Abstract: Various embodiments provided a railroad car brake beam wear guide for mounting in a brake beam guide bracket of a railroad car truck side frame and including a spacer that partially defines a slide-way for a brake beam lug of a brake beam and that limits lateral movement of the brake beam. In various embodiments, the wear guide can be employed for other uses besides for railroad cars.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a stabilizing transom. Various embodiments provide a vehicle truck such as a railroad car truck including a first side frame, a second side frame, a bolster, and a stabilizing transom connected to the first side frame and the second side frame and configured to reduce, inhibit, minimize, and/or prevent truck hunting and warping.

Abstract: A railroad car coupler assembly knuckle pin including an elongated cylindrical tubular body having an upper end portion, a lower end portion spaced apart from the upper end portion, and an intermediate portion between and connecting the upper end portion and the lower end portion, the body including an elongated cylindrical wall that defines an elongated cylindrical central opening and an elongated slot that extends the length of the wall, a first ring integrally connected to and outwardly extending from a first area of the upper end portion of the body, a second ring integrally connected to and outwardly extending from a second area of the upper end portion of the body, the second ring spaced apart from the first ring along the body, the first ring defining a plurality of first stress relief slots, and the second ring defining a plurality of second stress relief slots.

Abstract: An auto-rack bridge plate locking assembly including a support bracket, a guide tube, a slidable locking pin partially positioned in the guide tube, a handle assembly removably attachable to the locking pin, a fixed pivot pin partially positioned in the guide tube, and a spring positioned in the guide tube between the pivot pin and the locking pin. An auto-rack railroad car bridge plate may include a plate configured to extend from one auto-rack railroad car to an adjacent auto-rack railroad car with the locking assembly connected to the plate and configured to pivotally attach the plate to one of the auto-rack rail road cars.

Abstract: Various embodiments provided a railroad car brake beam wear guide for mounting in a brake beam guide bracket of a railroad car truck side frame and including a spacer that partially defines a slide-way for a brake beam lug of a brake beam and that limits lateral movement of the brake beam. In various embodiments, the wear guide can be employed for other uses besides for railroad cars.

Abstract: A railroad car articulated split friction wedge assembly including first and second articulated friction wedges, wherein the first friction wedge includes a first body, a first decoupling insert, a first pivot member pivotally moveable with respect to the first body and the first decoupling insert, and a first wear pad removably attached to the first pivot member, and wherein the second friction wedge includes a second body, a second decoupling insert, a second pivot member pivotally moveable with respect to the second body and the second decoupling insert, and independently of the first body and the first pivot member, and a second wear pad removably attached to the second pivot member, which in combination provide required damping, provide high warp restraint, reduce binding, and enable lateral decoupling.

Abstract: A locking assembly includes an elongated guide tube configured to be coupled to a first component. The guide tube is elongated in a first direction from a first end to an opposite second end. The locking assembly also includes a first pin partially disposed in the guide tube and protruding from the first end of the guide tube. The first pin can be received in a first receiver. The locking assembly also includes a second pin partially disposed in the guide tube and protruding from the second end of the guide tube. This second pin can be received in a second receiver. The locking assembly also includes a handle removably coupled with the second pin. The handle can be grasped and moved to slide the second pin relative to the guide tube and the first pin along the first direction.

Abstract: A railroad car truck including a first side frame, a second side frame, a bolster, and a first plurality of warp restraints, each first warp restraint configured to prevent warping of the bolster relative to the side frames. Various embodiments include opposing bearings of each warp restraint that engage each other.

Abstract: A railroad car truck including a first side frame, a second side frame, a bolster, and a plurality of warp restraints that are configured to prevent warping of the bolster relative to the side frames.

Abstract: A railroad car truck bolster including a first end, a first diagonal member, a transitional concave first turn of spring seat, a center rib assembly, first and second diagonal ribs, and a bottom member. The center rib assembly includes first, second, and third center ribs and a U transition. The bottom member includes thickened walls that define brake rod holes. The first diagonal member is connected to the first end via the concave first turn of spring seat. The center rib assembly is connected to the first end, the straight first diagonal member, and the first turn of spring seat. The first, second, and third center ribs are connected to one another via the U transition. The first and second diagonal ribs are connected to the first turn of spring seat. The third center rib is between the first and second diagonal ribs. The bottom member is connected to the first diagonal member.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a vehicle draft key wear protector including a first arm, a second arm spaced-apart from the first arm, a first connector integrally connected to the first arm and integrally connected to the second arm, and a second connector integrally and detachably connected to the first arm and integrally and detachably connected to the second arm, wherein the railroad car draft key wear protector is configured to be positioned on an uninstalled draft key, and is configured to be positioned on an installed draft key in situ.

Abstract: A vehicle spring type brake shoe key for connecting a brake shoe to a brake head, wherein the brake shoe key includes a body or shank and a head integrally formed with the body or shank, and wherein the key has a reduced mass head, an alternative configuration head, a surface treatment, or two or more of these modifications that reduces the likelihood that the head will weaken and/or break off the body of the brake shoe key,

Abstract: In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides an door locking assembly splice including an extension tube having opposing top and bottom ends, a lock rod connection assembly connected to the top end of the extension tube, a handle connection assembly connected to the extension tube between the top end and the bottom end of the extension tube, and a cam assembly connected to the bottom end of the extension tube, that enables a damaged door rod locking assembly to be easily, quickly, and efficiently repaired.

Abstract: A railroad car bearing adapter assembly configured to be employed in combination with a high warp restraint truck (with or without an auxiliary or original warp restraint system), and including a low profile thickness and relatively longitudinally narrow roller bearing adapter, a low profile adapter shear pad with a shear stiffness in a range of 85,000 lbs/in to 125,000 lbs/inch, and side wear pad that in combination total clearance in a range of 0.09 inches to 0.36 inches between the side frame thrust lugs and the adapter with the side wear pads. This overall combination reduces wheel wear and damage, reduces fuel consumption, reduces the need for railroad track repair, improves high speed stability and curving performance for both empty cars and loaded cars, provides more truck stability under a loaded car in shallow curves and while encountering certain perturbations, and provides optimum curving performance that enables the axles to better align with curves of relatively high degrees.

Abstract: A railroad car truck including a first side frame, a second side frame, a bolster, and a first plurality of warp restraints, each first warp restraint configured to reduce, inhibit, or minimize warping of the bolster relative to the side frame, and in one embodiment including a first inner bearing race at a first end of the bolster, a second opposing outer bearing race at the first side frame, and a roller positioned in a channel formed by and between the first and second opposing bearing races, and a second plurality of warp restraints, each second warp restraint including a first inner bearing race at a second end of the bolster, a second opposing outer bearing race at the second side frame, and a roller positioned in a channel formed by and between the first and second opposing bearing races.

Abstract: A vehicle restraint system for an auto-rack railroad car which includes an active chock and an anchor chock configured to co-act to secure a vehicle in the auto-rack railroad car. In various embodiments, each chock has a chock body including a substantially diamond shaped elongated tube which includes four integrally connected elongated walls. In various embodiments, for each chock, various components of that chock extend substantially along longitudinal axis that lie in the same or substantially the same vertical plane as the apex and trough of the substantially diamond shaped elongated tube of the chock body.