Railroad car

Claim 1

A THREE DECK RAILROAD FREIGHT CAR FOR TRANSPORTING AUTOMOBILES AND THE LIKE ON THREE LEVELS, SAID CARS HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY OPEN ENDS, OPEN SIDES AND AN OPEN TOP, AND COMPRISING AN ELONGATED LOWERMOST LOAD SUPPORTING DECK STRUCTURE MOUNTED ON A CUSHION UNDERFRAME STRUCTURE SUPPORTED ON SPACED WHEEL TRUCK ASSEMBLIES, SAID DECK STRUCTURE HAVING SIDE SILLS AND A FIRST PAIR OF SPACED LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING LOAD SUPPORTING TRACK MEMBERS FORMING A FIRST LEVEL FOR ACCOMMODATING AUTOMOBILES SAID FIRST PAIR OF LOAD SUPPORTING TRACK MEMBERS OF SAID DECK STRUCTURE BEING AT AN ELEVATION LOWER THAN THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE UNDERFRAME CONSTRUCTION TO REDUCE THE HEIGHT OF THE LOWERMOST DECK, AN UPRIGHT SUPERSTRUCTURE FIXED TO EACH OF THE OPPOSITE SIDE EDGES OF THE SIDE SILLS, SAID SUPERSTRUCTURE INCLUDING VERTICAL COLUMNS ATTACHED AT SPACED LOCATIONS TO THE SIDE SILLS, TWO PAIRS OF VERTICALLY SPACED LATERALLY ALIGNED LONGITUDINALLY MEMBERS FASTENED TO THE INNER SURFACE OF THE VERTICAL COLUMNS, EACH LATERALLY ALIGNED MEMBER HAVING A SECTION EXTENDING INWARDLY TOWARD THE OTYER, AND BAR SECTION EXTENDING INBETWEEN THE VERTICAL COLUMNS ADJACENT THE LONGITUDINAL MEMBERS TO FORM SUBSTANTIALLY Z SHAPED SECTION MEMBERS WHICH PROVIDE TORSIONAL STRENGTH TO THE SUPERSTRUCTURE, A SECOND PAIR OF THIN, LATERALLY SPACED, SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL LOAD SUPPORTING MEMBERS ATTACHED TO THE INWARDLY EXTENDING SECTIONS OF THE LOWER PAIR OF LATERALLY ALIGNED LONGITUDINAL MEMBERS IN A CANTILEVER ATTACHMENT TO THE UPRIGHT STRUCTURES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE CAR AT A PREDETERMINED HEIGHT ABOVE THE BED STRUCTURE TO FORM A SECOND LEVEL OF SPACED TRACK MEMBERS FOR ACCOMMODATING AUTOMOBILES, UPWARDLY EXTENDING BRACING MEANS HAVING ONE END SECURED TO THE TRACK MEMBERS AND THE OTHER END SECURED TO THE Z SHAPED MEMBERS TO LEAVE THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE SECOND PAIR OF LOAD SUPPORTING TRACK MEMBERS SUBSTANTIALLY UNOBSTRUCTED, A THIRD PAIR OF THIN, LATERALLY SPACED, SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL LOAD SUPPORTING MEMBERS ATTCHED TO THE INWARDLY EXTENDING SECTIONS OF THE UPPER PAIR OF LATERALLY ALIGNED LONGITUDINAL MEMBERS IN A CANTILEVER ATTACHMENT TO THE UPRIGHT STRUCTURE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE CAR AT A PREDETERMINED DISTANCE ABOVE SAID SECOND LEVEL TO FORM A THIRD LEVEL OF SPACED LOAD SUPPORTING TRACK MEMBERS FOR ACCOMMODATING AUTOMOBILES, UPWARDLY EXTENDING BRACING MEANS HAVING ONE END SECURED TO THE TRACK MEMBERS AND THE OTHER END SECURED TO THE Z SHAPED MEMBERS TO LEAVE THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE THIRD PAIR OF LOAD SUPPORTING TRACK MEMBERS SUBSTANTIALLY UNOBSTRUCTED, HANDRAIL MEMBERS POSITIONED ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF THE THIRD LEVEL. MEANS POSITIONED ALONG THE TRACK MEMBERS ON ALL OF THE LEVELS FOR ANCHORING AUTOMOBILES THERETO, LONGITUDINALLY DIRECTED PLATE MEMBERS TYING THE INNERMOST EDGED OF THE SECOND AND THIRD LEVEL TRACK MEMBERS TOGETHER TO PREVENT OIL LEAKAGE FROM THE AUTOMOBILES CARRIED ON THE HIGHER TRACKS ONTO AUTOMOBILES ON THE NEXT LOWER TRACK, CROSSTIE MEMBERS CONNECTED BETWEEN LATERALLY ALIGNED COLUMNS AT THE ENDS OF THE CAR ON THE THIRD LEVEL TO PROVIDE LATERAL SUPPORT FOR THE SUPERSTRUCTURE, AND MEANS AT THE END OF EACH OF SAID LEVEL FOR COOPERATING WITH CORRESPONDING SIMILAR MEANS ON AN ADJACENT CAR TO MAKE THE SAID THREE LEVELS CONTINUOUS THEREBETWEEN.