Starfire Technologies provides engineering expertise in designing and modifying components for freight cars, including safety appliances, trucks, suspensions, brake systems, drawgear, and carbody structures. They offer new designs, modifications to meet regulations, and complete drawings. Starfire considers applicable standards and customer requirements in the design process, with capabilities in areas such as truck regauging, brake system upgrades, draft pocket design, and fatigue calculations.

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
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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
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