shear plates at the bottom ends of the well portion, (4) a longitudinal plate in the car body well portion bottom joined to a shear plate at each end, and (5) reinforcement of the car body central portion so that it can transport two end-to-end abutting containers in the well.

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