Rail road freight car with damped suspension

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8770113
APP PUB NO 20100095864A1
SERIAL NO

12538506

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An auto rack rail road freight car is provided for carrying low density, relatively high value, relatively fragile lading. The car has trucks that have multiple dampers in a four corner arrangement in the sideframes. The dampers may include damper wedges having primary and secondary wedge angles. The spring groups in the side frames are relatively soft, giving a low vertical bounce natural frequency. In an articulated embodiment, differentially placed ballast is mounted in a biased arrangement to load the coupler end trucks to encourage a dynamic response similar to the dynamic response of the internal trucks.

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  • NATIONAL STEEL CAR LIMITED

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Forbes, James W Campbellville, CA 117 2199

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