B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – F
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
F
104/33.11
B60F 1/04 (2006.01) B61J 1/12 (2006.01) B62D 49/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1231586
COMBINATION RAILCAR MOVING VEHICLE AND TRAILER SPOTTER Inventor: Eugene B. White, Jr. ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A combination railcar moving vehicle utilizing the weight transfer principle and trailer spotter which has a plurality of steel rail wheels for moving a railcar along rail, and has a plurality of road wheels for spotting a highway trailer in a switching yard, the combination vehicle including four rail wheels, two of which are driven, and four road wheels, two of which are driven, so as to provide 2-wheel rail drive and 2-wheel road drive, and further having oscillating means for permitting the remaining free-wheeling road and rail wheels to oscillate up and down to accommodate uneven rail or ground conditions. When the machine is operating on rail it is working inside the AAR clearance patterns stipulated by the American Association of Railroads.
421293
Macrae & Co.
White Machinery Corporation
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