B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – F
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
F
105/175
B60F 1/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1299020
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An articulated railcar for transportation of highway trailers is lightweight and has a deck height which permits heavy highway trailers to be carried without exceeding the maximum allowable center of gravity height above the top of the rail. The railcar comprises a plurality of car bodies positioned end to end with articulated connections therebetween, each car body having a skeleton structure with a depressed center sill extending centrally for the length of the car body, the center sill having goose neck projections at each end, with the ends of the center sill at a higher elevation than the remainder of the center sill, end sills at each end of the center sill extending perpendicularly from each side of the center sill, the end sills adjoining the articulated connections, body side bearing pads located on the underside of each of the end sills, the body side bearing pads offset longitudinally from a plane representing the end of the center sill towards the adjoining articulated connection, a plurality of truck assemblies with wheels, the truck assemblies positioned below the articulated connections to support the adjoining ends of the car bodies and having truck side bearings located below the body side bearing pads, the articulated connections comprising connector means mounted on each of the truck assemblies for connecting the adjoining ends of the car bodies together, and for pivotally supporting the adjoining ends of the car bodies on each of the truck assemblies.
504415
Arrey Kelly J.
Wheatley Thomas W.
Canadian National Railway Company
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
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