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Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]
Fairmont MT-14 speeder in February 2004. In 1909 Frank E. Wade founded Fairmont Railway Motors of Fairmont, Minnesota (renamed the Fairmont Gas Engine and Railway Motor Car Company in 1915), was a manufacturer of rail vehicles formed from the Fairmont Machine Company. [1]
Motorcar operators, at their option, sometimes let others ride along. Participation fees vary, with areas such as Mexico's Copper Canyon attracting interest as "the ultimate speeder trip." [6] To participate in an excursion, participants are given training. A NARCOA coordinator plans the event. [2] The speeders average 20 to 25 miles per hour. [9]
The only other vehicle to fetch that much was the 2022 sale of the first retail 2023 Corvette Z06 70th Anniversary Edition. Hendrick bought that car, too, for $3.6 million.
It's a real life Fast and Furious on the same highways that you drive. Many of these so-called super speeders hit speeds in excess of 100 mph. Some are so proud of their exploits they post videos ...
An early model of a Kalamazoo motorized railroad speeder (track inspection) car. The Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a railroad-equipment manufacturer and, later, a materials-handling company, that was founded in 1883 and closed in the 1990s.
Speed reduces reaction time for drivers and increases the severity of the impact in a crash, Ezzell says, and it’s a factor in more than 1 in 5 fatal crashes in the state.
The General Motors Automatic Safety Transmission (AST) was a semi-automatic transmission released in 1937. The first mass-produced fully-automatic transmission developed for passenger automobile use was the GM Hydra-Matic introduced in the autumn of 1939 as a (very likely subsidized) $57 option for the 1940 Oldsmobile. [1]