Narrow gauge handcars ??

Yes, 3 foot gauge handcars were made by the normal suppliers of railroad goods. A 2 foot gauge handcar from the Brookfield Zoo railroad is now at Hesston Steam Museum, and if you ask a staff member, they can take you to the building where it's stored, and you can have a look.

http://hesston.org/

Back when the D&RGW operated the 36" narrow gauge Silverton branch in the 1950's and I rode it, I watched them precede my train with a motorized hand car, checking

the track for rock falls.  More recently I have seen one sitting  in this little yard a few

miles north of Durango (Hermosa?) that you can turn east off of 550 and drive back to, and have seen one come into Silverton, preceding a train as then.

The 3' gauge East Broad Top has a handcar and a motorcar (speeder) as well as a gas-electric car, the M-1.

velocipedes foe the 2 foot WW & Fry are the standard 3 wheeled ones with the out rigger wheel being adjustable for any gauge.hand cars are pretty much the same, just narrow wheel sets , but plenty of room for 4 on the deck. 

Thanks, Galo. That's pretty much what I had pictured in my mind, if they made them. I knew they couldn't be made the way the standard gauges were.

Vulcan:  If you're looking for something operational, Life-Like made an HO handcar back in the '70's. Maybe it could be the basis for something in 0n30. Just a thought.

Art, if by operational you mean motorized, no. I want something that looks right.

I made this a while back in O. It's "operational".

Problem is all my little people don't want to do any work. Mention labor and they freeze up.

The Denver South Park and Pacific used another style of hand car that was known as a gravity car.  It was a 3 wheel car with 2 wheels one one side on the other. (This information on page 363 in Mack Poor's book).  I did not find any information if these were hand powered or pushed.  Just some thing else to consider.

Al

Home-made unit for an 18" gauge railroad.

On my On30 I use an Ho Bachmann hand car,up on the 3 upper tracks the perspective is fine.James

Home-made unit for an 18" gauge railroad

Very nice Ace. A person could lay some track around their house and have a nice layout.

Al

Thanks, Jim.

Sounds like a velocipede (not sure about the spelling?).

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I think it was just yesterday I mentioned on another thread having 2 of a 3 book

series by Elmer Sulzer on "ghost" (abandoned) railroads, lacking the one on Tennessee RR's,  and my wish was somebody's command, for in a train show today

I picked up a copy.  And therein is a photo of a narrow gauge motor car (powered

hand car) in use on the "Tweetsie" (ET&NWC).

Just arrived today a Thomas by ERTL make quite a good hand car once the over size man is removed.