{"id":97,"date":"2013-09-20T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2013\/09\/handcarts-on-rails.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T22:00:06","slug":"handcarts-on-rails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/09\/handcarts-on-rails-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Handcarts on Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an even more efficient cargo vehicle than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2011\/12\/the-chinese-wheelbarrow.html\" target=\"_self\">Chinese wheelbarrow<\/a>? Try a handcart on rails. The light railway shown on the pictures below was built during the early 20th century in Ghana, then a British Colony called Gold Coast. The human powered railway was used for conveying cocoa from the factory in Akuse to the river barges on the Valta river.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1351 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails.jpg\" alt=\"hand carts on rails\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails-500x312.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1352 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails-2.jpg\" alt=\"hand carts on rails 2\" width=\"700\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hand-carts-on-rails-2-500x307.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrailhistory.info\/r139.html\" target=\"_blank\">EngRailHistory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an even more efficient cargo vehicle than a Chinese wheelbarrow? Try a handcart on rails. The light railway shown on the pictures below was built during the early 20th century in Ghana, then a British Colony called Gold Coast. The human powered railway was used for conveying cocoa from the factory in Akuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,315,28,75,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}