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Originally Posted by Jungmann
The railroad/transit buffs can correct me, but I believe it's a shed for a handcar that can be brought out to inspect the rails.
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A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases. A typical design consists of an arm, called the walking beam, that pivots, seesaw-like, on a base, which the passengers alternately push down and pull up to move the car.
Handcar club.
Just a lot of up and down, up and down.....good exercise but tedious. I prefer a seat in the Club car.