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Handcar

A 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 or mining car, but it was also used for…

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Handcar

Nodes86
Edges85
Triples138
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023256
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Handcar

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related to United States · 21
Handcar → America, American Civil War, Each, George, Handcars, It, Many, One, Roughly, Sheffield, Telegraph, There, They, This, Three Rivers, Thus, Transcontinental Railroad, United States, US, Western Union
related to In popular culture · 20
Handcar → Blazing Saddles, Brother, Coyote, Dad's Army, Handcars, In, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Magical Truck Adventure, Road Runner, Rushing Roulette, Sega, St Trinian's, The, The Great St Trinian's, The Royal Train, Train Robbery, Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard, Warden Hodges, Where Art Thou, Wile
related to Racing · 17
Handcar → Aside, Australia, California, Canada, Handcar Regatta, Handcars, June, One, Ontario, Palmerston, Palmerston CNR, Palmerston Railway Heritage Museum, Races, Santa Rosa, See, The Canadian Championship Handcar, These
related to External links · 15
Handcar → About, Archived, Handcar Derby, Handcar Tramways, Japan, Japanese, List, Oregon Field Guide, PRR Hand Car, Taiwan, Tramway, Wayback Machine, Wayback Machine Video, Willits Kinetic CarnivaleRailriders Archived, Yǒuruì Coal Mine Handcar
related to Japan · 15
Handcar → As, Fujieda-Yaizu Tramway, History MuseumThree, In Japan, Japan, Matsuyama Handcar Tramway, Model, Most, Osaki City Matsuyama Furusato, Saskatchewan Railway Museum, Taishaku Handcar Tramway, The, Those, Yugawara, Zusō Handcar Tramway
related to Tourist usage · 11
Handcar → Europe, Federation, For, France, In, Many, Thanks, The, The European, Vélorail, Western
related to Taiwan · 10
Handcar → Currently, Hanyu Pinyin, However, In, In Taiwan, Japanese, Most, The, Traditional Chinese, Wūlái
related to Gallery · 9
Handcar → Animation, George, India, Lake Onega, Murmansk, Nevada State Railroad MuseumRail-cycle, SheffieldA, Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, The
related to Great Britain · 5
Handcar → Hay Railway, Kington Tramway, The, There, This
related to Modern usage · 5
Handcar → Because, Handcars, On, Push, Therefore

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handcars also railroad railway push trolley car used use track many tramway velocipede races lines draisine hand tracks one section

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The Car Builder's Dictionaryinstance ofMany companies made handcars in the years following the American Civil War as evidenced by the number of advertisements in contemporary publications0.80text
railroad spikesinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
track nutsinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
boltsinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
shovelsinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
pry bars of various sortsinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
other ironinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
steel equipment.Motor section cars began to appear in the very early 1900sinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
or a few years earlierinstance ofThe disagreeable nature of this experience must have been heightened by the dead weight of typical section crew supplies0.80text
Handcarrelated to External linksPRR Hand Car0.60section
Handcarrelated to External linksHandcar Derby0.60section
Handcarrelated to External linksWillits Kinetic CarnivaleRailriders Archived0.60section

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