All purpose railroad car
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.
- Assignee:
- Trailer Train Co., Chicago, IL
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4636119
- OSTI ID:
- 7174948
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 24 Sep 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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