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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.
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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.
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 ]
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.
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).
3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) and 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) The McKeen Railmotor was a 6-cylinder self-propelled railcar or railmotor . When McKeen Company of Omaha , Nebraska , U.S.A. , first unveiled the car in 1905, the McKeen was among the first engines with a distillate -fueled motor. [ 1 ]
The C3 is a bi-level coach railroad car built by Kawasaki.Ordered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for use on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the cars began to enter revenue service in 1997.