Rail car movers - videos

**Jon** · Jul 11, 2020, 03:02 PM

Rail car movers, three flavors.

Manual. 1:45 video:

Electric. 1:43 video:

Gas. 6:13 video:

Previously:

1964 shunting horse for pulling railway carriages - video
Small truck rail riding carriage - video
Laser train for clearing rails - GIF
Marine railway; only one in North America - GIF
wartime railway and train sabotage techniques
Rail grinder - video
Railway jet engine snowblower - GIF
Devil's shingle railway slideboard - photos and video
Rail-riding roto dump truck - video
Railroad multi-maintenance heavy equipment - GIF, video, photos
1951 Chevy rail maintenance car - photo and videos
Volkswagen Kombi bus riding on rails - photo
Leapfrog duplex railway - video
1860 hand-operated manual railway crane - photo

**toeless joe** · Jul 11, 2020, 10:51 PM

2:18 So simple, even a suit can do it.

**Savage11** · Jul 12, 2020, 05:52 AM

I actually have one of the hand box car movers. There is another one at work minus the handle.

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 12, 2020, 11:10 AM

I walk stuff like machines on shafts from scrapped Foosball table with 2 pinch bars. The manual version car mover strikes me as a 2nd class lever. I'm imagining how to fabricate one to work from more of a standing position, compared to pinching.

**mklotz** · Jul 12, 2020, 11:35 AM

Archaeologists are always speculating about how ancient peoples moved giant stone monoliths about. Is it possible that they too discovered this version of the lever ? With the monolith on rollers, the motion would be nearly identical to pushing railroad cars around. At the very least, it would be far more effective than dragging (or walking as the Nui people did) and wouldn't require any great technological leaps forward to evolve.