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Handcar. 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. It is mostly used as a railway maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some ...
Railroad speeder. 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 formerly used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [ 1]
An early model of a Kalamazoo motorized railroad speeder (track inspection) car. The Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a railroad-equipment manufacturer and, later, a materials-handling company, that was founded in 1883 and closed in the 1990s. It made four passenger vehicles for use at the 1964-65 New York ...
Barney and Smith Car Company was a railroad car manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio 39°46′02″N 84°10′31″W / 39.767096°N 84.175273°W / 39.767096; -84. Founded in 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went:
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Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008) was located in Montgomery, Alabama, specializing in the manufacture of self-propelled rail cars patterned after original Edwards designs dating from the mid-1920s. [1] Edward's also restored and manufactured other types of rail cars, including streetcars . Rebirth of the Edwards Company came in the fall of ...
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).
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. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage ...