Patent ID: 8011865

Claim:
A railroad car coil restraint system for a transverse railroad coil car having a trough, said trough including a front wall and a back wall and configured to hold a coil, said railroad car coil restraint system comprising: a plurality of coil restraints, each of the plurality of coil restraints including: (i) a bottom wall configured to be attached to one of the front and back walls of the trough, (ii) a top wall, and (iii) a plurality of spaced-apart independently flexible compression members each attached directly to and extending between the bottom wall and the top wall, said plurality of coil restraints configured to be mounted in the trough such that: (a) when the coil is positioned in the trough, the coil compresses certain of the compression members and does not compress other of the compression members, and (b) at least certain of the non-compressed compression members are configured to prevent sideways shifting of the coil by causing engagement of opposite sides of the coil.