handcar
Americannoun
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Bike-adjacent inventions that roll atop train tracks have been known by many different names — handcar, draisine, kalamazoo and velocipede are just a few — since they first cropped up around the 1860s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
And between two wooden luggage carts from the late 1800s sits a railway velocipede, a three-wheeled handcar that was operated by pedals.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2020
In 1962, he published the marvellous “Willowdale Handcar,” in which three young people take off one day on a railroad handcar.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
The train’s conductor, William A. Fuller, pursued the first on a handcar and then by commandeering another locomotive.
From Time ● Jul. 3, 2013
Finally spent, she curled on the handcar and dozed, aloft in the darkness as if nestled in the deepest recess of the night sky.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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