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Rail Riding the High Desert - 1st Day's Adventure - Part 4 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Ride with us as we take our DIY electric railcart through the mountains of San Diego County. This is part 4 of 5.
Tennessee Pass - Full Adventure - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Come ride with us as we explore the old abandon "Rio Grande Line" Railroad crossing the Continental Divide. In this series of videos, you will see ten of us with 4 homemade rail carts, 2 with motors, 1 with a motor and peddle power combined, and 1 with peddle power only (which we towed with another rail cart when needed) tackling the 10,000 plus foot altitude in the Colorado High Mountains. Dur...
Rail Riding the High Desert - 1st Day's Adventure - Part 3 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Ride with us as we take our DIY electric railcart through the mountains of San Diego County. This is part 3 of 5.
Canyonlands - Driving the White Rim Road - Time Lapse - Full Adventure - The Rocket Scientist
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Canyonlands - Driving the White Rim Road - Time Lapse - Full Adventure - The Rocket Scientist
Rail Riding the High Desert - 1st Day's Adventure - Part 2 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Rail Riding the High Desert - 1st Day's Adventure - Part 2 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Rail-Biking the Impossible Railroad - Time Lapse - Full Adventure - The Rocket Scientist
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Rail-Biking the Impossible Railroad - Time Lapse - Full Adventure - The Rocket Scientist
Rail Riding the High Desert - 1st Day's Adventure - Part 1 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Rail Riding the High Desert - 1st Day's Adventure - Part 1 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 36 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 36 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Canyonlands - Exiting Park on Mineral Bottom Road - Full Adventure - The Rocket Scientist
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Canyonlands - Exiting Park on Mineral Bottom Road - Full Adventure - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 35 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 35 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 6 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 6 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 34 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 34 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 5 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 5 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 33 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 33 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 4 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 4 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 32 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 32 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 31 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 31 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 3 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 3 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 30 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 30 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 29 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 29 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 2 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 2 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 28 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 28 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 27 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 27 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Burial at Sea - U.S.S. Hull (DD945) - 1973 - 8mm - The Rocket Scientist
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Burial at Sea - U.S.S. Hull (DD945) - 1973 - 8mm - The Rocket Scientist
Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 1 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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Riding Speeders with my Friends - Part 1 - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 26 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 26 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
Tennessee Pass - Part 25 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
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Tennessee Pass - Part 25 - Railroad - Rail Cart - The Rocket Scientist
DIY Speeder - First Start Up - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
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DIY Speeder - First Start Up - Railroad - The Rocket Scientist
Stall Speed!
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Stall Speed!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @jayham1970
    @jayham1970 День тому

    How many miles was that particular trek?

  • @thomaschilds6386
    @thomaschilds6386 3 дні тому

    Looks like I’d be a lot of fun

  • @jayham1970
    @jayham1970 6 днів тому

    All that track is gone, now. I have never understood why a RR company would ever through good money after bad in order to pull up abandoned tracks.

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 3 дні тому

      They wanted to put the area back to once it was after using it for 80 years.. I commend them for that.

  • @jayham1970
    @jayham1970 6 днів тому

    I am pretty sure that all that land is managed by the BLM. Unless that land is on a military base, the military has no business trying to regulate who can come, go, and explore the land and abandoned tracks.

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 3 дні тому

      The military has land right next to the BLM land, or you can say the BLM has land right next to military land. It's a bombing range next to Bureau of Land Management land. It's been that way since World War II.

  • @CarlaWilliams-d6p
    @CarlaWilliams-d6p 8 днів тому

    Can you still ride the rail carts on Tennessee pass or is it closed? Can you let us know if any other tracks to go to. Thanks

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 7 днів тому

      All tracks are closed. Every time you see people ride, they are riding at the risk of getting caught for trespassing. The only legal place that I know of is Ely, Nevada. They have miles of track to ride on.

  • @anb7408
    @anb7408 13 днів тому

    Thanks to the climate, altitude and location, this line has survived far better than Saluda has. That grade is almost unrecognizable now and completely overgrown with trees and vegetation.

  • @HUNGUSind
    @HUNGUSind 15 днів тому

    Your design is simple yet beautiful…which is the very hardest art form to achieve. VERY WELL DONE!!! Looks like you were on the rail between Carrizo Gorge and Plaster City in SoCal.

  • @Rocket_Man232
    @Rocket_Man232 20 днів тому

    Sooo they were stopped from continuing in a direction that reached an area so sensitive that the U.S. couldn't be bothered to fence it off? 🤔 And WHY isn't there video shown of that trip and ensuing encounter? 🤔 Anyway they can just buy a next-door plot of land (like the Chinese communists have been allowed to do in various U.S. military areas) and look at all of the military stuff they want to, no problem! LOL 🤣

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 19 днів тому

      The military was armed and told us to turn off the camera.

    • @Rocket_Man232
      @Rocket_Man232 19 днів тому

      @@therocketscientist0000 But where is the video of THAT direction trip up to THAT point?

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 19 днів тому

      @@Rocket_Man232 We were approached by the military police while driving in to the "put-in" area. We didn't have our camera on during the drive in.

    • @Rocket_Man232
      @Rocket_Man232 19 днів тому

      @@therocketscientist0000 If where you were at the time was not on military land I recommend that you see a few videos here on Y/T about your 1st Amendment right to film in public ➡ Such a person is called a "First Amendment Auditor" 🇺🇸. BTW your trip was visually interesting, thanks for that tour of our beautiful country! 👍

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 19 днів тому

      @@Rocket_Man232 They were kind of intimating, we just didn't want to deal with them, so we took the rail cart on the other side.

  • @samiraliverdibekov2148
    @samiraliverdibekov2148 21 день тому

    Where it is?

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 20 днів тому

      San Diego county, the SD&AE railroad

    • @samiraliverdibekov2148
      @samiraliverdibekov2148 20 днів тому

      @@therocketscientist0000 Is it possible to do a drone survey of the entire site. From the known beginning to the known end. You could even start a new UA-cam feature like this. I'm sure people will like it .

  • @Thafunkycow
    @Thafunkycow 21 день тому

    Ok? Railway in a desert, nice job.

  • @robertmcdonnold3038
    @robertmcdonnold3038 21 день тому

    What and where are we looking at?

  • @jebaranidavid2217
    @jebaranidavid2217 25 днів тому

    From India. 1. Track looks neat and clean without weeds. 2. It would be ideal to have roof for your cart. Did not see even a single tree. 3. Form a group of travelers. 4. Attract more tourists to increase revenue.

  • @moparsquid
    @moparsquid 25 днів тому

    This was my first ship in the navy and my opinion the best.

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 24 дні тому

      This was my second ship. It was so hard to see her go down as target practice.

  • @AnthonyRea
    @AnthonyRea 25 днів тому

    Do we get to see your rail car? I'm so curious...

  • @baassbooster
    @baassbooster 25 днів тому

    The San Diego and Arizona Railway?

  • @ourv9603
    @ourv9603 25 днів тому

    A fellow on Californias north coast bolted on some DIY rail wheels to his old Jeep and drove his Jeep down some long deserted Rails. The cool thing was, when he had to portage he just lifted his rail wheels with a switch & drove around the obstruction in 4X4. Never having to get out of his seat. ALSO, he drove his Jeep on public roads from his home to the tracks. SWEET... !

  • @jbarsaloux8243
    @jbarsaloux8243 26 днів тому

    great video ..show us the cart and a little more of the surroundings looks like fun✌Jim from Canada

  • @carlshowalter9629
    @carlshowalter9629 Місяць тому

    Damn,that bush with the knarly spikes would have ripped ya up had you not trimmed it! Love these speedster trips,way cool!

  • @horsdevors4559
    @horsdevors4559 Місяць тому

    1 hour and 10+ minutes of an un-inspiring endless wasteland....

  • @user-bu2xg3ej3j
    @user-bu2xg3ej3j Місяць тому

    Can't you guys close engine com, doors I was enjoying the vid, till then .

  • @therocketscientist0000
    @therocketscientist0000 Місяць тому

    👍

  • @HimanshuSharma-dm8ol
    @HimanshuSharma-dm8ol Місяць тому

    Some day they repair this .

  • @rocsocom3166
    @rocsocom3166 Місяць тому

    That different hobby. out in the boonies. Looks like fun I could see why they do it, not the great scenery. got make faster.

  • @bobbg9041
    @bobbg9041 Місяць тому

    12:40 look down to the right you can see a wheel and part of the backend. On this frame

  • @bobbg9041
    @bobbg9041 Місяць тому

    12:29 there is a black corvette looks like 15' in frt of this view in all the thorn bushes looks like it has wire wheels on it, can't tell what year might be a stingray so I'd say 60s model.

  • @jaimegarcia9944
    @jaimegarcia9944 Місяць тому

    Why record backwards?

  • @Locoandchooch
    @Locoandchooch Місяць тому

    Guessing he’s never been down this far because you can’t get to where he wants to go. One of the tunnels is buried

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 Місяць тому

      We got all the way to the Goat Canyon Trestle way before the collapse of tunnel 16. This video was taken in 2016. We went all the way from Ocotillo to Jacumba Hot Springs with no problems. Nobody can do that now (2024).

  • @TF856
    @TF856 Місяць тому

    I will not subscribe unless you get a train whistle instead of that irritating horn!!!!

  • @TF856
    @TF856 Місяць тому

    I won't subscribe until he gets a whistle and gets rid of that irritating horn!!!

  • @startrekking359
    @startrekking359 Місяць тому

    That's the nicest one I've seen, one question, why didn't you put a small alternator and a wet cell driving off the motor or drive with an electric starter, that would be the cherry on top, lawnmower seat would be nice, don't get me wrong that thing is well engineered to the max,👍

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 Місяць тому

      This is an old video. As of now, I have gotten everything you have mention here.

  • @brucesorensen
    @brucesorensen Місяць тому

    The helmet cam is nausea inducing 😂

  • @cbpuzzle
    @cbpuzzle Місяць тому

    Nice teardown design. I will copy much of it. But all that stainless, welding and machining services are unnecessary. Hot rolled 3/4 steel rod is plenty strong for $25. Cut and shape aluminum with an angle grinder. Use rivnuts for threads. Use aluminum brazing rods to join. $800 for wheels is insane. Go kart aluminum hubs and wheels can be brazed to aluminum plate discs for flanges then polyurethane casting resin poured in a DIY PVC mold for less than $250. And the wheels can be stripped and remolded many times. Maybe pay someone to put the wheel taper on if you don't have a Lathe or don't want to make a basic wooden Lathe out of a cheap electric drill.

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 Місяць тому

      Sounds good, at the time of design and assembly i didn't want to do all of the work, do I jobbed it out. I used aluminum & stainless steel because I live next to the ocean and didn't want it to rust while in storage when not in use. You can't buy any better wheels on the market than the one's I used. Money wasn't any concern for me with this project

  • @MAGaBAMA_84
    @MAGaBAMA_84 Місяць тому

    The same type palms we have in middle to southern Alabama on down to north Florida. Not far from being a desert.

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 Місяць тому

      It's funny how the same palm trees can grow in two different locations so far apart.

    • @howardhughes7596
      @howardhughes7596 Місяць тому

      Arizona and western CA are home to a limited number of native palm trees.

  • @MAGaBAMA_84
    @MAGaBAMA_84 Місяць тому

    Love the wild desert palms. A little oasis. Wouldn't drink the water though 🌴 🏜

  • @1903A3shooter
    @1903A3shooter Місяць тому

    THAT IS AND WAS the ugliest place I have ever seen. Dave in VA,

  • @HimanshuSharma-dm8ol
    @HimanshuSharma-dm8ol Місяць тому

    No rust in california

  • @bazmurphy7792
    @bazmurphy7792 Місяць тому

    The shine on top of those tracks makes me think it is a well trodden path.

  • @compirate
    @compirate Місяць тому

    Do you ever do any track maintenance i.e. move rocks, clear brush or clear crossings so you don't have to stop?

  • @DH-sw6vg
    @DH-sw6vg Місяць тому

    How does one obtain a track warrant?

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 Місяць тому

      By going to the office of the Ely Railroad museum and asking for one.

  • @justincase5272
    @justincase5272 2 місяці тому

    Should have checked your topo.

  • @drewjohn108
    @drewjohn108 2 місяці тому

    If only you could reach 88 mph

  • @serhwa616
    @serhwa616 2 місяці тому

    낙석의 위험~

  • @BrettRoycroft
    @BrettRoycroft 2 місяці тому

    Where can I purchase 4 wheels please

  • @vandie9759
    @vandie9759 2 місяці тому

    A $5,000 self art??

  • @paulgrimm
    @paulgrimm 2 місяці тому

    Those rail carts look like fun on abandoned tracks

  • @victorbarreneche1326
    @victorbarreneche1326 2 місяці тому

    as an outsider looking in, I wonder if it would be a good idea to invent something to cut the brush in the tracks as you drive before it is so overgrown you cannot ride the rails? Maybe a trailer that you can pull behind your rail car that is built around a rotary mower or a lawn tractor mower deck ran off an engine at constant speed? You would only need t do it every few years probably? It may be a stupid idea but i would sure love to be able to see the track as I'm zooming along and not have to guess what's behind the brush

  • @user-ip7gw7pk7d
    @user-ip7gw7pk7d 2 місяці тому

    Riding that cart looks like a lot of fun but the lack of safety equipment seems like a huge risk.

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 2 місяці тому

      I've been doing this for many years without any issues. I'm the only one doing this on UA-cam that wears a helmet.

  • @user-ff9er4dl6g
    @user-ff9er4dl6g 2 місяці тому

    Why did I watch this? I was in the USAF from 1962 to 1966. In South Dakota. After that I became a hobo riding on freight trains Later I became a motorcycle mechanic. I finally settled down and became a schoolteacher. I love this video... Why?

    • @therocketscientist0000
      @therocketscientist0000 2 місяці тому

      Glad to give you a little blast from the past.

    • @Faronthefiddler
      @Faronthefiddler Місяць тому

      You are a well rounded capable man, with lots of grit. It is people like you, that make things happen from strength and goodness.

  • @BrownEyePinch
    @BrownEyePinch 2 місяці тому

    If your machine broke down, you going to walk back?

  • @secretdaisy6484
    @secretdaisy6484 2 місяці тому

    So you know the military is watching you from a high altitude drone, right? It’s comforting to know the government is watching all of us 🌎😬. Let’s see, a large piece of diamond plate steel, lawn mower engine, homemade lawn chairs and I have no idea where the wheels came from to fit those tracks. Bicycle 🚲 helmet ⛑️? Seriously? I think a motorcycle 🏍️ helmet and jacket with armor would make more sense. Just saying… 👍☮️🌞 Wait-there’s another set of railroads 🛤️ tracks in use a couple hundred yards away? What?