Handcar
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A handcar 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 serv
3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track
Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association
Indian Railway Inspection Trolley in 2007
Handcar designed to be operated by a single person, widely known in North America as a velocipede.
Draisine
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A draisine is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure.
Handcar
…handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, gandy dancer cart, platelayers' cart, draisine, or railbike) 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…
Two-person rail-cycle draisine with four wheels, for leisure
Drais's dandy horse, called Draisine in German, whose name was inherited by the later rail vehicle. (Drawing published in 1817.)
Basic railbike-draisine
World record holding rail human powered vehicle (HPV) at Laupen 2001