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  2. Kinzie Street railroad bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Sun-Times, the last railroad customer to the east of the bridge, moved their printing plant out of downtown Chicago in 2000, and the bridge has been unused since. It was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2007. The bridge is lowered once a year and inspected by crew driving a Hi-Rail truck, and is still in "active" status. [2] [3]

  3. Handcar - Wikipedia

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    3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.

  4. Autorack - Wikipedia

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    The circus solution to loading vehicles was to use a string of flatcars. A temporary ramp was placed at the end of the flatcars and temporary bridge plates spanned the gaps between adjacent flatcars; the road vehicles were driven or towed up onto one car and then driven or towed down the train.

  5. History of the railway track - Wikipedia

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    The two lengths were loaded on ten wagons, attached to the existing track by a steel rope and drawn back at 30 ft/min (9.1 m/min). As the train moved back, the old rails were levered out and the new ones dropped into the chairs. A hoist on the rear wagon dropped the last part of the rail into place. [26]

  6. Passenger railroad car - Wikipedia

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    Many American passenger trains, particularly the long distance ones, included a car at the end of the train called an observation car. Until about the 1930s, these had an open-air platform at the rear, the "observation platform". These evolved into the closed end car, usually with a rounded end which was still called an "observation car".

  7. Hand truck - Wikipedia

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    A hand truck. A hand truck, also known as a hand trolley, dolly, stack truck, trundler, box cart, sack barrow, cart, sack truck, two wheeler, or bag barrow, is an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand truck is upright. [1]

  8. Bogie - Wikipedia

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    At least one wheelset, composed of an axle with bearings and a wheel at each end. The bolster, the main crossmember, connected to the bogie frame through the secondary suspension. The railway car is supported at the pivot point on the bolster. Axle box suspensions absorb shocks between the axle bearings and the bogie frame.

  9. Railcar - Wikipedia

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    A two-car New South Wales Hunter railcar in Australia 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 An electric SJ Class X16 with control trailer between Strängnäs and Malmby in Sweden A tram on the Broadway Bridge in Portland

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