Railcar
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A railcar, or motor car is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers. The "self-propelled railcar" refers to a railway train consisting of a single coach, with a driver's cab a
The Regio-Shuttle RS1 low-floor vehicle is a modern version of a single unit railcar. Several of these can run together.
The RegioSpider modern railcar.
A 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge Latvian RVR-made railbus AR2-002 in Vilnius, Lithuania, based on Soviet design
A ČSD Class M 152.0 in Leipzig
Motor coach (rail)
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A motor coach or motorcar is a self-propelled passenger rail vehicle also capable of hauling a train. With multiple unit train control, one operator can control several "motor coaches", possibly even
Railcar
…vehicles "railmotors" (or "rail motors"). Self-propelled passenger vehicles also capable of hauling a train are, in technical rail usage, usually called "rail motor coaches". In Australia, the term is sometimes also used as an alternative name for the small types of multiple unit which consist of more than one coach. This…
A 2100 kW motor coach of SOB at the head of a train in Wädenswil 2003
Two motor coaches of RhB in MU pulling the maximum allowed load of 140 t on the Bernina line
An old Bodensee-Toggenburg (Switzerland) motor coach pulling four coaches: not an EMU and not a railcar
Electric motor coach of CEV (Switzerland) with driving trailer