Railroad car for transporting containers

Claim 1

A railway car for carrying hopper type containers and standard containers comprising: trucks mounted on opposite ends of the car supporting a car deck; side sills extending longitudinally on opposite sides of the car between the trucks; hopper type containers having legs on opposite ends thereof extending transversely across the deck, and hopper outlets having handles thereon for opening and closing said outlets; hopper container latch means spaced longitudinally along the deck on opposite sides thereof having means thereon for lockingly engaging openings in said hopper type container legs; a plurality of pedestal support means spaced longitudinally along the deck on opposite sides thereof adapted to support a plurality of standard type containers on said pedestals above said hopper type container latch means; said pedestals having pedestal latch means thereon lockingly engaging spaced openings in a bottom portion of said standard containers to hold said standard containers above the car deck; generally transversely extending support means extending between the side sills below the deck and directly below said hopper container latch means and said directly below pedestal support means for distributing the weight of said hopper type containers and standard containers and transmitting the same to said trucks; and openings in the car deck for allowing said handles to move therein whereby said hopper type containers may be unloaded without removing the same from the car.