In order to allow the wheeled bogies B supporting a container X to be moved out to the front and rear of the container so the latter can be lowered and suspended there between for railway transport, a respective assembly comprising pivotally connected elongate members C and T and a jack device J are mounted at each corner of the container X. The jacks are extended to support the weight of the container while the bogies B are moved out and have their wheels changed from road to railway wheels (H to R). The pivotal connection A of the members C and T is attached to or adjacent the midpoint M of the sides of the bogie B as the latter is moved out, thus causing the member C to swing out and the member T to slide out to new positions suspending the container between the bogies B, as the former is lowered from the jack J.

A pair of running rails (46) each having upper and lower sides are laid from the ground (44) into the water (45). Main tires (12) which are positioned between the upper and lower sides of the running rail (46) and are brought into contact with the lower side of the running rail (46) when it runs on the ground, are rotatably disposed on sides of a main body of a running vehicle (1), and auxiliary tires (13), which are brought into contact with the upper side of the running rail (46) by virtue of the buoyancy of the running vehicle main body (1) when it runs in the water, are disposed such that they are brought into contact with the main tires (12). The running vehicle main body (1) can continuously run from the ground into the water by moving the running vehicle main body (1) along the running rails (46) by driving and rotating the main tires (12).

Trailer for coupling to an adapter which can be fixed to a bogie, which trailer is provided with coupling means for coupling to two or more different adapters.

Structure transversale d'extrémité pour une unité routière permettant sa transformation rail-route caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte au voisinage de chacune de ses extrémités des moyens d'accouplement et des moyens de verrouillage à réception verticale et horizontale permettant alternativement un accouplement et un verrouillage par déplacement vertical de l'unité routière (5) porteuse d'un chargement et un accouplement par translation relative longitudinale entre les bogies (7) et l'unité routière (5).

Cette invention intéresse les professionnels des transports routiers et ferroviaires.

A wagon capable of traveling on a railway and on the ground, consisting of a chassis on which, near the front and rear ends, wheels are mounted for traveling on a railway, and parallel thereto, wheels for traveling on the ground. The wheels for traveling on the ground being offset from the pivot of the truck in a direction perpendicular to the axles and the wheels for traveling on a railway being mounted in a linkage attached to the truck near one end thereof, the other end connecting with a locking means brought into engagement by the swing of the linkage with at least one receiving member attached to the chassis, so that a truck may be fixed in one or more positions. Because the wheels are mounted in trucks, the wagon can readily negotiate sharp curves in the railway, and because the ground wheels are offset from the pivot of the truck, a sort of swivel is formed, so that in traveling on the ground, the swivels will always caster to the rear in relation to the direction of travel.