Patent ID: 6095055
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: B61D

Abstract:
A rail transport unit interconnecting first and second spaced apart axle units with one another, the rail transport unit comprising a freight car structure formed by two parallel sidepieces being separated from one another by a bed, a first end of the freight car structure having two sidepieces defining, with the bed, a traverse opening sized to facilitate at least one of loading and unloading of a road-traveling load onto and off from the freight car structure, the first end of said freight car structure having two parallel arm extensions being coupled to an associated composite interface of said first axle unit, and said first end of said freight car structure being separable from the associated composite interface of said first axle unit to facilitate providing free passage for the road-traveling load onto and of from the bed via the transverse opening;wherein a second end of said freight car structure has two converging arm extensions which converge at an apex to merge the two sidepieces with one another.