Railroad speeder

speeder at the Linden Railroad Museum, Linden, Indiana Various railways and their workshops also manufactured speeders. Often these were a copy of commercially available cars, such as Wickham and Fairmont. == Dimensions ==

Approximate dimensions of a common speeder car are given below. Due to the variety of base models and customization these are not fixed numbers. These values are from a Fairmont A4-D. • Rail gauge: (56.5 inches) • Weight: • Width: • Height: • Length: (~110 inches) • Wheel diameter: • Floor height: 80–120% of the wheel diameter; - ==In popular culture==

Sandy from Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go is an anthropomorphic rail speeder. == Gallery ==

File:Yeppoon.jpg|Former Queensland Rail (Australia) speeders File:Wickham trolley at Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre.jpg|A former UK MOD railway engineering personnel carrier (Wickham trolley) File:South Australian Railways -- Dort motor inspection car at Islington workshops, ca 1924.jpg|Dort tourer modified by the South Australian Railways in the 1920s to be a motor inspection car File:GAZ-13 Chaika draisine.jpg|Russian GAZ-13 Chaika car converted to a speeder, preserved at the Hungarian Railway Museum File:VW T1-BD 20-5031.JPG|Deutsche Bundesbahn speeder based on the Volkswagen Type 2 light commercial vehicle File:Metrotrolley.jpg|A battery-powered ultrasonic rail flaw detector trolley made at the Centre For Advanced Transport Engineering and Research, Western Australia == See also ==