The crippled one was helped aboard of the handcar, Zeph joined them, and the handcar sped away. |
Bannon walked back to the tracks, in time to see a handcar and trailer, packed with men, come up the track and stop near at hand. |
Over the hill from the next valley, the locomotive steamed down on the little handcar. |
There was nobody left in the cut, and both the train and the handcar on which the section hands had traveled, were out of sight. |
They found the manual gate valve, which can be opened by laboriously cranking a metal handle through hundreds of revolutions, like a man pumping an old-fashioned handcar down a railroad track. |
Anyone with the time and energy can then climb aboard a handcar and travel down an old colliery railway line all the way to Oranienbaum castle. |