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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an.
a small motorized vehicle used by railway employees for line maintenance.
Quotations
1905
. . . the cow-catcher or the top of a box car is the choicest of propelling methods, unless one can get a ride on a hand-car or a speeder, with opportunity to slacken speed or stop whenever one desires.
1947
. . . the husband, apparently a section man, had rushed up the tracks on a three-wheeled "speeder" to bring Molly back to help.
1963
A gas-driven speeder got away from workers and scooted 20 miles along the CP's main line through northwestern Ontario before it was stopped.
1bn. — Lumbering
a small track car used especially for carrying foremen, company officials, and minor supplies on a logging railway.
See: rail speeder
Quotations
1942
. . . I'm pining to sit on a "speeder, " a "locie," or car on the track.
1960
Another innovation developed in the logging railroad industry was called the "speeder."
2n. — Hist.
See quote.
Quotations
1912
A low sleigh is known as a cutter, and a high sleigh is a speeder.