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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.
RPCX - Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau; RPDX - Rapido Trains Inc. RPRC - Richmond Pacific Railroad; RPRX - Railpower Hybrid Technologies Corp; RR - Conrail; RRC - Respondek Railroad Corporation; RREX - Rex Railway; RRLX - Railroad Resources, Inc. (maintenance of way cars) RRLX - Rail Logistics Inc. / Rail Logistics LC [24]
Rail network in 1892 Rail network in 1906 Rail network in 1950. Construction of the first railway from Cape Town to Wellington was commenced in 1858. However the first passenger-carrying and goods service was a small line of about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) built by the Natal Railway Company, linking the town of Durban with Harbour Point, opened on 26 June 1860. [2]
A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1] Although slow compared to a train or car, it is called speeder ...
A work train (departmental train or engineering train/vehicles in the UK [1]) is one or more rail cars intended for internal non-revenue use by the railroad's operator. Work trains serve functions such as track maintenance , maintenance of way , revenue collection, system cleanup and waste removal, heavy duty hauling, and crew member transport.
4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) and 3 ft (914 mm) Doodlebug or hoodlebug is a nickname in the United States for a type of self-propelled railcar most commonly configured to carry both passengers and freight, often dedicated baggage, mail or express, as in a combine . [ 1 ]
Rail car may refer to: Railcar , a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers Railroad car , a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network