A magnetized rail for improving the adhesion between the rail and the steel wheels of a rail car will help prevent skidding of the rail car when decelerating from a high speed. The rail is split with an air gap in the rail head and a electromagnet coupled between the split webs of the rail.

An electrical power supply and guidance assembly for a wheeled vehicle, consisting of a raisable and pivotable guide member supporting at least one pair of guide wheels which together define a V shape and engage the central web of the rail, the rail being a guiding profile section used as a track. Covering portions forming a linear closure protect the space containing the conductors. Opening mechanisms enable the contact portion(s) to pass through and along the closure to collect the supply curr...

A partially spring-loaded drive, particularly for electrically-powered rail vehicles, having a gear which, including an encapsulating gear housing, is seated on the wheel axle, and a pinion that is seated in the gear housing. The coupled motor is fixedly secured to the truck, and the resilient, elastic fastening of the gear housing to the truck is effected by way of at least two elastic spring elements that are mounted nearly vertically and diametrically opposite the pinion shaft, and whose line...

A railway vehicle truck assembly comprises the following, in part: wheel sets having longitudinally spaced, transversely extending axles, and wheels mounted to the axles; transversely spaced longitudinally extending side frames mounted to the axles; and a transversely extending bolster mounted to the side frames. The bolster has a center bowl and opposed, elongated bolster arms extending from the center bowl. The bolster arms each form spaced structural walls, a first of the structural walls of ...

A vibration damping arrangement for a gondola of a type having a supporting unit attached to a cable, a hanger suspended from the supporting unit and a carriage suspended from the hanger. A vibration damping device includes an elongated hollow housing. A bottom plate of the housing defines a downwardly arcuate oscillation track which extends in a direction perpendicular to the cable. A vibration damping body is movably located on the oscillation track such that it can naturally oscillate on the ...

The present invention relates to an axle, or a pair of axles forming a bogie, motorized and having wheels that rotate independently, which axle is connected to a body or a corridor connection of a vehicle either via a load-bearing cross-member, or directly via the suspension systems, the wheels of the axle being mounted to rotate independently, wherein the entire set of members that transmit motion between the motor(s) and the wheels is disposed in a load-bearing axle assembly referred to as a "...

A feeder is disposed along a guide rail that guides an electrically powered vehicle. The electrically powered vehicle has an electric power receiving unit that accommodates the feeder. Electric power is supplied from the feeder to the electrically powered vehicle through the electric power receiving unit on a non-contact basis. The distance between the guide rail and the feeder in a straight portion of the guide rail is different from the distance between the guide rail and the feeder in a curve...

A gangway bellows for rolling stock, where the bellows has corrugated regions forming a deformable volume, and comprises a plurality of assembled-together modules, each module being made of a rubber-base material and including at least two corrugated regions that are assembled together by vulcanization.

An automatic identification system having a storage device mounted on the car, which includes the car identification data. A reading device is connected to a local communication node which communicates with the locomotive in a network. The local communication node communicates the read identification data to the controller at the locomotive. The identification data includes at least the serial number, brake ratio, light weight and gross rail weight of the car. The storage device is permanently m...

Connection of rails (11, 11, 15, 15) or manufacturing of yoke members can be facilitated and necessity of a special bending device can be eliminated by configuring end yoke members (21) and intermediate yoke members (20) to have the same planar plate form. Welding lines can be shortened and the rails (11, 15) can be connected speedily by welding predetermined locations of the yoke members (20, 21) to predetermined surfaces of the rails (11 and 15). By interposing intermediate members (24) fillin...