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- 1. FREIGHT CAR ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES STARFIRE TECHNOLOGIES STARFIRE provides expertise in Safety Appliances designing and analyzing new and n Safety Appliance modifications and upgrades modified components, equipment, and n Safety Appliance review for conformance with applicable regulations structures for railroad freight cars of n diagram review and conformance check Clearance any gauge and size. In addition, STARFIRE provides complete drawings Trucks and Suspensions and drawing sets to support shop and n Truck modifications fabricating processes, as appropriate. n Truck regauging Applicable AAR, APTA, and FRA n truck design Fabricated n Spring design for altered carbody weights, conformance regulations, specifications, and with AAR requirements recommended practices are used as a basis for design and modification. End Brake Systems user requirements are also fully n Brake System modifications, upgrades considered in STARFIRE's design n System component integration and rigging New Brake process. The following outlines design n bracketry design Component STARFIRE's capabilities. Carbody and Structural Drawgear n modifications Drawgear n new freight car design for manufacture, Complete including brake, truck, drawgear, safety appliances n of E to F couplers, F to E couplers Conversion n New Carbody design for rebody efforts n New Drawgear design n height increase, decrease Carbody n Draft pocket design n Modification to fit within Plate clearances n Conversion: rigid to EOC, EOC to rigid n shortening, lengthening Carbody n modifications for different commodity Carbody Operating Calculations requirements ncalculations, coupled and uncoupled, including No. Curving n Door modifications, conversions from plug to sliding, or 7 crossover sliding to plug n L/V calculations n Door relocations n Applications or removal of interior lading restraints Freight Cars, General n Modifications for increased gross rail loads, rebuilds n Wreck repair assistance n Weight distribution and center of gravity calculations n diagram review and conformance check Clearance ncalculations for new equipment Fatigue PURPOSE-DRIVEN | CUSTOMIZED | PRECISE Copyright 2011 Starfire Engineering All Rights Reserved www.starfireengineering.com For answers to all of your questions, contact Ken Smith Direct: 785-979-9469 INVENTIVE www.starfireengineering.com SOLUTIONS 2429 Iowa Street, Suite K, Lawrence, Kansas 66046-4040 USA INNOVATIVE Phone 785-842-1111 Fax 785-842-8811 DESIGNS