Vehicle carrying rail road car

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In an aspect of the invention, there is a rail road car and vehicles for carrying wheeled vehicles having a rail road car body supported for rolling motion in a longitudinal direction on rail road tracks. The rail road car body has a deck upon which wheeled vehicles can be conducted. A bridge plate is mounted to the rail road car body. The bridge plate is operable to permit wheeled vehicles to be conducted between the deck and a vehicle deck of a longitudinally adjacent rail road car. The bridge plate is movable to a cross-wise storage position relative to the rail road car body.
In another aspect of the invention, there is a rail road car for carrying wheeled vehicles having a rail road car body supported on rail car trucks for rolling motion in a longitudinal direction. The rail road car body has a deck upon which vehicles can be conducted. A bridge plate is mounted to the car body. The bridge plate is movable to a length-wise extended position to engage an adjacent rail road car and to permit vehicles to be conducted between the deck and the adjacent rail road car. The bridge plate is movable to a cross-wise storage position relative to the rail road car body.