thrall car manufacturing company
bought pullman standard c1984 rail car operations became trinity rail group oct. 2001 on merger with thrall car manufacturing company
merger of michigan car company and peninsular car company. one of the original companies consolidated into american car & foundry .
6. thrall car manufacturing company shall ensure that its employees keep the protector tips clean. tips can be cleaned with soap and water .
5. thrall car manufacturing company shall ensure that the employees keep their hearing protection clean. it can be cleaned with soap and water .
middletown car co. middletown car works middletown car works, inc. middletown car & mfg. co .
from gilbert car manufacturing company (gilbert went out of business and former employee john taylor picked up the pieces. )
chicago heights - - the recent merger of thrall car manufacturing co. and trinity industries railcar manufacturing division won' t help the 600 workers laid off when the company' s local division closed in march because railcar manufacturing won' t be reestablished at the chicago heights plant .
from midwest freight car company, united american car company, and others. to trinity rail group - trinity industries, inc. 2001 .
thrall car manufacturing co. used to design and manufacture rail cars. its products were car, rail - car and bi and tri level auto rack freight cars. the company was founded in 1917 and was headquartered in chicago heights, il .
aka lehigh car wheel & axle works bought the idle frederick & company works .
the combined railcar unit will be run by officers from both trinity and thrall, led by thrall vice chairman michael flannery, who will become ceo of the merged company .
sued american palace car company for infringement of its patent for improvements in sleeping cars .
was sold to the duchossois family, of arlington park race track fame. thrall
from magor car company listed under
car builders
in white - orr' s 1930 classified business directory nyc section. to fruehauf corp. 1964
wabash national acquires roadrailer ® technology from thrall car manufacturing. expanding into new transportation segments, wabash national becomes the exclusive manufacturer of roadrailer, a bimodal technology that allows trailers to easily move from railways to roadways .
huntingdon car works is listed under “car builders” in 1877 edition, poor’s directory of railway officials .
exhibit number description - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. 1 agreement and plan of merger dated as of august 13, 2001 by and among trinity industries, inc. , tcmc acquisition corp. , thrall car manufacturing company and thrall car management company, inc. filed as exhibit 2. 1 to registrant' s 8 - k dated august 15, 2001 and incorporated by reference herein. 99. 1 press release, dated october 26, 2001 .
railcar maker trinity industries inc. (nyse: trn) has an agreement to buy privately held rival thrall car manufacturing co. of chicago heights, ill. for about $ 353 million to expand the scope of its operations, reuters reported .
craig duchossois, chairman of thrall who will serve on the trinity board of directors once the merger is complete, said railcar manufacturing won' t be re - established at the chicago heights plant .
trinity is the market leader in north american rail car production. there are only four other major companies: greenbrier in portland, ore. ; johnstown (pa .) american; thrall car near chicago; and national steel car in hamilton, ontario .
through the marriage of a. j. thrall' s daughter, beverly, to richard duchossois ,
wallace expects the closures to cost the company about $ 52 million. when the company announced it was planning to record that charge in second quarter financial reports, a company spokeswoman said there were no plans to close the greenville plant .
7. the company shall ensure proper initial fitting and supervision over correct use .
thrall' s corporate office, located adjacent to the chicago heights manufacturing plant, will be used
initially
as the corporate office for the combined companies railcar division, duchossois said. he declined to make any other comments on the company' s future until it completes the regulatory approval process .
harris, james, & co. , st. johns, nb and portland, me, is listed under “car builders” in 1877 edition, poor’s directory of railway officials. see harris car company
acquired 1944 by locomotive builder h. k. porter co. apparently continued as a wholly - owned subsidiary. to pressed steel car company 1946
b. the company may discontinue the required use of hearing protectors for that employee .
from hinkley, williams & company built locomotives; no cars. to hinkley locomotive works
and most important, according to president john e. carroll jr. , the company
workers, the company has plants in clinton, ill. and winder and cartersville ,
reopening was treated as if the company was opening a
brand new facility .
middletown car works, schall & king, proprietors, is listed under “car builders” in 1877 edition, poor’s directory of railway officials. became a wholly - owned subsidiary of standard steel car company 1910 but continued operation under its own name. listed under
car builders
in white - orr' s 1930 classified business directory nyc section. name changed 1931 to pullman standard car export corporation .
abstract: an articulated railroad car for carrying container or trailer loads providing for improved weight distribution among all the trucks, comprising a forward end car unit, a rearward end car unit, a plurality of interior car units substantially linearly and adjacently disposed between the forward and rearward car units. between each adjacent pair of car units, the car has a shared truck having axles for supporting one end of one car unit and one end of the other car unit. a central shared truck is centrally located along the length of the railroad car. articulated connectors on the shared trucks join the interior car units to one another and to the end car units, and a hitch for a kingpin on each of the car units is placed over the truck associated with the car unit which is farther from the central truck, to facilitate relatively even load distribution among all the trucks .
ralph schorr spent his first 12 years of his railroad career as project engineer and manager of engineering in the automotive products group for thrall car manufacturing company. he participated in the development of the several new multi - level freight car developments for shipping finished automobiles, vans, and trucks by rail. ralph led the engineering department which supported the continuous production of multi - level autoracks on multiple production lines at different plant locations for eight (8) years .
morse, c. d. , car mfg. co. (c. d. morse car mfg. co. )
almost 10, 000 in one year, the company' s billings are obviously considerable .
wabash national produces duraplate ® storage containers. leveraging duraplate technology in industries beyond transportation, wabash national expands into portable storage container manufacturing .
however, thrall was not interested in the passenger coach business which ckd tried to develop at the plant, and this was sold back to ckd as a newly - formed company, ckd vagonka sro. thrall has also acquired rail project of poprad in slovakia, and announced on march 9 that it planned to establish a european headquarters in western europe .
a high volume railway gondola car particularly suited for high speed rail operations having a bracing structure extending the length of the car including a plurality of serially interconnected v - shaped trusses having laterally longitudinally downwardly convergent bracing members coupling the car walls to the underframe along the centerline of the car .
thrall car has been a fixture in the south suburbs since 1917 when it was founded by a. j. thrall. it operated from a different location until the late 1960s when the current plant was built on about 60 acres at 2521 state st. , a few blocks to the east. the company remains family owned, but changed families in the 1970s when it was sold to the duchossois family, of arlington park race track notoriety .
from hinkley & williams locomotive works hinkley and williams both deceased. to hinkley locomotive company built no cars .
formerly seath & hager, incorporated 1872. terre haute car & mfg. co. is listed under “car builders” in the 1877 edition of poor’s directory of railway officials. one of the original companies consolidated into american car & foundry
before the mid - august. merger agreement with dallas - based trinity, craig duchossois chairman of thrall said thursday that the two companies did a cost analysis of each of their railcar manufacturing plants to determine which are the most cost - efficient and chicago heights didn' t make the cut .
railroad supply house for which diamond jim brady worked. not a car builder .
the fortunes of thrall car, which is run as a separate company from duchossois industries, have shifted in its 84 - year history, following the ebb and flow of the nation' s economy. the recent downturn, which dropped railcar orders by 70 percent from the second quarter of 2000, apparently sealed the fate of the local plant .
with reference to fig. 1, the railroad car 10 has an end closure 12, at each end of the car, which is adapted to seal off the car when it is loaded with automobiles or trucks to prevent vandalism and pilferage .
the dallas - based company said that in addition to greenville, its rail car and parts plants in mount orab, ohio, and asheville, n. c. , will close next month .
fig. 2 is a plan view of the railway car of fig. 1 ;
from perley a. thomas car works. quit car building in 1936, went to specializing in bodies for school buses. still going strong as thomas built buses, inc .
assignment of assignors interest. ; assignor: m. w. kellogg company, the; reel / frame: 004370 / 0168
unissued stock certificate puts capital at $ 1 million. if you have any knowledge of this company, please share it with us .
thrall, which designs and manufactures a broad line of freight railcars and distributes supply parts, operates a factory in cartersville and owns an idled plant in winder. it employs about 600 at the cartersville facility, company spokesperson don green told atlanta business chronicle. both factories will be part of the sale to trinity .
during rail movement of a high volume railway gondola car, uneven track, truck hunting and shifting cargo bulk can cause severe end - to - end torsional deflection and bulging of the car walls as well as warping or sagging of the center portions of the car. because of the oscillatory character and structural interdependence of these types of car flexure, one tends to exaggerate or accentuate the destructive character of the other, thus promoting premature fatique and inhibiting the high speed roadability of the car .
abstract: an articulated railroad car, which includes an articulated connector, rail truck and car body units, has at least one standard short - travel railroad car side bearing which is designed to permit down travel of the car body unit of at least 5 / 8 inch. in a preferred embodiment, one rail truck portion includes a long - travel railroad car side bearing. the long - travel side bearing includes a top cap member and a bottom member with a resilient member interposed therebetween. the long - travel side bearing permits roll axis movement of one car body unit relative to another car body unit to reduce forces on the rail truck which would tend to prevent its successful negotiation of curves .
listed under
car builders
in white - orr' s 1930 classified business directory nyc section .
turl’s iron works is listed under “car builders” in the 1877 edition of poor’s directory of railway officials .
from the above, it can be seen that the braces 23 and 24 cooperate with the car wall, center sill and floor structure and form a plurality of triangular trusses which essentially eliminate destructive parallelogram - like flexure and bulging of the car walls as well as accentuated fatique and vibration of the car structure .
the plant' s future won' t be decided until the merger receives regulatory approval, duchossois said. however, all of the plant' s manufacturing equipment has been removed, according to duchossois .
tredegar iron co. is listed under “car builders” in the 1877 edition of poor’s directory of railway officials .
to american car & foundry motors co. (an affiliate of acf that did not build rail cars )
abstract: railroad car for transporting transversely oriented cylindrical objects. the cargo bed of the car projects downwardly through the draft sills, interrupting the draft sills. the car has one or more troughs defined by pairs of facing cylindrical object support members. the support members at the front and rear of the car also transmit loads from the draft sills downwardly to lower longitudinal members which bridge between the respective draft sills. also, a telescoping cover for a railroad car which covers the entire cargo bed during transport, and uncovers the entire cargo area at once without removing the covers from the car. thus the entire car can be loaded or unloaded without shifting the covers. the front sections and rear sections of the cover telescope independently to the front and rear of the car, thus allowing the entire cover to be positioned outboard of the cargo bed when open while remaining on track means associated with the car. removable one - piece and two - piece covers are also disclosed .
in a related move, the czech government has approved the sale of ckd vagonka studénka (formerly msv) to thrall europa. this was agreed on march 8, and announced in praha on the following day. thrall plans to concentrate on wagon manufacture, producing 2000 vehicles in 2001 and rising to twice that by 2003. this would secure jobs for around 1650 of the remaining 2300 staff at studénka .
it’s very sad to see greenville go down, ’’ mcintire said .
it’s another company that had to leave for one reason or another. ’’
railroad cars are widely used in the united states and other countries to transport vehicles such as automobiles and trucks from manufacturing plants to distribution centers. such railroad cars are referred to in the trade as auto rack cars .
abstract: an aluminum hopper car having a center sill hood which uses aluminum collar castings to connect cross ridge hoods which intersect a center sill hood, and to connect the center sill hood with intersecting sloped car end walls .
this most likely means the pittsburgh & mckeesport car & locomotive works, which went out of business in 1878 .
began as boston iron company. built two locomotives, no known cars. their “yankee, ” built 1834, was the 1st locomotive built in new england .
“william holman had been the foreman and a partner in the hammond company. his production was similar to his ex - employer' s, a mix of horse, cable, and electric cars, with an occasional railroad freight or passenger car. holman tried to make the transition from wood to steel cars in 1912 with an order for muni' s first streetcars. he went bankrupt after only twenty of the forty - three cars under the contract had been built, and the order was completed by another company. ” under control of seattle car & foundry by 1909
various types of hearing protection are provided by thrall car; furthermore, the only types of hearing protection allowed are the sound bands and ear muffs (the approved hearing protection is listed below). no other form of hearing protection is acceptable. proper use of these hearing protection devices includes, but is not limited to, the following .
the invention provides a plurality of laterally longitudinally downwardly convergent bracing members which couple the upper portions of the side walls and the cover caps to the car floor and underframe along the centerline of the car. by this means, the bracing system arrests torsional end - to - end twisting of the car body; and, since the braces resist bulging deflection of the side walls, the vertical alignment and thus the beam strength of the walls is assured, thereby substantially reducing fatiguing vertical deflection or sagging - like flexure of the center portions of the car as well as reducing the magnitude of car body vibration .
morris, w. , & bro. is listed under “car builders” in 1887 edition, poor’s directory of railway officials .
white, john h. “railroad car builders of the united states. ” railroad history 138 (1978): 5–29 .
the object of the present invention is to provide a high volume railway gondola car particularly suited to high speed rail operations .
incorporated in south dakota. allegedly involved in fraudulent transactions relative to car repairs for the ic rr. to illinois central railroad .
rumors circulated locally for more than a year that trinity intended to close the greenville plant and move operations to mexico. the company continually denied it had any plans to close here .
abstract: a railroad car for transporting horizontal shipping containers includes (1) a vertical transition box from the car center sill to the end wall of a well portion capable of receiving one or more shipping containers, (2) car body bottom side sills in the form of an inserted t - member, (3) shear plates at the bottom ends of the well portion, (4) a longitudinal plate in the car body well portion bottom joined to a shear plate at each end, and (5) reinforcement of the car body central portion so that it can transport two end - to - end abutting containers in the well .
these business decisions were based on a number of factors, one of which includes our ongoing program to consolidate and reposition production into trinity’s lower cost manufacturing facilities, ’’ said timothy r. wallace, chairman, president and chief executive officer of trinity .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lynn martin, secretary of labor ,) united states department of labor ,) ) complainant) oshrc docket) v .) no. 90 - 1851 thrall car manufacturing ,) ) respondent) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
1. if a standard threshold shift has occurred, the employee may be retested in thirty (30) days and the company may consider results of the retest as the annual audiogram .
locomotive builder bought by american locomotive company 1901 but it made no investment in plant and closed 1913. no known cars. (see r & lhs bulletin 26, october 1931. )
trinity’s stock hit a 52 - week low on aug. 17 at $ 18. 1875 a share. the company’s stock closed tuesday at $ 22. 9375, down 81 cents .
vehicles are unloaded from the group of railroad cars in a similar manner, referred to as circus unloading. vehicles are driven forward from one car to the next over bridge plates and ultimately down ramps, at the forward end of the front car, to the ground .
abstract: a railroad car for transporting horizontal shipping containers, the car having a novel stub center sill extending from a coupler to the end wall of a well portion capable of receiving one or more shipping containers, (2) a reinforcement assembly from the coupler to the end sill, (3) a reinforcement of the car body central portion so that it can transport two end - to - end abutting containers in the well and (4) lateral car body side wall tie braces having increased stiffness and which are easily attached by fasteners .
2. the audiologist, otolaryngologist or physician shall review problem audiograms and shall determine whether there is a need for further evaluation. the company will provide the person performing this evaluation the following information :
the car body bracing system of the present invention is adapted for use in a high volume railway gondola car as shown in fig. 1. the car 1 is supported on conventional wheel trucks 2 and has an underframe 3 including transverse car body bolster beams 4, an elongated center sill 5 and a plurality of longitudinally spaced horizontal cross - bearers 6 fixed to the center sill 5 and extending outwardly therefrom to longitudinally extending side sills 7. to accommodate pivotal or rotative movement of the trucks 2 beneath the underframe 3, a conventional center bearing assembly including car body center plate 8 and truck center plate bowl (not shown in the drawings) is interposed between each truck 2 and the underframe 3 .
hazelton iron works is listed under “car builders” in 1877 edition, poor’s directory of railway officials, with proprietorship indicated as john allison & co .
wabash national begins to manufacture frac tanks. as part of the organization’s diversification strategy, wabash national enters into an agreement with sabre manufacturing to produce frac tanks in lafayette, ind. frac tanks are bulk liquid storage containers used by fluid management companies in the energy and environmental services industries .
u. s. patent application ser. no. 625, 606 filed oct. 24, 1975, now u. s. pat. no. 4, 024, 821, discloses a pair of crossed braces for a gondola car. attention is also directed to u. s. pat. nos. 1, 859, 261; 1, 834, 264; 2, 033, 566; 2, 146, 221 and 2, 464, 080 which show a variety of wall braces coupling the side walls of a hopper car to the car floor or underframe. none, however, show a bracing system which essentially eliminates mutually accentuating end - to - end twisting of the car and sagging and bulging of the center portions of the car .
trinity industries inc. , which until two years ago was mercer county’s largest employer, said tuesday it will close its greenville rail car division in december .
dallas - based trinity said it would pay about $ 165 million in cash and issue 7. 15 million common shares to thrall shareholders in a deal expected to close by the end of the year. the new shares would be in addition to the 37 million trinity shares currently outstanding .
a railroad car for transporting vehicles such as automobiles and trucks, comprising a floor and two side walls defining an interior space and terminating in an opening at each end; at least one elevated deck spaced above the floor and extending the length of the railroad car and terminating in an end at each of the openings; an end enclosure at each end of the car adapted to be displaced between a closed position overlying the end opening and an opened position which provides access to the entire end of the car; an elongated closure support member at each end of the car disposed within the car interior in a horizontal plane and joined to the end of the deck with the deck elevation being at least as high as that of the closure support; and bridge plate supports, for a pair of bridge plates, located at the front of the closure support member such that bridge plates removably attached thereto are at essentially the same level as the deck .
alstom had earlier pulled out of the bidding because of the czech company' s growing debts, now estimated at kc8·5bn. the siemens deal is dependent upon an agreement for the czech government to write off much of this debt .
she said the greenville operation would be moved to other trinity plants in the united states, not mexico. she didn’t know all of the locations but said the company’s new refrigerated boxcar plant in oklahoma city would be one location .
according to the invention, a railroad car for transporting vehicles such as automobiles and trucks is provided comprising a floor and two side walls defining an interior space and terminating in an opening at each end; at least one elevated deck spaced above the floor and extending the length of the railroad car and terminating in an end at each of said openings; an end enclosure at each end of the car adapted to be displaced between a closed position overlying the end opening and an opened position which provides access to the entire end of the car; an elongated closure support member at each end of the car disposed within the car interior in a horizontal plane and joined to the end of the deck with the deck elevation being at least as high as that of the closure support; and bridge plate supports, for a pair of bridge plates, located at the front of the closure support member such that bridge plates removably attached thereto are at essentially the same level as the deck .
abstract: a railroad car for carrying containers comprising a car body supported by rail trucks adapted for movement over a railroad; the car body having opposing side walls and an end wall near each end connected to the side walls with said side walls and end walls defining a well in which a container can be received; supports for the bottom of a container, when in the well, comprising a plurality of metal castings joined to each side wall; and each casting having a substantially vertical leg joined at the bottom of a side wall and an arm extending substantially horizontally inwardly toward the center of the car on which a container bottom can be supported .
car end closure 12 comprises a pair of door assemblies 30, 32 which are essentially mirror images of each other. door assembly 30 is shown in the closed position while door assembly 32 is shown in the open or stowed position. when in the stowed position, each door assembly is positioned entirely within the car along a car side wall 22. each door assembly 30, 32 includes panels 36 which are essentially identical. the panels 36 can be made of metal or reinforced polymeric material .
i would say (the chance is) virtually nil, ’’ mcintire said .
all of the other rail - car manufacturers have newer efficient plants. ’’
3. the employee shall be referred for a clinical audiological evaluation or an otological examination as appropriate; if additional testing is necessary or if the company suspects a medical pathology of the ear is caused or aggravated by the wearing of hearing protection .
we have seen a stock certificate for this company, which appears to have been a streetcar builder, but it was unissued. did it actually exist? was it a scam like so many turn - of - the - century arizona gold mines ?
abstract: a railroad gondola car having improved side sills, internal horizontal tension braces and diagonal braces with cast metal connectors at the ends of the braces and doubler plates on the side wall post flanges for reinforcement purposes where posts are connected to the ends of the body bolsters and where the braces are connected to the car side walls opposite a side wall post .
transcraft ® corp. acquires certain assets of benson international ®. benson aluminum platform trailers enhance transcraft’s product portfolio to include premium, lighter - weight trailers to complement steel and combo flatbed offerings. in addition, flatbed manufacturing is now consolidated to a state - of - the - art, 180, 000 - square - foot facility in cadiz, ky .
wabash national begins production of refrigerated van trailers at its new south plant location. wabash national installs a state - of - the - art manufacturing line dedicated to refrigerated - van production. utilizing a proprietary process, wabash national injects foam insulation into the sidewalls and roof in a single step prior to assembly, which vastly improves both thermal efficiency and trailer durability .
early tank car builder, built iron boiler tank cars for star tank line and empire line. in 1956 built aluminum tank cars to carry acid for utlx. division of struthers wells corporation 1928 - 1963 .
abstract: a railroad car, for carrying shipping containers, having a car body with opposing side walls and an end wall near each end defining a well in which a container can be received; support for a container, when in the well, comprising a plurality of spaced metal castings joined to each side wall and spaced inwardly from the well end walls; and each casting being substantially l - shaped and having a substantially vertical leg joined at the bottom of a side wall and the casting having an arm extending laterally substantially horizontally inwardly toward the center of the car to aid in supporting a container in the well .
a new york corporation, assignee of dump car patent reissued patent 12, 794 by carl p. astrom of orange, nj. [ original no. was 792, 306, issued 13 june 1905. ]
3. a railroad car according to claim 2 in which the bridge plate support includes a portion which curves over the top of the closure support member and extends into contact with the deck and is joined thereto .
i would say the greenville plant many years ago had a wonderful reputation, ’’ mcintire said .
it was known throughout the country as being one of the finest car builders in the united states. ’’
d / b / a of vancleve, mckean, dripps & co. advertised freight cars as well as locomotives, stationary engines, boilers, mill gearing, machines and castings. { 7 } to trenton car works
abstract: a rail car having an end closure provided by a pair of sliding doors. each side wall of the rail car has a main side wall portion which terminates adjacent one end of the rail car, and an upright ladder panel spaced from the main side wall portion to provide a vertical slot. the doors are guided for movement from a closed position across the end of the rail car to an open position in which the doors project through the slots. an upper ladder brace assembly mounted on the main side wall portion of each side wall is provided to support the upper end of the ladder panel. this upper ladder brace assembly has an elongated brace member which is rigidly connected to the upper ladder panel. the brace member is bowed outwardly to be entirely outside the path of the door so as not to interfere with the movement of the door to open position .
network. what is observed less frequently is that chicago made the railroads. starting in the 1850s, the area was home to many manufacturers of railroad, track, and railcars. not only the well - known pullman company, but several other of the area & apos; s leading economic enterprises, made a big
support member 50, in plan view, is u - shaped and the legs 50a of the u are disposed within spaces 60 located between the car side walls 22 and deck vertical support plates 62 extending from the car floor 20 to the deck 130. brackets 64 connect the support legs 50a to the deck 130. the front portion of support member 50 is connected to the end of deck 130 by brackets 66 (figs. 2 and 3) .
the forecast for next year is that deliveries will be between 55, 000 to 60, 000, ’’ mcintire said .
that’s not a bad market. most rail - car builders can live with those numbers. ’’
thus, chicago heights plant is not part of the merger agreement in which trinity will pay approximately $ 165 million in cash and issue 7. 15 million shares of its common stock to the shareholders of thrall. the agreement also calls for trinity to make additional payments, not to exceed $ 45 million over five years, based on a formula related to annual railcar industry production levels. trinity currently has 37 million shares outstanding .
it is customary to load, and for railroads to move, a number of such cars in groups hitched together end - to - end and, after arrival at a distribution center, for the group of cars to be unloaded simultaneously. when a group of cars is loaded simultaneously, they enter at one end and are driven forward as far as possible to a tie down position on one of the cars. this is called circus loading. to make such loading possible the distance between adjoining car ends must be spanned by removable bridge plates at the car floor level and at each deck level. the bridge plates support the vehicle wheels as the vehicles roll from one railroad car to the next .
to arrest and limit deliterious end and side wall flexure, the invention provides a car bracing system including a plurality of laterally longitudinally downwardly convergent bracing members which couple the corner caps 11 and upper portions 13 of the side walls 9 to the car floor 12 and center sill 5 along the centerline of the car. specifically, rigid elongated end braces or members 14 and 15 are provided at each end of the car to arrest relative movement between the corner caps 11 and the minimum flexure points of the car body located immediately above the center bearing assemblies. as shown in figs. 3 and 5, the upper end sections 16 and 17 of the end braces 14 and 15 are welded or otherwise appropriately secured to cap attachment flanges 18 depending from the caps 11, and the lower end sections 20 and 21 of the end braces 14 and 15 are similarly coupled to the floor 12, bolster 4 and center sill 5 by the coupling bracket 22 upstanding therefrom. to arrest bulging and thus sagging and to further resist end - to - end twisting of the car body, intermediate braces 23 and 24 are provided. the upper ends or sections of the braces 23 and 24 are coupled to the side walls by wall attachment brackets 25 such as illustrated in fig. 4 and the lower ends or sections of the braces 23 and 24 are secured to the floor 12 and center sill 5 by upstanding coupling brackets 26 by welding or other appropriate means .
air dump cars. lost suit 1894 by united states car co. , probably for patent infringement. william a. thacher held many patents on dump cars including 489, 243; 496, 672; 508, 998; and 577, 565 .
he said the relatively high labor costs in the u. s. hurt american rail car plants. the total labor cost for a greenville worker is about $ 20 an hour compared to $ 20 a day at a comparable mexican plant, he said .
but another factor that damaged greenville was a sharp drop in orders. last year, 76, 000 cars were delivered in north america by the rail car industry, a feverish pace in recent years, compared to an estimated 50, 000 this year .
stoller et al u. s. pat. no. 4, 437, 410 discloses an auto rack railroad car with a closure at each end to prevent vandalism and thievery. each closure comprises two door assemblies which move horizontally to open and close the car end. the door assemblies are movably supported by a horizontal support member mounted on the front end or edge of the uppermost of two elevated decks. mounted on the top of both decks, adjacent the front end, is a bridge plate attaching means which constitutes a ridge over which vehicles must be driven in loading and unloading the cars. because there is very little clearance between the vehicle roof tops and the railroad car roof top or a deck, the ridge causes vehicles to bump and spring higher. this causes the vehicle roofs to hit the railroad car roof or deck and damage the automobile with significant economic loss. there is thus a need for alternative structural arrangements which permit removable attachment of bridge plates to railroad cars with elimination of the present described bump - inducing ridges .
wabash national corp. creates wabash wood products. to accommodate the growing company’s trailer flooring needs, and to better streamline operations through vertical integration, wabash national corp. acquires cloud corp. and cloud oak flooring co. , inc. , manufacturers of laminated hardwood floors for the truck body and trailer industries. based in harrison, ark. , the business is renamed wabash wood products .
it is to be understood that the ends of deck 130 have two pair of bridge plate support stub tubes 100 which are so positioned to support a pair of bridge plates 120 spaced apart so as to be centered with respect to the average tread width of vehicles transported by the railroad car .
over the years trinity has made an effort to move rail car production to mexico, said bob mcintire, managing director of rail strategy group, a global railroad consulting firm in geneva, switzerland. a hermitage resident, mcintire also is president of his own railroad consulting firm, mcintire group .
former president of the monon corp. , a trailer manufacturer in monon, ind. , donald j. “jerry” ehrlich, saw an opportunity to start a business 30 miles down the road in lafayette, ind. he took two managers with him from monon corp. to start wabash national. fourteen other key employees soon followed. in less than three years, wabash national had become a $ 100 million company .
advertisement by seth adams, assignee, to sell 3 - 1st class passenger cars, 9 double platform freight cars and 2 single box cars and “the buildings erected and recently occupied by g. turner as a car manufactory... together with all the stock and tools... ” { 5 }
abstract: center beam railroad car having a top chord, a parallel center sill below the top chord, columns joining the top chord and center sill, and diagonal tension members connecting the upper joint between one column and the top chord to the lower joint between another column and the center sill. in one embodiment, the tension member is pivotally secured at each end to the respective upper and lower joints, preventing fatigue failure of the tension member where it is secured to the joints. in another embodiment, at least one end of the tension member is secured to a joint between one end of a column and the center sill or top chord only after the joints are defined by assembling and joining the top chord, center sill, and columns. this method allows the tension members to be installed and to function substantially without tension in the unloaded, unused car and to accept tension loads when the car is loaded and operated .
center sill 14 extends the length of the car body and supports lateral spaced apart floor cross bearers 16 to which side sills 18 are connected. floor 20 is mounted on the top of the center sill, side sills and floor cross bearers. side walls 22 extend up from side sills 18 and support roof 24 .
the lower portion of each door assembly is slidably guided by members 80 attached to the lower inner sides of panels 36. each member 80 has a vertical groove 82 in its lower end which straddles a guide rail 84 mounted on car floor 20. guide rail 84 follows a horizontal path parallel to the path of support member 50 .
abstract: a railroad hopper car having bottom discharge doors, an elongated beam assembly along the bottom of the car, door operating levers to open and close the doors connected to the beam assembly and doors, and lost motion timing connections in the beam assembly which permits displacement of beam sections to open and close pairs or sets of doors in a sequential but substantially simultaneous and automatic order so ast to permit reduction of air pressure required to open the doors, or permit use of smaller diameter air cylinder, a pneumatic drive to move the beam in opposite directions to open and close the doors, and a secondary lock to maintain the beam stationary unless pneumatic pressure intentionally operates the pneumatic drive, with the lock being positioned to be readily seen when locked and safely operated if necessary from the wayside .
biography: ralph schorr is senior product development engineer for amsted rail® in granite city, il. amsted’s product engineering department is responsible for developing truck suspension systems for the heavy haul freight car / wagon markets domestically and internationally. ralph has performed dynamic simulations utilizing the vampire® software for wagon / bogie design applications in china, ukraine, russia, brazil, india and australia over the last eleven (11) years .
begun 1848 by john mellert as stove foundry. machine shop added and became addison & mellert, then millwork. became mellert & kinsey 1863. shortly after increased facilities to build passenger, freight and coal cars. machinery for rolling mills and other heavy works. became mellerts [ plural ] & kinsey 1864, car works abandoned, premises converted to boiler works, two years later to pipe foundry. { 3 } built few cars if any at all .
each door assembly 30, 32 is suspended vertically by means of a support member or track 50 comprising an elongated track element disposed horizontally along the front edge or end of elevated deck 130. deck 130 is fabricated from corrugated metal sheets 132. the corrugations are positioned to run lateral to the railroad car. a lateral plate 134 is placed on the top of the corrugated sheets 132 at the end of the deck. a pair of tie down channels 138 are used to secure vehicles in place .
abstract: a span bolster, for carrying a heavy load of a railroad car body and distributing the load to two four wheel two axle railroad bogies or trucks, is fabricated from steel plate and has top and bottom cover plates, top and bottom reinforcement doubler plates, longitudinal spaced apart webs separating the cover plates, body bolsters at each end and a central truck bolster, all formed of metal plate joined together by welding with all critical welds being full penetration welds, and with the span bolster being stress relieved after fabrication .
3. all other violations: a. respondent agrees to abate item 109h of citation no. 2 by installing a local exhaust ventilation system when employees weld inside enclosed hopper cars. such system shall be substantially similar to the cincinnati fumemaster, model 1000 s identified in appendix f and shall consist of flexible tubing introduced into the interior of the enclosed railcar and connected to an exhaust fan to convey the air inside the car to the outside. the parties agree that implementation of the above will constitute abatement of citation no. 2, item 109h .
abstract: a gondola railway car includes a pair of draft sills and a pair of end panels extending downwardly and terminating in a flat edge portion. the flat edge portion of the end panel is connected to a shear plate by a welded connection. a shed plate is included between the side panel and the shear plate. a support bracket is included between the tub and the draft sill. gussets are attached between the side panels and the shear plate. a top corner cap is connected to the side top chord by a welded connection and to an end top chord by a bolted connection .
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next month is due to see the formal takeover of czech rolling stock supplier ckd dopravní systémy by siemens ag, with the implementation of a strategic plan announced by the german group last september. this led to the signing of a letter of intent last december under which siemens will buy 61% of the ailing firm. controlled since may 1999 by konsolidacní banka, ckd ds was officially declared bankrupt on january 29 .
kob approved a credit on february 7 to keep the production lines rolling; 10 class d12e diesel locos for vietnam are now expected to be delivered later this year, together with m1 series trainsets for the praha metro and spare parts for rt8d5m trams in manila .
according to the czech ministry of trade & industry, the debt write - off will see ckd ds split into two businesses. kob will retain ownership of the residual assets through ckd real estate, and siemens will acquire ckd nova, possibly in partnership with major customers such as praha transport authority. ckd nova will complete all the current orders, and then concentrate on metro and suburban emus and light rail vehicles, with the work force halved to around 800. some work may be brought in from other siemens plants .
another 300 staff may transfer to skoda plzen subsidiary skoda dopravní technika, which has offered to work with siemens on the praha metro order .
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machine shop opened by william e. tanner dba metropolitan iron works. joined by alexander delaney of tredegar iron works and dba tanner & delaney. produced tramway engines, no cars known. reorganized as richmond locomotive & machine works
built welded steel high - pressure tanks for lpg for utlx 1948 - 1957. division of struthers wells corporation 1928 - 1963
looking for information. did they build any of their own cars? if, not, then who did? if you have information, please share it with us. to ttx 1 july 1991
bessemer, al greenville, pa ft. worth, tx mt. orab, oh
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thrall car manufacturing company was a manufacturer of railroad freight cars in chicago heights , illinois from 1917 to 2001 . the company was sold to trinity industries in 2001 . 
thrall car manufacturing company was a manufacturer of railroad freight cars in chicago heights, illinois from 1917 to 2001. the company was sold to trinity industries in 2001.
thrall car manufacturing company was a manufacturer of railroad freight cars in chicago heights, illinois from 1917 to 2001. the company was sold to trinity industries in 2001.