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3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved 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.
MBTA Red Line train (Boston Subway) R142 car (NYC Subway) Delhi Metro broad gauge train, manufactured by Bombardier. Bombardier's standard metro vehicles are the mid-sized fully automated and driverless INNOVIA Metro with the option for linear induction motor propulsion or a conventional rotary motor, and the high-capacity customizable MOVIA Metro, which is powered by conventional motors and ...
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A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
Perhaps the company's best-known wartime product was "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it, used for gunnery practice. [4] [2] Larger railroad motor cars were the models 27A (10-man capacity), 27AW-F (10-man capacity), and 38B-F (14-man capacity). Adding side steps could double the number of men carried.
In North America the term "railcar" has a much broader sense and can be used (as an abbreviated form of "railroad car") to refer to any item of hauled rolling-stock, whether passenger coaches or goods wagons (freight cars). [3] [4] [5] Self-powered railcars were once common in North America; see Doodlebug (rail car).
Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose railbus built on a luxury car chassis. There are records of bus bodies being fitted to special Mack Truck chassis built with small four-wheel bogie trucks under the engine and hood, and larger flanged steel drive wheels, as early as 1903. Osgood Bradley Car Company built one of the more popular bodies during ...
A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) [1] is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers, usually giving them space to sit on train seats.