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单词 Rail trolley
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Rail trolley

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Handcar

3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track.
A magic lantern image from circa 1895, shows four natives from British India pushing a hand-car in Bolan Pass (now in Pakistan).
Handcar designed to be operated by a single person, widely known in North America as a Velocipede.
Zusō Handcar Tramway in Yugawara, Japan, 1895-1924.

A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine (powered or unpowered)) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases. A typical design consists of an arm, called the walking beam, that pivots, seesaw-like, on a base, which the passengers alternately push down and pull up to move the car.

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