handcar
noun
hand·car
ˈhan(d)-ˌkär 
: a small four-wheeled railroad car propelled by a hand-operated mechanism or by a small motor
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Huff and Puff was a toddler-sized rail handcar ride that opened with Camp Snoopy in 1983.
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Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Naperville’s progress from the days of the handcar moving through the prairie to the age of the steam engine train.
—Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2021
The diplomats pushed the handcar for over a mile to get it across the border.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
The group of eight embassy staff and members of their families, including children, first took a 32-hour train ride and then a bus to reach the border area, the ministry said, where the handcar was readied and mounted on to the tracks.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
This column picks up the story after the thieves abandoned a railroad handcar used to escape from New Windsor and joined an accomplice waiting in Westminster with a horse and carriage for the rest of the getaway.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Oct. 2020
Robert Niles, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Naperville’s progress from the days of the handcar moving through the prairie to the age of the steam engine train.
—Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2021
The diplomats pushed the handcar for over a mile to get it across the border.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
The group of eight embassy staff and members of their families, including children, first took a 32-hour train ride and then a bus to reach the border area, the ministry said, where the handcar was readied and mounted on to the tracks.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
This column picks up the story after the thieves abandoned a railroad handcar used to escape from New Windsor and joined an accomplice waiting in Westminster with a horse and carriage for the rest of the getaway.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Oct. 2020
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handcar
noun
hand·car
ˈhan(d)-ˌkär
: a small railroad car powered by a hand-operated device or by a small motor
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