3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad trackPreserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association
A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo,[1]velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a railway maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases. A typical design consists of an arm, called the walking beam, that pivots, seesaw-like, on a base, which the passengers alternately push down and pull up to move the car.
^"Kalamazoo Railroad Velocipede and Car Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S." Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
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...
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powered railway vehicle whose name "draisine" is used even today for railway handcars. Drais was unable to market his inventions for profit because he was still...
her, she helps Bond remove the larger bomb, putting the device onto a handcar and riding it out of the mine, where it explodes and kills her. Escaping...
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...
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2008. "Occupational Portrait of Three Railroad Workers Standing on Crank Handcar". World Digital Library. 1850–1860. Archived from the original on 13 October...
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