Abstract: A train collision system helps reduce the severity of impact between a train and a land vehicle or pedestrian. The system uses a flatbed rail car that is coupled to the front of a train. Several deformable barrels, each at least partially filled with an inert material, are attached to the top surface of the rail car, the barrels each decelerating an object that strikes them. A pair of diagonally downwardly disposed arms extend out from the front of the rail car and are used to either deflect the object out of the trains path or to scoop the object onto the rail car wherein the object is decelerated by the barrels. A net member subsystem captures relatively small objects and nets them before the object strikes the barrels.

Abstract: For relieving the impact force of a collision and insuring passenger safety by building an easily destructible structure into a railroad car underframe, two transversally extending cross or end sills 21, 23 are disposed in parallel and longitudinally spaced apart relation at the front end of a railroad car underframe 1 and energy absorbing sills 61 adapted to absorb shock energy by undergoing wall buckling when subjected to a shock load exceeding a predetermined value from the front of the car is disposed between the cross beams.

Abstract: A railway vehicle has, located centrally on the end of a car body 1, a coupling device and at least one shock absorbing device 9, 10, which has a permanently deformable support element. To achieve an effective protection against under-running in an impact the, individual shock absorbing elements 9, 10 are parallel to one another underneath a horizontal plane that contains a coupling device 4.