Abstract: A brake beam assembly containing a compression member, a tension member, a strut connected to the tension member and the compression member, and two brake heads with recesses. The ends of the compression member and the tension member are disposed within the recesses of the brake heads together with at least one fastener per recess; and each of the fasteners is substantially perpendicular to the tension and compression members.

Abstract: A brake beam assembly comprised of a compression member with a first end and a second end, a tension member with a third end and a fourth end, a strut connected to the tension member and the compression member, a first brake head, and a second brake head. The ends of the compression and tension members each contain at least two holes in which is disposed a fastener. At least one of the ends of the compression member and the end of said tension member is contiguous with each of the first brake head and the second brake head, and with the exception of the compression member, the tension member, and the fasteners, no other structural member is contiguous with the brake heads.

Abstract: A brake beam assembly containing a compression member, a tension member, a strut connected to the tension member and the compression member, and two brake heads with recesses. The ends of the compression member and the tension member are disposed within the recesses of the brake heads together with two fasteners per recess; each of the fasteners is substantially perpendicular to the tension and compression members; and no other structural elements are present in the recesses.

Abstract: A unit guide wear plate which aligns the movement of a brake beam end guide within the side frame of a railroad car truck so that the brake shoes can provide the maximum amount of force against the wheels when stopping the railroad car.

Abstract: A fabricated steel ladder is provided particularly adapted for use on the sides of railroad cars and the like wherein the ladder rungs are formed with ends turned in 90 degrees in a manner so that cracks are avoided in the steel grains adjacent the inner radius of each turned end. A special indentation is formed on the inside surface of the turned end adjacent to the point of bending--the indentation causing a desired material flow so as to avoid cracking while increasing the material strength. The rung ends are cold headed during assembly with the other components of the ladder structure which avoids the necessity of separate fasteners used in prior art designs, and insures that substantially no radial clearance will be left between the rung ends and the apertures in which they are mounted and furthermore insures that the rung will be firmly affixed to the ladder stiles in an axial sense so as to eliminate looseness and rattle in the resulting structure.

Abstract: A rod repair splice having a pair of trough shaped bodies each with a rod embracing arcuate flange at one end thereof. The bodies are diametrically mounted on the rod to be repaired with the respective arcuate flanges thereof disposed at longitudinally opposite ends of the splice. Each of the bodies is welded along their opposite longitudinal side edges to the peripheral surface of the rod sections. Each axial end portion of the bodies includes three distinct camming surfaces which slope from the inner surface of the body adjacent to the rod to be spliced to the outer surface of the body. The sloping surfaces thereby avoid shoulders which might cause hangup upon axial movement of the repaired rod by camming an axial interference in a radially outward direction out of axial contact with the splice.

Abstract: A rod repair splice having a pair of trough shaped bodies each with a rod embracing arcuate flange at one end thereof. The bodies are diametrically mounted on the rod to be repaired with the respective arcuate flanges thereof disposed at longitudinally opposite ends of the splice. Each of the bodies is welded along their opposite longitudinal side edges to the peripheral surface of the rod sections. Each axial end portion of the bodies includes three distinct camming surfaces which slope from the inner surface of the body adjacent to the rod to be spliced to the outer surface of the body. The sloping surfaces thereby avoid shoulders which might cause hangup upon axial movement of the repaired rod by camming an axial interference in a radially outward direction out of axial contact with the splice.