Word: handcars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gamble failed because Andrews had to waste time bluffing and cajoling his way past a discouraging amount of southbound traffic on the single-track line, and especially because the stubborn Confederate conductor of the captured train pursued him so closely on foot, handcar, switching engine and reversed locomotive that there was never time to do a thorough job of sabotage. Captured only ten miles from Chattanooga, Andrews and seven of his men were hanged, and the rest thrown into prison. All of the raiders were awarded the first Congressional Medals of Honor in U.S. history...
Mickey has worked business miracles. During the Depression the Lionel Corp., manufacturer of toy trains, was rescued from receivership by the prodigious sale (253,000 items) of a handcar carrying figures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The Ingersoll people were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific run on their Mickey Mouse watches-of which more than 8,000,000 have been sold to date. Since 1929 Mickey's name or picture has appeared on 5,000 different lines of merchandise, from milk of magnesia to a $1,200 diamond bracelet to a radiator...
...armored halftrack, preceded by a jeep. The jeep's probing searchlight scanned the countryside. "Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
...your Feb. 8 picture captioned "Prizewinner Fraley Has Her Wish": when you inform the world that Mrs. Walter R. Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak...
...Walter R. Fraley, who wanted to run a manually operated railroad handcar, was satisfied by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad which provided the car for the occasion...