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Abstract

Disclosed is an intermodal railway car 100 capable of carrying a number of different designs of highway vehicle trailers or cargo containers used to ship goods over such distances as will make railway transportation of such trailers or containers economically advantageous over other forms of transporting such goods to the marketplace. The intermodal railway car 100 is designed with a reduced profile vertically and laterally to allow clearance of Association of American Railroads clearance diagram-plae 'B'. Furthermore, the car is designed to minimize cost in terms of the use of standard railway trucks 108 to support more than one intermodal railway car 100 thereby reducing the number of trucks 108 and the expense thereof for the construction of such intermodal railway cars 100 by the factor of the number of intermodal railway cars 100 minus one. The intermodal railway car 100 incorporates an articulated connection 114 that can be arranged on either end of the intermodal railway car 100 so as to permit the joining of such intermodal railway cars 100 into groups of two or more so as to significantly reduce the overall production costs thereof while obtaining and maintaining the substantial benefits of versatility for the carrying of highway vehicle trailers or containers.

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