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A railcar (not to be confused with a railway car) is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers. The term "railcar" is usually used in reference to a train consisting of a single coach (carriage, car), with a driver's cab at one or both ends. A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ...
The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) This article is about the means of transport. ...
An interior view of a modern Finnish bilevel intercity coach. ...
 With some weather protection, including mountable canvas side curtains
 A modern pair with diesel power
 ZIM-based railcar on narrow gauge railway in Gayvoron, Ukraine In its simplest form it may be little more than a motorized version of a railway handcar. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1396 KB)United States Forest Service railcar displayed at Williams, Arizona Image by User:Leonard G. Placard (with nonsubstansive edits by poster) reads: MAKE: FAIRMONT MODEL: MM-19  CLASS B9 YEAR: 1930 SERIAL NO.: 135579 ENGINE: FAIRMONT PHC 1 CYLINDER...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1396 KB)United States Forest Service railcar displayed at Williams, Arizona Image by User:Leonard G. Placard (with nonsubstansive edits by poster) reads: MAKE: FAIRMONT MODEL: MM-19  CLASS B9 YEAR: 1930 SERIAL NO.: 135579 ENGINE: FAIRMONT PHC 1 CYLINDER...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1377 KB)Railcar for transport of right-of-way inspection and signaling system maintenance crews, displayed at Williams, Arizona Placard (with nonsubstansive edits by poster) reads: MAKE: FAIRMONT MODEL: M-19 YEAR: 1939 to 1946 SERIAL NO.: 150510 ENGINE: FAIRMONT...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1377 KB)Railcar for transport of right-of-way inspection and signaling system maintenance crews, displayed at Williams, Arizona Placard (with nonsubstansive edits by poster) reads: MAKE: FAIRMONT MODEL: M-19 YEAR: 1939 to 1946 SERIAL NO.: 150510 ENGINE: FAIRMONT...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (844x631, 162 KB) A gasoline-powered rail omnibus on the New York Central Railroad. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (844x631, 162 KB) A gasoline-powered rail omnibus on the New York Central Railroad. ...
The New York Central Railroad, known simply as the New York Central in its publicity and with the AAR reporting mark of NYC, was a railroad operating in the North-Eastern United States. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x800, 232 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Railcar GAZ-12 ZIM Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner...
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GAZ-12 ZIM is a limousine produced at the GAZ from 1950 till 1960. ...
A handcar A handcar ride A handcar is a maintenance of way railroad car powered by its passengers. ...
The term is sometimes also used as an alternative name for the small types of multiple unit which consist of more than one coach. The term is used more generally now in Ireland to refer to any diesel multiple unit (DMU). A classic Belgian multiple unit of type 74 A multiple unit (MU) is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive, and can be coupled with other similar units to operate together, in...
DMU, type SA108 of Great Poland Voivodship in Poznań, Poland German DMU of class 628 A diesel multiple unit (DMU) is a train whose carriages have their own motors powered by a diesel engine. ...
Uses
Railcars are economic to run for light passenger loads because of their small size, and in many countries are often used to run passenger services on minor railway lines, such as rural railway lines where passenger traffic is sparse, and where the use of a longer train would not be cost effective. A famous example of this in the United States was the Galloping Goose railcars of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, whose introduction allowed the discontinuance of steam passenger service on the line and prolonged its life considerably. A typical North American steam train In rail transport, a train consists of rail vehicles that move along guides to transport freight or passengers from one place to another. ...
A RGS Galloping Goose Galloping Goose is the name given to road passenger vehicles purchased by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad and converted to rail use. ...
The Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) was a narrow gauge railroad which ran from Durango to Ridgway in the western part of the US state of Colorado. ...
Railcars have also been employed on premier services. In New Zealand, although railcars were primarily used on regional services, the Blue Streak and Silver Fern railcars were used on the North Island Main Trunk between Wellington and Auckland and offered a higher standard of service than previous carriage trains. The NZR88-seaters were a class of railcar used in New Zealand, aso known unofficially as articulateds, twinsets, Drewrys and Fiats. They were purchased to replace steam-hauled provincial passenger trains and mixed trains. ...
The NZR RM class Silver Fern is a class of railcar used for rail passenger transport in New Zealand. ...
The NIMT is the railway line connecting Auckland and Wellington, the two major cities of New Zealands North Island. ...
Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke in MÄori) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ...
Schematic map of Auckland. ...
Propulsion systems
Steam William Bridges Adams built steam railcars at Bow, London in the 1840s. Many British railway companies tried steam railcars but they were not very successful and were often replaced by push-pull trains. Sentinel Waggon Works was one British builder of steam railcars. William Bridges Adams (1797–1872) was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer. ...
Bow, historically Stratford-le-Bow [1], is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ...
A single GWR autocoach capable of push-pull operation. ...
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In Belgium, M. A. Cabany of Mechelen designed steam railcars. His first was built in 1877 and exhibited at a Paris exhibition. This may have been the Exposition Universelle (1878). The steam boiler was supplied by the Boussu Works and there was accommodation for First, Second and Third-class passengers and their luggage. There was also a locker for dogs underneath! Fifteen were built and they worked mainly in the Hainaut and Antwerp districts. Mechelen: Grote Markt square, with St. ...
The third Paris Worlds Fair, called an Exposition Universelle in French was held in 1878 and celebrated the recovery of France after the crushing defeat of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. ...
Boussu is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. ...
Hainaut (French; English traditionally Hainault, Dutch: Henegouwen, German: Hennegau, Walloon: Hinnot) is the westernmost province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. ...
For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ...
Diesel While early railcars were propelled by steam, gasoline, and diesel, modern railcars are usually propelled by a diesel engine mounted underneath the floor of the coach. Diesel railcars may have mechanical (fluid coupling and gearbox), hydraulic (torque converter) or electric transmission. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
A fluid coupling is a hydraulic device used for trasmitting mechanical shaft power from a rotating driver to a rotating driven load. ...
A gearbox is an assembly of gears allowing the rotational speed of an input shaft to be changed to a different speed. ...
A cut-away model of a torque converter A torque converter is modified form of a hydrodynamic fluid coupling, and like the fluid coupling, is used to transfer rotating power from a prime mover, such as an internal combustion engine or electric motor, to a rotating driven load. ...
A number of vehicles use a diesel-electric powerplant for providing locomotion. ...
Battery-electric Experiments with battery-electric railcars were conducted from around 1890 in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy. In the USA, railcars of the Edison-Beach type, with nickel-iron batteries were used from 1911. An Edison Railcar was used in New Zealand fron 1926 to 1934, see NZR RM class (Edison battery-electric). The Drumm nickel-zinc battery was used from 1932 in Irish railcars and British Railways used lead-acid batteries in a railcar in 1958. As with any other battery electric vehicle, the drawback is the limited range and weight of the battery. The nickel-iron battery is a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode, with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide. ...
The NZR RM class Edison battery-electric railcar was a popular and successful railcar that ran in Canterbury, New Zealand for eight years. ...
This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system, from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ...
Lead-acid batteries are the most commonly used rechargeable batteries today. ...
The Toyota RAV4 EV is powered by twenty-four 12 volt batteries, with an operational cost equivalent of over 165 miles per gallon at 2005 US gasoline prices. ...
Multiple units Sometimes when there are enough passengers to justify it, railcars can be joined together. Usually these form multiple units with one driver controlling all engines, however it has previously been the practice for a railcar to tow a carriage or second railcar which does not provide any power. It is not unknown for several railcars to run together each with its own driver (a practice of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee). The reason for this being that, to keep costs down, small railcars were not always fitted with multiple unit control. A classic Belgian multiple unit of type 74 A multiple unit (MU) is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive, and can be coupled with other similar units to operate together, in...
The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated in north-west Ireland during the 20th century. ...
There are also articulated railcars, with bogies under the point between the carriages rather than two pivoting bogies under each carriage (see Jacobs bogie). Amtrak Cascades operates with tilting Talgo permanently coupled trainsets Siemens LRV (articulated, low-floor) in Portland, Oregon Articulated well cars with containers Articulated cars are rail vehicles which are much longer than single passenger cars because they combine a number of smaller, lighter cars which are semi-permanently attached to...
Class 423 EMU with Jacobs bogies A closeup of a bogie on the preserved Nebraska Zephyr. ...
Railbuses A variation of railcar is a railbus, a very lightweight type of railcar designed for use specifically on little-used railway lines, and as the name suggests share many aspects of their construction with a bus, usually having a bus, or modified bus body, and having four wheels on a fixed base, instead of on bogies. An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ...
A bogie is a wheeled wagon or trolley. ...
Railbuses were used commonly in countries such as Germany, and a type of railbus known as a Pacer is still commonly used in the United Kingdom. New Zealand Railcars class RM, the NZR RM class (Leyland diesel) and the unique Wairarapa railcars which were specially designed to operate over the Rimutaka Incline between Wellington and the Wairarapa region more closely resembled railbuses. In Australia, where they were often called Rail Motors, railcars were often used for passenger services on lightly-used lines. In France they are called an Autorail. Once very common there use died out as local lines were closed. However, a new model has been introduced for lesser used lines. A Mancunian class 142 Pacer ( Alternative picture) A Westcountry based Class 143 A Yorkshire based Class 144 Pacer is the operational name of the British class 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 railbuses, built between 1984 and 1987. ...
The NZR RM class Leyland diesel railbus was the first diesel-powered vehicle to enter revenue service on New Zealands national rail network. ...
The NZR RM class Wairarapa railcar (or Rimutaka railcar) was the first truly successful class of railcars to operate on New Zealands national rail network. ...
The Rimutaka Incline was a 3-mile (5-km) stretch of steeply-graded line between Summit and Cross Creek on the original Wairarapa railway line between Wellington and Masterton in New Zealand. ...
The Wairarapa is a district or subregion of New Zealand occupying the south-eastern corner of the North Island, east of Wellington and south-west of Hawke Bay. ...
The French word Autorail describes a single powered vehicle capable of carrying passengers. ...
After the cessation of mainline passenger service on BC Rail in Canada, BC Rail started operating a pair of railbuses to some settlements not easily accessible otherwise. BC Rail (AAR reporting marks BCOL and BCIT), known as the British Columbia Railway between 1972 and 1984 and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE; AAR reporting marks PGE and PGER) before 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. ...
BC Rail (AAR reporting marks BCOL and BCIT), known as the British Columbia Railway between 1972 and 1984 and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE; AAR reporting marks PGE and PGER) before 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. ...
In Russia, Metrowagonmash (Russian: ОАО "Метровагонмаш") of Mytishchi manufactures railbus RA-1 with a Mercedes engine. As of the summer 2006, the Gorky Railroad planned to start using them on the commuter line between Nizhny Novgorod and Bor.[1] Metro-cars of type 81-740/741 and Ем/Еж in Moscow, metro station Aleksandrovskiy Sad Metrowagonmash (in Russian ОÐО Метровагонмаш) is an engineering company in Russia. ...
Mytischi (Russian: ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 19 km northeast of Moscow, at 55°55′N 37°46′E. Population: 159,900 (2002); 125,000 (1973); 60,000 (1939). ...
This page is about the Mercedes-Benz brand of automobiles and trucks from the DaimlerChrysler automobile manufacturer. ...
Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: ), colloquially shortened as Nizhny and also transliterated into English as Nizhniy Novgorod or Nizhni Novgorod or Nizhnii Novgorod, is the fourth largest city of Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. ...
Bor (Бор in Russian) is a town in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. ...
Parry People Movers A UK company currently promoting the rail bus concept is Parry People Movers. Locomotive power is from the energy stored in a flywheel. Prototypes have an on board diesel motor to bring the flywheel up to speed. In practice this could be an electric motor that need only connect to the power supply at stopping points. Alternatively a motor at the stopping points could wind up the flywheel of each car as it stops. PPM No. ...
NASA G2 flywheel Flywheel Energy Storage (FES) works by accelerating a rotor to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as inertial energy. ...
Road-rail vehicles The term railbus also refers to a dual-mode bus that can run on streets with rubber tires and on tracks with retractable HyRail train wheels. An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ...
Three British diggers HiRail wheel (retracted) on a small truck Buckingham Branch Railroads HiRail Chevy Suburban. ...
Railbus is also a term that refers to a bus that replaces or supplements rail services on low-patronage railway lines or a bus that terminates at a railway station (also called a train bus). This process is sometimes called bustitution. An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ...
Railroad or railway tracks are used on railways, which, together with railroad switches (points), guide trains without the need for steering. ...
Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
The term bustitution is a neologism sometimes used to describe the practice of replacing train service, whether street railways (light rail or tram/streetcar systems) or full-size railway systems, with a bus service, either on a temporary or permanent basis. ...
See also Piping diagram from 1920 of a Westinghouse E-T Air Brake system. ...
The French word Autorail describes a single powered vehicle capable of carrying passengers. ...
The Battery Electric Multiple Unit was an experimental two-car Multiple unit, built at the same time and in the same style as the prototype Derby Lightweight Diesel multiple units. ...
British Rail produced a variety of Railbuses as a means both of building new rolling stock cheaply, and to provide services on lightly-used lines economically. ...
Budd RDC-1 #407 of the Cape May Seashore Lines. ...
DMU, type SA108 of Great Poland Voivodship in Poznań, Poland German DMU of class 628 A diesel multiple unit (DMU) is a train whose carriages have their own motors powered by a diesel engine. ...
A handcar A handcar ride A handcar is a maintenance of way railroad car powered by its passengers. ...
McKeen car Roslyn of the Northern Pacific Railroad. ...
Brakes are used on railway trains to bring the train to a standstill. ...
Three British diggers HiRail wheel (retracted) on a small truck Buckingham Branch Railroads HiRail Chevy Suburban. ...
A Trackmobile 4150. ...
Three British diggers HiRail wheel (retracted) on a small truck Buckingham Branch Railroads HiRail Chevy Suburban. ...
River LINE-GTW The Stadler GTW, sold by Stadler Rail, Switzerland, is one of the best-selling articulated local transport railcars in Europe. ...
Unimog S404. ...
External links - HyRail
- Fleet Body Equipment
- Rail-Gear (Boatright Enterprises, Inc)
- The Road Rail Bus, an experimental bus for road and rail in the 1970s
- HyRail truck
- North Central Railcar Association (in Pennsylvania)
- Rail Motor Society (NSW, Australia)
- Stadler Rail
Footnotes - ^ "Railbus RA-1 in Nizhny Novgord", on the site "Public Transportation in Nizhny Novgorod" (Russian)
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