Our new touring handcar was displayed at Cal Poly Pomona. Hundreds of students, staff, and industry representatives stopped by to look at the handcar. The university featured the handcar on their Instagram account. Design work on this handcar had begun a year earlier after testing of an earlier prototype did…
Over the years the Clark family enjoyed a number of vacations riding aboard Mason’s handcars in California and Nevada. Most families go to Disneyland. Not the Clark family. We spent our vacations riding handcars across various railroads. Mom’s name is Donnalee and she enjoyed the all day family experience. …
Mason is 22 years old, but he has been manufacturing handcars since he was twelve. Building these machines is not a trivial exercise. Handcars have complicated wood joints and contain numerous metal components that need to be fabricated from raw steel. Mason taught himself the wood working and machining skills…
