Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Nordco Inc.

Eric John Slocombe

Andrew Marcus Noyes

Joel Wesley Frank

Michael Terrence Blouin

Lee William Campbell

A vehicle includes a body having a front side, rear side, left side, and right side, and a cab that is movably coupled with the body. The cab includes a front end, a rear end, a left end, and a right end. The vehicle includes an actuator that is operably coupled with the cab and may move the cab between a first position and a second position. Moving the cab from the first position toward the second position moves the cab away from the right side of the body, and moving the cab from the second position toward the first position moves the cab toward the right side of the body.

Vehicle having a movable cab and actuator

A traction system is provided for a rail draft vehicle including an engine with a driveshaft, at least a pair of rubber-tired traction wheels, and at least one rail guide wheel pressurized relative to the vehicle by at least one fluid-powered cylinder. Included in the system are a programmable processor connected to a driveshaft speed sensor, a rail guide wheel speed sensor, an engine throttle controller, a fluid-powered cylinder controller and a vehicle control panel. The processor is constructed and arranged for automatically adjusting the engine throttle controller in coordination with the fluid-powered cylinder controller for achieving movement of the rail draft vehicle from a dead stop position by increasing applied vehicle weight upon the traction wheels by the at least one fluid-powered cylinder and adjusting engine RPM's until the vehicle begins movement as detected by the rail guide wheel speed sensor.

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Overland Park, KS, United States of America

Eric John Slocombe