Coil car with shiftable trough assemblies

A vehicle for carrying cylindrical objects including, spaced apart longitudinal side sills defining a lading area therebetween, support means intermediate said side sills, a plurality of laterally spaced apart fixed trough members attached to said support means, at least a pair of removable shiftable trough assemblies selectively positionable above said support means at various lateral distances from the centerline of the vehicle, each said shiftable trough assembly defining an inverted "V" configuration, each said shiftable trough assembly when disposed at a first lateral position from the vehicle centerline forming with one of said fixed trough members a trough having its apex spaced from the vehicle centerline at a first distance, and each said shiftable trough assembly displaceable to a second lateral position relative the vehicle centerline to form with the respective same one of said fixed through members a trough having its apex spaced from the vehicle centerline at a second distance.