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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...
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    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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    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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    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...
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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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    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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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Until the 1930s a small number of tramways in Japan were operated by human power. Tramcar from Matsuyama Handcar Tramway, Osaki, Japan....
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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 passenger loads because...
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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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    [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...
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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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    Auto rickshaw Cycle rickshaw Rickshaw Rickshaw art Human-powered transport Boda-boda (bicycle taxi) Carriage Litter Handcar Taiwanese push car railways...
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    Next to Nothing. The "Kalamazoo" was one of several names of a railroad handcar that was produced by the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company. In Dr. Seuss's...
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    Gifford-Hill & Company #H109: handcar, Donated 1964 Houston & Texas Central Railroad Depot, ca. 1905 Houston & Texas Central Railroad Handcar Shed, Dallas, TX ca...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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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...
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    into twisting tunnels within the mountain, traveling on an old railway handcar. They are attacked by subterranean creatures called "Slow Mutants." At...
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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...
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    Japan which was operated around 1900. The initially 7 miles (11 km) long handcar line was opened in 1895 and connected the coastal towns Atami and Yoshihama...
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    railroad truck was dug up on the island in 2014, possibly the remains of a handcar. In 1920, upon the end of World War I, the Army restructured its internal...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    the line is now used by the tourist railfan group handcar tours which host handcar rides on handcars that are either row-powered or electric-assitted pedaled...
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    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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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