Patent ID: 7878125
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: B61D,B61F

Abstract:
1. A rail road gondola car, said rail road gondola car having: a lading containment receptacle mounted on a pair of spaced apart rail road car trucks for rolling motion along rail road tracks in a longitudinal direction; first and second side beams defining first and second side walls of said receptacle; a deck defining a floor of said lading containment receptacle; an array of cross-members extending cross-wise underneath said deck between said first and second side walls; said array of cross-members including at least a first cross-member; said first cross-member having a first end and a second end; said first end being adjacent to said first side beam, said first cross-member of said array of cross-members extending laterally inboard of said first end; said first side beam including a predominantly upstanding web running lengthwise along said car; an array of longitudinally spaced upstanding stiffeners mounted to reinforce said first side wall; said array of longitudinally spaced upstanding stiffeners including a first stiffener; said upstanding web of said first side beam extending upwardly of said deck; said first side beam having a first web extension, said first web extension extending predominantly downwardly of said deck, and said first web extension being mounted to said first end of said first cross-member; there being web continuity between said first web extension and said upstanding web; said first web extension having a lower margin downwardly distant from said deck; said first web extension being narrower at said lower margin than nearer to said deck, said first web extension having broadening wings to either side of said first end of said first cross-member.