Improved intermodal rail vehicle to form a train

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B61D 3/18 (2006.01) B61D 3/12 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2710112

Refinements and improvements in intermodal rail vehicles for making up a train of highway trailers are shown. The improved intermodal vehicle has a one-piece upper frame assembly (26) with a horizontal load carrying surface below the ends of a drawbar for connecting the trailers. Each highway trailer has a coupler socket assembly at both its front and rear into which the drawbar enters and is connected to the intermodal vehicle by a vertical coupling pin projecting upward from the horizontal load carrying surface. The upper frame is supported from dual steerable lower frames (28) by primary air springs (90). A backup suspension system is provided so as to support the upper frame in the event of failure of the primary air springs. A transition rail vehicle for adapting the unit train of trailers is provided, incorporating the necessary features of the intermediate intermodal vehicles heretofore described.

L'invention concerne des raffinements et des améliorations apportés à des véhicules ferroviaires intermodaux en vue de réaliser un train de remorques routières. Le véhicule intermodal amélioré a un ensemble châssis supérieur monobloc (26) avec une surface portante horizontale sous les extrémités d'une barre de traction à des fins d'accouplement des remorques. Chaque remorque routière a un ensemble douille d'attelage à la fois à l'avant et à l'arrière, dans lequel la barre de traction pénètre avec accouplement au véhicule intermodal par une cheville d'attelage du type vertical se projetant vers le haut depuis la surface portante horizontale. Le châssis supérieur est supporté au niveau de châssis inférieurs orientables doubles (28) par des ressorts pneumatiques primaires (90). Un système de suspension de secours est mis en uvre pour supporter le châssis supérieur en cas de défaillance des ressorts pneumatiques primaires. L'invention concerne également un véhicule ferroviaire de transition permettant d'adapter le train bloc de remorques, incorporant les caractéristiques nécessaires des véhicules intermodaux intermédiaires décrits ci-dessus.

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