- A
handcar (also
known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a
railroad car powered...
- Estonia.
Railroads in
North America often made use of a three-wheeled
handcar designed to be
operated by a
single person,
which came to be
known as a...
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called speeder because it is
faster than a human-powered
vehicle such as a
handcar.
Motorized inspection cars date back to at
least 1896, when it was reported...
- back injury. In York's own words, "Gary
Cooper and I were
propelling a
handcar carrying several 'wounded' men down [the]
railroad track. I was on the...
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Handcar Peak is a 2,338-metre (7,671-foot)
mountain summit located in the
Railroad Group of the
Coast Mountains, in the
Pemberton Valley of southwestern...
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draisines are
known as
speeders while human-powered ones are
referred as
handcars.
Vehicles that can be
driven on both the
highway and the rail line are...
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Until the 1930s a
small number of
tramways in ****an were
operated by
human power.
Tramcar from
Matsuyama Handcar Tramway, Osaki, ****an....
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Trailer Carriers Roadrailer Well car
Brake van
Caboose Crane (railroad)
Handcar Roll-block
wagon Scale test car
Transporter wagon Outfit Car or a Camp...
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simplest form, a "railcar" may also be
little more than a
motorized railway handcar or draisine.
Railcars are
economic to run for
light p****enger
loads because...
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shaping of clay body into flatware; see
Glossary of
pottery terms § J
Handcar (hand-operated) or
railroad speeder (motorized), a
railway car
mostly used...
