Abstract: A method for maximizing the loading capacity of a wagon or wagon train when loading with pourable material from a silo. The method utilizes a computer which determines the type of wagon to be loaded on the basis of values obtained with sensors.

Abstract: An arrangement for driving a trackbound traction unit and being self-adjusting in both the forward and rearward directions. The arrangement includes at least two drive wheels with associated transmissions, two carrier arms whose longitudinal axes substantially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the traction unit and on one end of which the drive wheels are journalled, a holder in which the other end of the carrier arms is pivotally journalled by means of spherical bearings, a hydraulic piston-cylinder device which is connected to the first-mentioned ends of the carrier arms, and a rail which is fixedly mounted to the chassis in the center of the track. The carrier arms are substantially perpendicular to the geometric axes of the drive wheels and are intended to swing the drive wheels into pressured abutment with the center rail through the medium of the hydraulic piston-cylinder device.

Abstract: Apparatus for bridging a space between adjacent wagons having laterally tiltable bodies and arranged end to end in a train includes a flap pivoted at the rear end of a wagon body for free pivotal movement about a horizontal transverse axis, the flap having a width corresponding to that of the respective wagon body and a length sufficient to overlap the following wagon body.

Abstract: A bottom dump arrangement attached to a body which provides a goods-holding space, the body resting on an undercarriage and including at least one pair of adjacent doors having remote edges, the doors being pivotally attached at their remote edges for swinging movement in a curved path transverse to the body and perpendicular to the remote edges, the free edges of the doors facing toward each other abutting each other in closed position of the doors, the arrangement also including guide paths that cooperate with the body to lift the body relative to the undercarriage, a linkage assembly pivotally connected between the doors and the body for permitting the body, when lifted by the guide paths, to become inclined to the pivotal axes for the doors in a vertical plane, which is parallel to the pivotal axes of the doors and perpendicular to the plane that the undercarriage rests on.