Abstract: A heavy load railway vehicle or schnabel car in which a load bridge is disposed between a pair of longitudinally spaced rail supported bogies and is supported on the bogies by arms on the ends of the load bridge which extend outwardly over the bogies and engage an outer guide means in the longitudinal center of each bogie and an inner guide means near the inner end of each bogie. Each guide means is laterally movable on the respective bogie and the inner guide means is resiliently acted upon from opposite side to bias the inner guide means toward a predetermined position on the respective bogie.