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A draisine is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure. The eponymous term is derived from German Baron Karl Christian Ludwig Drais von Sauerbronn, who invented his ''Laufmaschine'' (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called ''Draisine'' (German) or ''Draisienne'' (French) by the press. It is the first reliable claim for a practically used bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine commonly called a velocipede, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/cycles3.cfm )〕 Later, the name draisine came to be applied only to versions used on rails and was extended to similar vehicles, even when not human-powered. Because of their low weight and small size, they can be put on and taken off the rails at any place, allowing trains to pass. In the United States, motor-powered draisines are known as speeders while human-powered ones are referred as handcars. Vehicles that can be driven on both the highway and the rail line are called hy-rails, or more properly, road-rail vehicles. == Dressin, velorail, trolley, or railbike == "Draisine" is called ''dressin'' in Swedish, ''dresin'' in Norwegian, ''dræsine'' in Danish, and ''resiina'' in Finnish. Usually, ''dressin'' refers to pedal-powered rail-cycles which were used by railroad maintenance workers in Finland, Sweden, and Norway until about 1950, as handcars were elsewhere. Now draisines are used for recreation on several unused railway lines in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Poland, some other European countries and South Korea.〔asiaenglish.visitkorea.or.kr/ena/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=626406 |accessdate=2014.09.01〕 Several companies rent draisines in Sweden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/muscle-power-draisine-travel )〕 In Finland, an annual competition ''Resiina-ralli'' (translates "Draisine Rally") involves several draisine teams travelling many days on the railways from one corner of the country to another. The rally is televised and is popular with TV viewers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Draisine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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