Abstract: A system includes a platform designed to mechanically support a plurality of personal vehicles. The system also includes a power source coupled to the platform and designed to at least one of store or generate power to propel the platform. The system also includes an actuator coupled to the platform and designed to facilitate transfer of the plurality of personal vehicles from a ground surface to the platform. The system also includes a plurality of transmitters each coupled to the platform and designed to transmit an electrical charge to an energy storage device of one of the plurality of personal vehicles. The system also includes a platform electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the power source and the plurality of transmitters and designed to control the power source to transmit at least some of the power to, the plurality of personal vehicles via the plurality of transmitters.

Abstract: A method comprises removing a first deck of a plurality of decks and a second deck of the plurality of decks from an autorack. The method further comprises removing one or more of a plurality of posts of the autorack and coupling a cross-brace assembly to one or more of the plurality of posts, wherein the cross-brace assembly is coupled to the one or more of the plurality of posts at a location above an existing brace bay of the autorack. The method also comprises coupling the second deck of the plurality of decks to the autorack at a location above or below the cross-brace assembly.

Abstract: A multi-purpose telescoping trailer for transporting a vehicle and providing expandable enclosed interior space is disclosed. The interior space may be expanded into the vehicle space when the vehicle is not present. The trailer includes a frame having at least two wheels, a bed for receiving and transporting a vehicle and a means for securing the trailer to a towing vehicle. The trailer also includes an inner housing and an outer housing that together form an expandable enclosed interior space. The interior space can be expanded by sliding the inner housing generally outside of the outer housing in a telescoping manner when there is no vehicle stored in the vehicle bed.

Abstract: A system and methodology facilitates the handling of oilfield material. The oilfield material is stored in at least one silo which enables use of gravity to feed the oilfield material to a blender or other suitable equipment. Each modular silo is transportable and may be engaged with a support structure via a pivot connection. Once engaged, the silo is pivoted to a raised, upright position on the support structure. The oilfield material is then moved to an interior of the silo, and gravity may be used to feed the oilfield material to a blender or other equipment in a controlled manner.

Abstract: A lateral extension (1), for road and rail vehicles, comprising a multitude of individual shafts (5) assembled so as to pivot freely, at each of their extremities, firstly, with regard to the interior extremity secured to the vehicle, on a longitudinal structure (11) that is fixed in relation to the load-carrying platform and, secondly, as regards the exterior extremity, on an edge and connecting rigid longitudinal member (10). The shafts bear, over a portion of their length, on an adjacent flat support surface (13) that is fixed in relation to the load-carrying platform, and are cantilevered towards the exterior over the remainder of their length. The extension can be moved to a deployed position, so that the supporting surface (14) provides a passageway, and, a retracted position of lesser width, and incorporates a railing. A changeover from one position to the other is accomplished by pivoting in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A train collision attenuator mounted on a leading end of a train for attenuating the force of impact between a moving train and a pedestrian or motor vehicle. The train collision attenuator includes an energy absorbing assembly and a mounting assembly. The energy absorbing assembly includes a leading surface and the energy absorbing assembly is dimensioned and configured for attenuating the force of impact between the moving train and the pedestrian located in the path of the moving train as the pedestrian impacts against the leading surface. The mounting assembly secures the energy absorbing assembly to the leading end of the train. A lifting mechanism for moving the energy absorbing assembly between a deployed position to a retracted position is also provided. A selectively-inflatable, externally-mounted airbag including an upper pedestrian cushioning portion and a lower pedestrian support portion is also provided.

Abstract: A rail vehicle including an end car extended by a cab, wherein said car and said cab have separate structures with adjacent ends that are pivotally mounted on the same bogie, the structure of said cab being supported solely by the bogie while cantilevered therefrom, said cab being connected to control means for controlling the angular positioning of the cab relative to said bogie.

Abstract: A railroad car with adjustable floor and roof sections that allow a user to convert the car from a bi-level to a tri-level car. The overall height of the car can be reduced, which results in reduced costs because the need to stockpile bi-level and tri-level cars for use on routes with different height restrictions is eliminated.

Abstract: A truck-train system uses a first ("A") railway dolly or bogie to support the front or fifth-wheel hitch end of roadable truck-trailer. It uses a second ("B") railway dolly to support the rear or roadable wheel end of the same truck-trailer. The first ("A") and second ("B") railway dollies are connected to each other by a longitudinal support member having a telescoping central sill. The central sill is adapted to be detachably connected to the first ("A") railway dolly. The longitudinal support member is connected to the second ("B") railway dolly and also supports a raised platform having a deployable ramp for receiving the wheels of a roadable truck-trailer. The telescoping central sill and longitudinal support member can be locked in any fixed position to take up the train draw-bar tension and to provide for truck-trailers of various lengths.

Abstract: A rail car is adjustable in length to accommodate the mounting thereon of cargo containers of various lengths and widths, such as the presently employed 20 foot, 40 foot, 45 foot and 48 foot lengths and 96 and 102 inch widths. Length adjustment is effected either by forming the rail car frame in two telescopic end sections, or by providing an extensible coupling tongue on one or both ends of the rail car frame. The rail car also may incorporate a collapsible fifth wheel connector for the king pin of a cargo container trailer chassis to accommodate transport of a trailer-mounted cargo container. The rail car also includes structure by which it may be manipulated by external lifting equipment to stack a plurality of the rail cars one atop another, either for stationary storage in a rail yard or for transport in a train to another location.

Abstract: A module element (1) comprises a transverse window section (2) of the body, open at the ends thereof, a chassis unit (4) including a pair of wheels (20) disposed under a window (12) and connected to the window section (2) by means of a suspension (21), and a transverse door section (3) of the body, open at the ends thereof, and butt-jointed with the window section (2).A bus assembled on the basis of the module elements (1) comprises an intermediate body section (31) disposed between the module elements (1) and corresponding in the dimensions thereof to one of the sections (2 or 3) incorporated into the module element (1). The module elements (1) and the intermediate section (31) disposed therebetween are located between front and rear elements (29 and 30) of the body.The buses of the same standard size series differ in terms of the number of included module elements (1).

Abstract: A two-way horizontally extendable trolley 22 comprising a trolley frame 51 and wheels 52 for supporting trolley frame 51, a first horizontally elongated trailer frame 54 slidably mounted on frame 51, and a second horizontally elongated trailer frame 55 slidably mounted on trolley frame 51, said trailer frames 54 and 55 each having a first end extending beyond an end of frame 51, and auxiliary wheels 56 and 57, respectively, for supporting said first ends. Trolley 22 includes: means for horizontally extending trailer frames 54 and 55 outwardly from the trolley frame 51 and retracting trailer frames 54 and 55 inwardly toward trolley frame 51; hoisting means mounted on trolley frame 51; auxiliary hoisting means mounted on trailer frames 54 and 55; and means for driving wheels 52. Crane 10 for use with trolley 22 is also disclosed.

Abstract: A folding, self-locking outrigger for a load transporting vehicle, the outrigger disposed on a side of the vehicle such that the outrigger is movable between a first position wherein the outrigger is disposed substantially adjacent the side of the vehicle and a second position wherein the outrigger, in combination with adjacent outriggers, is adapted to receive an extension member so that the width of the vehicle can be increased. The folding outrigger is characterized as having a first linkage assembly, a second foldable linkage assembly, and a combination pivot-locking assembly. The combination pivot-locking assembly, which is operably connected to the second foldable linkage assembly such that the outrigger can be pivotally moved between the first and second position, secures the outrigger in the first and second position.

Abstract: A load-carrying trailer of a transport vehicle has mounted therein a load platform of which a rear section is adapted to be moved slidably in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the trailer. A front section of the load platform is divided laterally into a plurality of sub-sections adapted to fold together toward the front of the trailer when the rear section moves forwardly and adapted to extend and staighten out when the rear section moves rearwardly. The load platform facilitates loading and unloading by a crane with a relatively short jib carried by a towing vehicle coupled to the front end of the trailer.

Abstract: The combination of dimensionally standard cubical box-like cargo containers and dimensionally substandard rectangular, box-like receivable cargo containers adapted to be selectively used independent of and engaged within standard cargo containers, said standard cargo containers having standard operative mounting blocks at their eight exterior corners in standard disposition and relative spacial relationship, said receivable containers having standard apertured mounting blocks with carrier means normally related to their eight exterior corners in standard disposition and spacial relationship whereby the receivable containers are compatible with and can be used in cooperative relationship with standard containers; said apertured mounting blocks with carrier means being operable to selectively position the blocks in sub-standard spacial relationship whereby they are out of interferring relationship with related standard containers when the receivable containers are received by and arranged within the standard co