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Handcart
Handcart Hand"cart`, n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

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- 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...
- called speeder because it is faster than a human-powered vehicle such as a handcar. Motorized inspection cars date back to at least 1895, when the Kalamazoo...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Trailer Carriers Roadrailer Well car Brake van Caboose Crane (railroad) Handcar Roll-block wagon Scale test car Transporter wagon Outfit Car or a Camp...
- 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...
- that there were locomotives in Alvarado. For $150 in gold, he acquired a handcar and the services of three Mexicans, whom he disarmed. MacArthur and his...
- from 1924 until 1938. Mamada Station: A 2 km (1.2 mi) 610 mm (2 ft) gauge handcar line to Omoigawa operated between 1899 and 1917. Hoshakuji Station: A 12 km...