Inventors:
Charles M. Bakka - Sparta NJ
Samuel H. Levinson - Glencoe IL
Assignee:
Trailer Rail Partners - Chicago IL
International Classification:
B60P 100
B60P 306
Abstract:
A system for moving receptacles such as highway semi-trailers on railway trains. The system includes a plurality of rail bogies as the sole support of adjacent rear and front ends of the trailers and as the sole connection means between the trailers, to form the trains. The rail bogie has a frame structure supported on spaced apart wheeled axles, defining a pair of end deck surfaces positioned above the wheeled axles and a central drop-deck surface disposed between and below the end deck surfaces. A vertically adjustable fifth wheel assembly is supported above each of the end deck surfaces for receipt of a semi-trailer king pin. A deck plate member is pivotally secured to the drop-deck surface. A pair of transversely spaced, longitudinally extending, internal and external rub-rail members extend upwardly from the drop-deck plate member for receipt of semi-trailer tandems therebetween. The tandems of the trailer are received and supported on the drop-deck plate between the rub-rail members of a first bogie and the king pin of the trailer is received and supported on the fifth wheel assembly of an immediately adjacent bogie.