Thrall Car Manufacturing Company

Alcan International Limited

Ortner Freight Car Company

John A Ritter

Keith J Hallam

James J Schuller

Norman S Adams

Jan Z Tomaka

Jozes A Muda

Eugene T Fehrenbach

A railroad gondola car having improved side sills, internal horizontal tension braces and diagonal braces with cast metal connectors at the ends of the braces and doubler plates on the side wall post flanges for reinforcement purposes where posts are connected to the ends of the body bolsters and where the braces are connected to the car side walls opposite a side wall post.

Railroad gondola or hopper car, particularly a coal car

A railroad hopper car having bottom discharge doors, an elongated beam assembly along the bottom of the car, door operating levers to open and close the doors connected to the beam assembly and doors, and lost motion timing connections in the beam assembly which permits displacement of beam sections to open and close pairs or sets of doors in a sequential but substantially simultaneous and automatic order so ast to permit reduction of air pressure required to open the doors, or permit use of smaller diameter air cylinder, a pneumatic drive to move the beam in opposite directions to open and close the doors, and a secondary lock to maintain the beam stationary unless pneumatic pressure intentionally operates the pneumatic drive, with the lock being positioned to be readily seen when locked and safely operated if necessary from the wayside.

Hopper car with automatic discharge door mechanism

A railroad hopper car having bottom discharge doors, an elongated beam assembly along the bottom of the car, door operating levers to open and close the doors connected to the beam assembly and doors, and lost motion connections in the beam assembly which permit displacement of beam sections to open and close pairs of doors in a sequential but substantially simultaneous and automatic order, and a pneumatic drive to move the beam in opposite directions to open and close the doors.

A railroad car for transporting double stacked shipping containers capable of supporting top containers of at least two different lengths against longitudinal and lateral movement comprising a car which supports a lower container, each end of the car body having a bulkhead structure which includes a lateral end wall and a pair of side walls extending longitudinally inwardly from the end wall, each side wall of a pair of such walls having a container restraining member mounted for rotation about a vertical axis from a stored position where it does not reduce the clearance between opposing side walls to an operating position where it at least projects laterally inwardly of the side wall to be positioned adjacent a vertical end corner of a top container, a rotatable shaft extending laterally across the car body and having a handle at each end for manual rotation of the shaft from about track grade, and drive means interconnecting the shaft and a container restraining member on each side wall whereby rotation of the shaft in one direction causes the restraining members to rotate in opposite directions from stored to operating position and rotation of the shaft in the opposite direction causes the restraining members to rotate in opposite directions from operating to stored position.

Railroad car with double stack container restraint system

A railway flatcar for carrying a highway trailer, the flatcar having been converted from a conventional railway box car. The sides, ends and roof of a conventional box car are cut and removed therefrom substantially at the floor line. The side sill assemblies of the car are reinforced substantially throughout their length. At the bogie end of the car, those portions of the out-board floor stringers spanning between adjacent cross ties and cross bearers are reinforced. The cross ties are also reinforced and/or additional cross ties added at the bogie end of the car. At the hitch end of the car, appropriate reinforcement and mounting means are located along the bolster and center sill to which a conventional trailer hitch is affixed. When the car is to be used with circus style loading ramps, the trailer hitch is of the retractable type and the floor of the car is left in tact throughout the length of the car, except at the position of the trailer hitch, with longitudinally extending curb members mounted above the side sill assemblies. When the car is to be used with overhead or side loading crane equipment, the trailer hitch may be of the rigid type; the car floor is removed from the hitch end of the car; and the floor at the bogie end of the car supports tire guides positioned to be straddled by the highway trailer tires. The brake wheel and support therefor are relocated to one side of the flatcar near the B end thereof.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

John A Ritter