摘要:
A symmetrical multi-unit railroad freight car, such as a 3-pack railroad intermodal well car, has body units that are connected symmetrically. The body units have a symmetrical arrangement of end trucks and shared trucks. The end trucks are 70 Ton Trucks. The shared trucks are 125 Ton trucks. The trucks have passive steering using geometric rocker stiffnesses. The rockers in the end trucks have a smaller radius of curvature than the rockers in the shared trucks. The spring groups in the shared trucks are stiffer than the spring groups in the end trucks. The spring groups in the end trucks have a different proportion of damping when empty, a shorter live load range of travel, and greater reserve travel than the shared trucks. The end trucks and the shared trucks have four-cornered damper groups that have the same sized damper wedges. The damper wedges have non-metallic wear pads.
摘要:
The railway vehicle (10) includes a plurality of cars (12, 20) articulated to one another, the plurality of cars including: a single first key car (12), having a first architecture, a plurality of second cars (20), having similar second architectures different from the first architecture. The first key car (12) has no dining area.
摘要:
A bellows assembly for an articulated vehicle connects a first vehicle module and a second vehicle module. The bellows assembly forms a tube between the first vehicle module and the second vehicle module with a top region and a bottom region, the top region corresponding to a roof region of the vehicle above an aisle of the vehicle. The bellows assembly includes a section configured to receive a lighting installation, the section being arranged in the top region of the bellows assembly. Further, an articulated vehicle with such a bellows assembly and a system for installing such a bellows assembly is described.
摘要:
A multiple-unit railway vehicle having three car bodies where the respective neighboring car bodies are each connected in a pivoting manner to one another by means of a single coupling, and each car body sits only on one two-axle truck. In the vicinity of the respective center pivot and possibly also on the trucks, there are actuator elements that are used to influence the articulation angle between the longitudinal axes of the car bodies. To control the articulation angle so that when the train is traveling over a curved segment of track, the car bodies assume a position in relation to one another that corresponds at least to a significant extent to the static rest position of the railway vehicle on the corresponding section of track, the profile and curvature of the track are determined during travel for the segment of the track that currently lies between the first and last trucks, and from that measurement, the set point position is determined, and by means of the actuator system measurements are taken to counteract at least an overshooting or undershooting of the set point value.
摘要:
A device for connecting rail vehicles formed of a plurality of interconnected first and second car parts having a rotary joint with a swiveling crown, includes a rotary-restraint device provided in the joint region between each two car parts. The rotary-restraint device includes two sliding bodies disposed at the periphery of the swiveling crown of the rotary joint. The sliding bodies interact with one another in a frictionally engaged manner and are each fastened to one of the two car parts connected in the rotary joint.
摘要:
Railborne vehicle comprising a gantry bogey, provided between mutually opposite ends of two successive carriages. A bottom plate 1, 2 projects from each of both carriage body ends to form a passage between the carriages. The two bottom plates 1, 2 are interconnected by a joint, preferably a spherical joint 3. In order to transmit the forces resulting from lateral torsional deformations of the carriage superstructure when negotiating curves and arising from uneven tracks, the bottom plates 1, 2 are interconnected by connecting beams 11 which are flexible and torsionally deformable and are connected at their ends by resilient connections to the bottom plates 1, 2.
摘要:
Elastomeric rubber bearing for being connected between two bodies. The bearing employs an element having a series of resilient elements connected together by a series of interposed rigid elements. The thickness of the resilient elements and the width of the cross-section of the resilient and rigid elements vary in relation to the position of the elements.
摘要:
A vehicle truck embodying articulated subtrucks or steering arms having a plurality of wheelsets, with steering arm interconnections establishing coordinated steering motions of the wheelsets, the truck also having elastic restraining devices for stablilizing steering and other motions of conventional rotating axle wheelsets and still further having linkage interrelating relative lateral motions of the truck and body of the vehicle, which add to the stability and steering to trucks having rotating axle wheelsets and which will provide steering for wheelsets equipped with independently rotatable wheels. A method and structure is provided for adapting or "retrofitting" existing equipped truck structures with rotating axle wheelsets in a manner to enhance the steering and stablilizing characteristics. Four-point suspension of car bodies and truck side frames adapted to function as swing hangers in truck equipped with steering is disclosed.
摘要:
A railway car comprises a center sill with a crossbearer, webs and end bolsters extending across thereof. A light side stiffener interconnects the projecting ends of said webs and spans between the bolster and the crossbearer. A shear plate covers a trapezoidal end frame extending from the bolster. The frame includes inclined braces buttressing a pair of cantilivered brackets projecting toward and horizontally overlapping similar brackets of the adjacent car.
摘要:
A railway car train includes five railway car units comprising two end units and three intermediate units. Each end unit is configured for coupler connection to conventional railway cars. The car units are connected to each other by articulated connections wherein the ends of adjacent car units are supported on a single truck. Mating male and female side bearing arm structures are provided on adjacent ends of car units. The end structures of the car units have reinforcement structures to support side bearing arms in either the male or female configuration so that a single design of end structure may be used for either a male or a female configuration. The end structures are provided with offset shear plates having an elevated center portion to allow clearance for large-wheeled trucks while keeping the side structures of the car low enough to provide clearance for unloading the car unit. The reinforcement structure for the side bearing arms serves the additional role of reinforcing the offset shear plate member for beaming loads laterally. The offset shear plate results in elevated side bearing arms on the end structure. A side bearing support structure is provided on the truck which elevates the side bearings to the level of the side bearing arms. The side bearing support structure supports guide means which guide a brake chain extending between the car units along a path which minimizes variations in tension due to relative pivoting of the car units.