Abstract: Rail car modularized modification programs altering the nature of the center sill in the modified railcar yield a greater variety of car types that can be placed into service. The present invention provides method of modification of a railcar to form a modified railcar comprising the steps of: providing an existing railcar with a center sill design of one of i) a stub sill and ii) a through sill; removing an upper portion of the existing railcar; forming an underframe construction including bolsters configured to be above truck assemblies and coupled to the center sill design, and a center sill design of one of i) a stub sill ii) a through sill, and iii) a fish-belly center sill; forming an upper body of the modified railcar; and attaching the upper body of the modified railcar to the underframe construction.

Abstract: In order to efficiently convey a conveyance target, a conveyance system includes: a carriage configured to be capable of conveying a plurality of conveyance targets; and a carriage controller configured to perform an allocation process of allocating, to the carriage, a conveyance target to be conveyed, the carriage controller performing the allocation process such that, in a case where a region in which the carriage is movable is divided into a plurality of areas, areas of destinations of the plurality of conveyance targets that are to be simultaneously conveyed by the carriage are the same.

Abstract: A box railroad car with one or more door assemblies having doors that are more elastic than known boxcar doors, and that after being engaged in a potentially damaging manner, return or substantially return to their natural or original configurations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an operating characteristic (for example ground clearance or acceleration) of a vehicle (100) resting on a contact surface (200) by means of at least one landing gear (150) comprising means of actuating (160) adapted to vary a behaviour of the landing gear when the latter is in contact with the contact surface, whereby the said method makes the operating characteristic of the vehicle dependent upon a given set-point by generating a command intended for the means of actuating as a function of a difference (?) between the operating characteristic and the set-point. According to the invention, the control system comprises the use of an estimation (Pest) of a load (P) seen by the landing gear to generate a modification of the command so as to minimise a variation in the deviation caused by a variation in the load.

Abstract: An attachment part for a rail vehicle includes an interface and/or a mounting element for an accessory component for a switching operation. The attachment part can be detachably fastened to a rail vehicle structure of the rail vehicle in such a way that occurring forces can be transmitted to the rail vehicle structure. A rail vehicle including the attachment part is also provided.

Abstract: An embed façade attachment system comprises an inner channel and an outer channel. The inner channel is configured to receive one or more fasteners between an upper retaining flange and a lower retaining flange. The outer channel is defined between an upper outward flange and a lower outward flange and configured to receive one or more fasteners. One of the inner channel and the outer channel is coupled to a concrete reinforcement element and another of the inner channel and the outer channel is removably coupled to a façade element by the one or more fasteners. The façade attachment is embedded in concrete with at least the inner channel or the outer channel exposed to a surface of the concrete to allow coupling of the façade element.

Abstract: An End-of-Train device, a system and a method for signaling events through a visibility marker is provided. The method includes identifying an illumination pattern generated by the visibility marker associated with an End-of-Train device on a leading train, wherein the illumination pattern is identified based on output of one or more secondary sensors on the follower train, and wherein the illumination pattern is indicative of an event affecting an operation of the leading train. Based on the identified illumination pattern one or more instructions to be executed are determined. Further, the one or more instructions are executed for signalling events through the visibility marker associated with the follower train.

Abstract: A mounting assembly for a cross-rail of an overhead rail system includes a mounting rail, an attachment bracket, and a spring-loaded pin. The mounting rail is configured to mount to a sidewall and includes a bracket receiving recess. The attachment bracket includes an attachment portion and an extension portion, wherein the attachment portion is shaped to correspond to the bracket receiving recess such that the attachment portion is positionable within the bracket receiving recess. The spring-loaded pin is coupled to the attachment bracket and includes a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the spring-loaded pin is biased to the extended position to lock the cross-rail to the extension portion of the attachment bracket.

Abstract: A control system executes preliminary biasing processing including controlling a guide wheel drive unit to bias a guide wheel in a direction from a first position toward a second position while the guide wheel is at the first position and is in contact with a first-side surface of a branch guide portion from a first side in a width direction before entering a switching area, and allows the guide wheel to pass through the switching area while executing the preliminary biasing processing.

Abstract: A circulating cableway having at least two cableway stations and a plurality of cableway vehicles which can be moved between the cableway stations with a conveyor cable, wherein each cableway vehicle has a cabin for receiving objects, and wherein a control unit is provided for controlling the circulating cableway, also includes a first detection device in at least a first of the at least two cableway stations configured to detect an object provided for loading in a cabin of a cableway vehicle in a loading region of the first cableway station and to determine an object type for the object, and wherein the control unit is configured to operate the circulating cableway in a defined transport operating mode when the object type determined for the object is a specified object type. An associated method of operating a circulating cableway is also disclosed.

Abstract: A coupler buffer device mounting structure for small-fastening-torque pushing under a compact space includes a double-headed stud passing through an installation fabrication hole of a vehicle body structure; a nut screwed on a first end of the double-headed stud; a push nut screwed on a second end of the double-headed stud and provided with a plurality of axial screw holes in a circumferential direction; and a plurality of push screws screwed into the circumferentially provided axial screw holes of the push nut, where the coupler buffer device is clamped and fixed to the vehicle body structure by heads abutting against the coupler buffer device via a hard washer. The coupler buffer device mounting structure achieves the passing of the double-headed stud from a coupler side to a vehicle body side by using the double-headed stud, the nut, the push nut and the plurality of push screws in combination.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a subway vehicle electronic record system based on blockchain technology, which mainly includes business view module, record information maintenance module, statistical analysis module, record information management module, system management module, and blockchain foundation platform. The invention comprehensively makes use of blockchain, database and other technologies to normalize heterogeneous data of subway vehicle record.

Abstract: A wheel housing shell for a vehicle having an underbody that faces a roadway, on which the motor vehicle travels during operation. During operation of the vehicle on a wet roadway, in particular when driving through shallow water, for example when aquaplaning, splash water is displaced from the wheels of the motor vehicle, which forms fountains that in turn generate at least one splash water force. To improve the wheel housing shell for the motor vehicle with respect to driving through shallow water, for example when aquaplaning, the wheel housing shell has a splash water drainage geometry in a rear region in relation to a forward driving direction, which is configured and arranged, such that the splash water in the rear region of the hydropower-optimized wheel housing shell is tangentially discharged downwards in the direction of the roadway by the splash water drainage geometry during operation of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: This positioning configuration design device includes a positioning configuration setting unit that excludes facilities which are likely to be able to be excluded from facilities respectively positioned at a plurality of locations and sets a positioning configuration of the facilities; a feasibility confirmation unit that judges whether predetermined conditions are feasible or not in the set positioning configuration of the facilities; an exclusion candidate list updating unit that registers, in an exclusion candidate list, information of the facilities excluded in the positioning configuration in which the conditions are feasible, a non-excludable list updating unit that registers, in a non-excludable list, information of the facilities excluded in the positioning configuration in which the conditions are not feasible; and a control unit that repeatedly executes confirmation processing including setting of the positioning configuration and judgment of feasibility of the conditions while incrementing the numb

Abstract: A rocker for a current collector of a vehicle includes at least one first contact strip connected to a first lever arrangement which is coupled to a first bearing device, and connected to a second lever arrangement which is coupled to a second bearing device, wherein the first bearing device and the second bearing device are connectable in an articulated manner to a current collector linkage, where a first torsion spring is fixedly connected to a lever of the first lever arrangement and non-rotatably via a displaceable bearing to the first bearing device or is connected non-rotatably via a displaceable bearing to a lever of the first lever arrangement and fixedly to the first bearing device, where the first torsion spring simultaneously forms a torque transmission device and a spring device such that a lightweight, compact and nevertheless robust arrangement for collecting current is thereby obtained.

Abstract: Described herein are examples of methods which include mounting a deflector onto a top surface of a ski or snowboard. A first point of the deflector may be pivotally connected to the ski via a mounting component, and a second point of the deflector is in contact with the top surface of the ski. The method may also include coupling a first fastening component to the first point of the deflector and the mounting component and adjusting the angle of the deflector relative to the top surface of the ski by rotating the deflector to a desired angle. The method may further include locking the deflector at the desired angle using a locking component.

Abstract: A method of railroad track control includes partitioning a physical track block into a plurality of virtual track blocks, the physical track block defined by first and second insulated joints disposed at corresponding first and second ends of a length of railroad track. The presence of an electrical circuit discontinuity in one of the plurality of virtual track blocks; is detected and in response a corresponding virtual track block position code indicating the presence of the discontinuity in the one of the plurality of virtual track blocks is generated.

Abstract: An overhead transport vehicle system includes an upper track, a lower track below the upper track in the vertical direction, and a transport vehicle to travel along the upper track and the lower track. The overhead transport vehicle system includes a placement portion on the upper surface of the lower track and to which an article can be transported from the transport vehicle stopped on the upper track.

Abstract: A system and method for enabling automatic arming between an End-of-Train device and a Head-of-Train device on a train is provided. The system includes at least one sensing unit configured to detect a physical connection status of the End-of-Train device. The End-of-Train device is configured to transmit an arming request to the Head-of-Train device based on the physical connection status, wherein the arming request includes at least one of an identifier and a geospatial location associated with the End-of-Train device. The Head-of-Train device is configured to receive the arming request from the End-of-Train device. The Head-of-Train device is further configured to arm the Head-of-Train device to the End-of-Train device upon verification of the arming request, wherein arming comprises establishing a communication channel between the Head-of-Train device and the End-of-Train device.

Abstract: A rail inspection device is provided. The rail inspection device includes: a drive part configured to drive on a lower rail; side wheels configured to rotate such that the drive part moves in a first direction on the lower rail, wherein the side wheels are provided on two side surfaces of the drive part opposite to each other in a second direction that intersects the first direction; upper wheels provided on an upper surface of the drive part and configured to rotate in contact with a branch guide rail provided above an upper portion of the drive part; a body connected to a lower surface of the drive part in a third direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction; and an inclination sensor provided on the upper surface of the drive part and configured to measure an inclination of the body.