A handrail for a railroad vehicle is disposed in a cabin of a vehicle body of the railroad vehicle. The handrail includes a handrail body whose inside serves as a filling space and a filler having fluidity and filling the filling space. The handrail body includes an opening to be used in supplying the filler to the filling space and a plug that opens and closes the opening.

A system for assisting a user with navigating a set of stairs includes a pulley system positioned adjacent to the stairs, the pulley system including a first pulley, a second pulley, and an elongated member coupled to and looped around the first pulley and the second pulley. The system further includes a motor coupled to the first pulley, a sensing assembly operatively coupled to the pulley system, the sensing assembly being structured and configured to sense that a force is being applied to or that is about to be applied to the elongated member by the user, and a controller coupled to the motor and the sensing assembly. The controller is structured and configured to, responsive to the sensing assembly sensing the force, turn the motor on to drive the first pulley.