track car

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small motorized vehicle used by railway employees for line maintenance.

See: speeder(def. 1a)

Quotations

1959

Struck by a train during a blinding snowstorm, the man was delivered to the doctor on a speeder (track car) unconscious.

1965

There they put the dead man on a track car and pumped their way to Nichol, where they flagged a freight.