Railway Handcar, Vintage Pump Trolley Model

A vintage railway handcar: a planked wooden deck with low side railings, an A-frame pump stand in the middle carrying a long walking beam with crossbar handles at each end, and four flanged wheels on the track base. Handcars, also called pump trolleys or draisines, were powered by workers pumping the beam up and down, and were used by track crews to inspect and maintain lines from the mid 19th century. They also became a classic comedy and Wild West film prop. Like every model in this collectio…

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