Side wall for railway hopper car

Details Side wall for railway hopper car Side wall for railway hopper car

1978-10-10

1981-02-24

Bertsch, Richard A.

Railway rolling stock

Car framing and structure

Freight

296181, B61D 700

Patent

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042520673

ABSTRACT:
A side wall arrangement for an open top hopper or railway gondola car having a metal plate construction and including top chord or sill members spanning the outside top edges of the walls. The top chord members are of a lightweight unitary formed plate construction providing axial and lateral rigidification for the wall so as to resist lateral warping or deflection thereof during rotary dumping operations.

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