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Last Update: 2007-04-14
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There was an article by G.R. Wescott of the MP in the Sept. '45 Railway Signaling. He pointed out the biggest problem of all handcars and section cars - You can't just run them into a siding to get out the way of other trains. Thus they had to be light enough to be picked up by the workers and moved off the tracks. This was a particular problem of motorized cars, making the motors powerful to get sufficient speed and yet stay down within weight limits. And handcars often