A light railway vehicle propelled by cranks or levers and used by workers for inspecting the track.
〈北美〉（铁路上供检修路轨用的）手泵式四轮小车
Example sentencesExamples
These handcars were first patented in 1934 and were produced by a small manufacturer in Indiana.
These ‘speeders’ were the next generation of vehicles after the manually-operated handcars and come in all shapes and sizes.
The weight is necessary for the handcar with the trailing car to handle the layout's grade.
In order to get from one place to another relatively quickly, the gangs used handcars and later, speeders.
None of the freight trains in that section of the state ever ran at night, so we saw no apparent danger or harm in borrowing the handcars for a few hours.
Definition of handcar in US English:
handcar
nounˈhan(d)kärˈhæn(d)kɑr
North American
A light railroad vehicle propelled by pushing cranks or levers and used by workers for inspecting the track.
〈北美〉（铁路上供检修路轨用的）手泵式四轮小车
Example sentencesExamples
These ‘speeders’ were the next generation of vehicles after the manually-operated handcars and come in all shapes and sizes.
In order to get from one place to another relatively quickly, the gangs used handcars and later, speeders.
None of the freight trains in that section of the state ever ran at night, so we saw no apparent danger or harm in borrowing the handcars for a few hours.
The weight is necessary for the handcar with the trailing car to handle the layout's grade.
These handcars were first patented in 1934 and were produced by a small manufacturer in Indiana.