MULTIPLE UNIT ARTICULATED RAILROAD CAR AND INTER-BODY CONNECTIONS THEREFOR

摘要

A multi-unit articulated rail road cars has inter-body connections that include side bearings for the male and female ends of the car bodies to either side of a shared truck. The properties of those side bearings are different on the male side of the connection from on the female side of the connection. Those inter-body connections may be used in a multi-unit railroad car has an odd number of railcar units joined end to end by articulated connectors supported by railcar trucks. The railroad car has a transverse centerline. The arrangement of articulated connectors about the transverse centerline is symmetrical.