rail speeder

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small track car used especially for carrying foremen, company officials, and minor supplies on a logging railway.

See: speeder(def. 1b)

Quotations

1958

There I climbed on a rail speeder for the ten-mile lap to where we were cutting.