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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.
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
In Ireland, the Drumm Battery Train used nickel-zinc batteries on four 2-car sets between 1932 and 1946 on the coastal and Harcourt Street railway lines. British Railways used lead–acid batteries in a railcar in 1958. Between 1955 and 1995 DB railways successfully operated 232 DB Class ETA 150 railcars utilising lead–acid batteries.
An Amtrak catenary maintenance vehicle. Both a crane and a movable platform can be seen on the vehicle's roof. A catenary maintenance vehicle (also known as a tower wagon or tower car) is a railroad maintenance of way vehicle that is used to maintain and inspect overhead line (also known as catenary) on electrified railroad or metro tracks.
Maximum tonnage of a train that uses this type of coupler is about 6000 t. [31] AK69e and Intermat adoption failure has been attributed to economic performance. [36] As of 2020 it has found limited use: it has been adopted by the Iranian Railways [37] and is also used in Germany on trains transporting iron ore between Hamburg and Salzgitter. [38]
Of those, 535 are scheduled to be in active service; the others are used to build up four spare trains (used to maintain on-time service). [1] [2] The remaining 90 cars are in for repair, maintenance, or some type of planned modification work. [3] All trains on the separate automated guideway transit line are in regular use without spares.
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Baquedano semi-circular roundhouse for 16 locos with turntable. Abandoned building claiming to be a museum, but unattended. Has 5 preserved (not restored) steam locomotives in and around the roundhouse, as well as old carriages and wagons. Is in the centre of a working railway yard - Baquedano Station.