- 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...
-
simplest form, a "railcar" may also be
little more than a
motorized railway handcar,
draisine or railbus. Some
railway companies, such as the
Great Western...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
flooded to make a lake. The
three get a lift from a
blind man
driving a
handcar on a railway. He
tells them they will find a fortune, but not the one they...
- 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...
- 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...
