Rail road car with lading securement storage apparatus

A rail road car comprising:

• a deck structure for supporting lading, said deck structure being supported on railcar trucks for rolling motion along railroad tracks;
• lading securement apparatus connected to said deck structure, said lading securement apparatus including at least one web band for wrapping about the lading and at least one tightening mechanism operable to draw the band tight about the lading to restrain the lading relative to the deck structure;
• a lading securement storage apparatus mounted to the deck structure, said lading securement storage apparatus including an enclosure mounted to said deck structure, said enclosure having an opening defined therein for admitting said web band to be placed within said enclosure;
• said enclosure being mounted to shelter said web band beneath said deck structure;
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• said enclosure being accessible from track level.

A center beam rail road car comprising:

• a deck structure carried upon spaced apart rail car trucks;
• a central beam assembly running along said deck structure and standing upwardly thereof, bunks for carrying lading being defined to either side of said central beam structure above said deck structure;
• said deck structure including a plurality of spaced apart vertical load bearing cross members, a lading support interface carried above said cross members, said cross members having laterally outboard ends distant from said central beam assembly, and side sills running along said laterally outboard ends of said cross members;
• lading securement apparatus for securing lading in said bunks, said lading securement apparatus including web bands for wrapping about the lading;
• a storage enclosure mounted next to one of said side sills and between a pair of said cross members.