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 1896, when it was reported...

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...

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...

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...

Until the 1930s a small number of tramways in Japan were operated by human power. Tramcar from Matsuyama Handcar Tramway, Osaki, Japan....

simplest form, a "railcar" may also be little more than a motorized railway handcar or draisine. Railcars are economic to run for light passenger loads because...

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...

[citation needed] Atami Station: In 1895, a 10 km (6.2 mi) 610 mm (2 ft) gauge handcar line opened to Yoshihama, and was extended 4 km (2.5 mi) to Odawara the...

could not proceed because of missing track. A Japanese patrol arrived by handcar with replacement rails and repaired the track. Birch sent the train back...

Trailer Carriers Roadrailer Well car Brake van Caboose Crane (railroad) Handcar Roll-block wagon Scale test car Transporter wagon Outfit Car or a Camp...

2008. "Occupational Portrait of Three Railroad Workers Standing on Crank Handcar". World Digital Library. 1850–1860. Archived from the original on 13 October...

Canada. He traveled from one end of Canada to the other on a motorized handcar, wearing his traditional pork pie hat and performing gags similar to those...

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...

Auto rickshaw Cycle rickshaw Rickshaw Rickshaw art Human-powered transport Boda-boda (bicycle taxi) Carriage Litter Handcar Taiwanese push car railways...

shaping of clay body into flatware; see Glossary of pottery terms § J Handcar (hand-operated) or railroad speeder (motorized), a railway car mostly used...

into twisting tunnels within the mountain, traveling on an old railway handcar. They are attacked by subterranean creatures called "Slow Mutants." At...

Weary, Astor-Honor, 1961 The Hapless Child, Obolensky, 1961 The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of the Black Doll, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962 The Beastly...

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...

speaking to Cannonball engineer Wendell Gibbs over the phone and using the handcar with him to get to the hospital; and her presence at Betty Jo's bedside...

ruining his life. 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...

Haney. Trying to get to Hooterville, Eunice is stuck with Uncle Joe on his handcar. Haney tries to sell Oliver and Lisa their own furniture, but winds up...

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...

railroad personnel chases and overpower the desperados who had fled on a handcar. Broncho Billy Anderson as the last train wrecker Margaret Illington as...

inspection / track maintenance car or its predecessor the manually powered handcar maintenance of way (MOW) cars for maintaining track and equipment office...

Velomobile Treadle-powered vehicles Treadle bicycle Hand-powered vehicles Handcar Handcycle Hobcart Wheelchair Row action-powered vehicles Rowing cycle Foot-powered...

Gifford-Hill & Company #H109: handcar, Donated 1964 Houston & Texas Central Railroad Depot, ca. 1905 Houston & Texas Central Railroad Handcar Shed, Dallas, TX ca...

history using re-enactments, costumed docents, and including train and handcar rides. The roundhouse area of the museum features a rotating display of...