A rail vehicle with two sideframes and a bolster as the freight car truck has limits on stability. A railway freight car truck having a friction shoe with a constant force device acting directly on the shoe flat surface is provided, such that the friction shoe is forced to remain in contact with the side frame mating vertical surface. The control spring acting on the friction shoe which applies a varying force to the side frame mating surface. The damping of the friction shoe is retained when there is less variable force of friction, which decreases vertical acceleration of the rail vehicle, providing high speed stability for most track conditions.

A railway freight car bogie includes a side frame, a bolster and a friction damper. The friction damper includes a wedge, a constant friction damping spring, a variable friction damping spring and an ejector rod. The variable friction damping spring in the middle and below the wedge is deviated at a distance in a direction away from a center of the bolster with respect to damping springs at two sides of the variable friction damping spring. An axis of each of the constant friction damping spring and the ejector rod is coincident with an axis of the variable friction damping spring in the middle and below the wedge. The bogie not only has an ideal relative friction coefficient in both an unloaded condition and a loaded condition, a large diamond resistant rigidity, a better vertical dynamics performance and a better transverse dynamics performance.

The disclosure discloses a swing bolster, a swing bolster vibration reduction assembly and a bogie. The swing bolster includes a body, wherein a mounting cavity for mounting a friction block is formed in two ends of the body; the mounting cavity is provided with a first horizontal opening and a second horizontal opening, which are opposite to each other; and opening directions of the first horizontal opening and the second horizontal opening are perpendicular to an extending direction of the body. When the swing bolster in the disclosure is used, the friction block is mounted in the mounting cavity of the swing bolster body, and end parts of the friction block extend out of the first horizontal opening and second horizontal opening of the mounting cavity. The friction block is not matched with the swing bolster through sloped portions, and a movement direction of the swing bolster is perpendicular to a movement direction of the friction block relative to the swing bolster, so that wear of the friction block and the swing bolster is reduced, influence caused by the relative movement or wear of the swing bolster and the friction block to vibration reduction performance of the vertical elastic elements is prevented, a vibration reduction effect of the bogie in an unloaded state is ensured, and using reliability of the swing bolster is ensured.

Systems are provided for railroad car truck including a bolster. In one example, the bolster may include a top member including a bolster bowl, a bottom member extending downward from the top member, a first end of the bolster pocket positioned at a first end of the top member and a second end of the bolster positioned distal from the first and of the bolster, and at least one friction pockets. Each of the at least one friction pocket is not defined by a shelf.

A friction shoe is provided for use in a railway truck. The friction shoe is placed such that it frictionally engages both a wear plate on the side frame vertical column and wear plates on the slope surfaces of the bolster to dampen the oscillating motion of the bolster when supported by spring groups in the side frame. The shoe is provided with sloped surfaces that engage complementary slope surfaces on the bolster. Wear plates are fitted and held on the sloped surfaces of the bolster and on the vertical columns of the side frames.

A friction shoe for a railway car truck is provided. The railway truck comprises two parallel side frames, a suspension spring assembly supported by the side frames, and a bolster transversely mounted between the side frames and supported by the suspension spring assembly. Each side frame has at least one vertical support face,

and the bolster has at least one sloped support face. The friction shoe comprises a bottom base engaging and supported by a pair of support springs, and a sloped wall engaging the sloped support face of the bolster. The bottom base includes a cylindrical spring lug that has a center opening that extends through the spring lug. The bottom surface of the spring lug is flat and smooth and is designed to engage with and provides the ability to use an additional concentrically nested support spring. The additional spring increases the force between the vertical support face of the wedge and the vertical wear plate of the side frame.

A friction shoe for a railway car truck is provided. The railway truck comprises two parallel side frames, a suspension spring assembly supported by the side frames, and a bolster transversely mounted between the side frames and supported by the suspension spring assembly. Each side frame has at least one vertical support face, and the bolster has at least one sloped support face.

The friction shoe comprises a bottom base engaging and supported by a support spring, and a sloped wall engaging the sloped support face of the bolster.

The present invention includes geometric improvements in friction shoe design which prevent bolster side wall wear and helps eliminate the possibility of the friction shoe's wear on the bolster side wall from interfering with its normal movement over its service life.

A friction shoe for a railway car truck is provided. The railway truck comprises two parallel side frames, a suspension spring assembly supported by the side frames, and a bolster transversely mounted between the side frames and supported by the suspension spring assembly. Each side frame has at least one vertical support face, and the bolster has at least one sloped support face. The friction shoe comprises a sloped wall engaging the sloped support face of the bolster, a vertical wall engaging the side frame vertical support face, and a bottom base engaging and supported by a suspension control spring group which comprises three concentrically nested coil springs which provide a normal force on the column wear plate of between 3000 and 5000 pounds in the static empty railway car truck condition and between 7,500 and 12,000 pounds force under the static loaded railway car truck condition.

A friction shoe for a railway car truck is provided. The railway truck comprises two parallel sideframes, a suspension spring assembly supported by the sideframes, and a bolster transversely mounted between the sideframes and supported by the suspension spring assembly. Each sideframe has at least one vertical support face, and the bolster has at least one sloped support face. The friction shoe comprises a bottom base engaging and supported by a suspension control spring, a sloped face engaging the sloped wall of the bolster. The friction shoe further includes a vertical face including a pocket, with a friction liner in the pocket. The friction liner engaging the vertical column of the sideframe. The friction shoe friction liner comprised of a material providing a damping force of between 700 and 16,250 pounds and a normal force of between 2000 and 12,000 pounds.

A railroad car truck for a railroad freight car, such as an autorack car, has a bolster mounted cross-wise between two sideframes. The bolster ends are mounted on respective spring groups carried by the sideframes. The bolster can translate laterally relative to the sideframes. The side frames are mounted to swing laterally relative to the wheel sets, and hence relative to the rails. Resistance to lateral deflection is provided by the resistance of the sideframes to the pendulum swinging motion, and by shear in the spring groups. The truck has a doubled damper arrangement of dampers in a four-cornered layout at each end of the bolster, giving a flexing resistance to yaw between the sideframes and the bolster ends. The doubled damper arrangement works against large wear plates mounted on the sideframe columns. The large wear plates are mounted normal to the dampers and square to the sideframes.