wagons
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Abolitionist Charles Turner Torrey and his colleagues rented horses and wagons and often transported as many as 15 or 20 slaves at a time. citation Routes were often purposely indirect to confuse pursuers.
Accidental shootings declined significantly after Fort Laramie, as people became more familiar with their weapons and often just left them in their wagons.
Accompanying wagons carried more food and supplies.
A certain column under Horace Smith-Dorrien proceeded all the way to the Swaziland border, managing to capture several Boer wagons and large numbers of cattle and sheep on February 9, 1901.
After abandoning their wagons, they eventually were able to hike out of the valley.
After World War II, in an attempt to overcome the difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a bogie exchange device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets.