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Title: All purpose railroad car

Abstract

An all purpose railroad car is described for transporting wheeled trailers and containers, the car comprising an elongated frame supported by wheel trucks, combined hitch and bolster means adjacent one end of the frame for selectively receiving and releasably retaining a trailer king pin and one end of a container. A means is spaced from the combined hitch and bolster means for selectively receiving and supporting the wheels of a wheeled trailer and the other end of a container. The combined hitch and bolster means is an integral rigid structure with the hitch fixed in spaced relationship to the bolster with both the hitch and the bolster permanently disposed in operative position to respectively receive and retain a trailer king pin and a container.

Inventors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
7174948
Patent Number(s):
US 4636119
Assignee:
Trailer Train Co., Chicago, IL
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 24 Sep 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; RAILROAD CARS; DESIGN; CONTAINERS; SPACE DEPENDENCE; TRAILERS; WHEELS; TRAINS; VEHICLES; 320202* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Transportation- Railway

Citation Formats

Terlecky, B S. All purpose railroad car. United States: N. p., 1987. Web.
Terlecky, B S. All purpose railroad car. United States.
Terlecky, B S. 1987. "All purpose railroad car". United States.
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abstractNote = {An all purpose railroad car is described for transporting wheeled trailers and containers, the car comprising an elongated frame supported by wheel trucks, combined hitch and bolster means adjacent one end of the frame for selectively receiving and releasably retaining a trailer king pin and one end of a container. A means is spaced from the combined hitch and bolster means for selectively receiving and supporting the wheels of a wheeled trailer and the other end of a container. The combined hitch and bolster means is an integral rigid structure with the hitch fixed in spaced relationship to the bolster with both the hitch and the bolster permanently disposed in operative position to respectively receive and retain a trailer king pin and a container.},
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year = {Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 1987}
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