Patent ID: 7381020
Filing Date: 2008-06-03
Classification: B60P,B61D

Abstract:
1. A method for loading tube bundles on a railcar having a bed and bulkheads, comprising placing the tube bundles lengthwise on the bed and stacked above the bed to form packs of multiple tube bundles between the bulkheads; affixing resilient sheet material to either side of panels; placing the panels with the resilient sheet material at ends of the packs of multiple tube bundles; closely abutting the packs and the panels at ends of packs on the bed between the bulkheads with little or no longitudinal space thereamong to leave a final longitudinal gap with all of said packs loaded on the railcar between two adjacent ones of said packs or between one of the bulkheads and the most adjacent pack; configuring a spacing block including fixing parallel plates rigidly displaced one from another and affixing resilient sheet material to either side of the spacing block to fill the final longitudinal gap; positioning the spacing block on the bed in the final longitudinal gap.