Those tie plates at still used today, this rail is known as "light rail" meaning its under 100LBS per yard and that means the rail is smaller so it needs a smaller plate. Also at 3:50 what looks like a spike is a piece of metal which was put in-between rail joints for a smoother ride, it could be manganese. And those letters and words on that piece of granite could have been the bridge builder or quarry they came from.
Boy we used to have a track that went right on the edge of the farm. It was a rock island line and we even had a small bridge on the track that went by the farm. It was taken out in the mid 80s a lot before I was born and all that's there now is remnants of that old bridge lots of ties and some rail. It would make me so happy if they would rebuild it so I could see it .
here in southern Ontario moast all the old railroad tracks are used for quad trails. there are some impressive Trestles, especially the one that goes over our grand river on Cayuga
Wes that is a heavy bridge in that it's 4 girders with no overhead support, we still use a lot bridges like that, the hot rivets are a dead give away that it's old and the track plates are a lot smaller than what we put in today but we still see a lot of them in older rail yards, but not on mainline track. Who ever owns the line is keeping the option of reactivating it because otherwise the rails would have been torn up. All our old ties In Jersey go down south where they chip them and burn them to make electricity.
I don't honestly know I am a mechanic for the track department and maintain the equipment that builds and maintains the track & bridges, to me they are all bridges :)
The date stamp on rail road ties is a nail head about a half inch in diameter. It will be a 2 digit number being the last two digits of the year they were installed. So a 44 nail head would have been 1944 (if you found a nail head with 44 in the tie).
That was a good video. In Florida/South Georgia there are many rail roads that have been abandoned. Some over the rivers and creeks are still there and offer a history.
We've got a few ghost rail lines in Southern NJ as well. One line used to go right through the center of my town to a warehouse where my grandfather used to pack squash and zucchini. It was put out of service in 1960.
You're right. That spot is just off 202. The Alexauken can really roar after a good storm. That bridge offers a cool vantage point. The rail road extends all the way to Flemington via Ringoes. Part of it is still active and you can ride some of the oldest cars around. I think they still have a steam locomotive. Black River & Western Railroad is their name.
possibly an old private siding for the previous farmer, or it could go to some old factory/plant, hard to say though without location and researching. lots of low speed siding/spur tracks were built old style for cost effectiveness :)
Rail is classified as pounds per yard. For instance, old narrow gauge lines might use 75-pound or lighter rail. Main lines are on the order of 135-pounds. They may use different designations now.
1411 might mean 14th day of the eleventh month (November). Or 1411 might be an identification number for the trestle. Interesting video. I've always been fond of the railroads and enjoyed walking the tracks where they go through wilderness areas. These days the railroads have become paranoid about trespassing and they will prosecute. Don't even THINK about getting a piece of rail from a track that's in place. If you want that type rail, you might make some inquiries with companies that service large overhead cranes. They might sell you a scrap piece.
Or check around for rail salvage places... there's a place not too far from here called R&R Railroad Materials. They sell old ties graded by how bad off they are, and they sell rails and stuff as well. They have MASSIVE stacks of old plates and spikes that are just scrapped I guess. Funny thing is, a lot of old rails end up going to make T-posts, which are used to fence farmer's and rancher's fields... Later! OL J R :)
You mentioned the creosote cross ties and it reminded me that there was a company in my home town Augusta, GA called Southern Wood Piedmont. They creosoted power poles and cross ties until the late 70s because the EPA shut them down claiming they messed up the ground water in the area. They even made the City of Augusta buy a nearby neighborhood because of the contamination.
NOTHING preserves wood as well as creosote... NOTHING! We bought a bunch of old RR ties and used them as HD posts to build cattle corrals... they're about half the price of a big "treated" pine corner post and will last 10X longer. Even the old arsenic pressure treated lumber isn't as good as creosote... and this stuff they use now ("Yellawood" or whatever) is an absolute JOKE for anything in contact with the ground (let alone IN the ground!) When we were fencing the place, there was a big ol' 10 inch corner post that the phone company had set in the fence as a backing for one of their junction boxes... they had just replaced it a year or so before they came through and redid all the lines, and when they did, they pulled their junction box off the post and just left the post there. When we were fencing, since it was in the fenceline, I was going to use it for a line post-- I reached out to test it and wiggled it, and it just flopped every which way WITH ONE HAND! It was obviously useless for a fence post, so we decided to pull it out of the fence and put a new one in its place. We wrapped a chain around it and pulled it out with the front end loader on the tractor and were AMAZED to find that this post, maybe 5-8 years old, had rotted down to a little core about maybe an inch or two in diameter and was soft as a noodle... NO WONDER it flopped around like a wet dishrag! The power company came through here about 4 years ago and put all new taller poles in; all were some sort of "Yellawood" type treated posts. They wrapped them in hardware cloth to keep the woodpeckers from absolutely eating them up. (Woodpeckers usually stay away from creosote poles unless the they get really old and the creosote all washes out of the top several feet of the pole, then they'll start pecking them and hollowing them out). They put in a new pipeline station about a mile away and ran an all-new 3 phase power line down to it, and put in the same style "treated" poles. Last year, they ripped ALL those poles out and replaced them with CREOSOTE. While there's only a handful of companies in the US making creosote lumber anymore (they've been regulated practically out of existence) I heard from a guy that works for the power company that they buy all their creosote poles from MEXICO now since they can't get US made creosote poles, and the stupid "eco-friendly" non-aresenic treatments (which are illegal now) simply DO NOT HOLD UP. The railroads are slowly switching over to all-concrete ties. They reopened a line that had been shut down for the last 30 years a couple of years ago and completely redid it, and installed a humping yard, all made out of concrete ties. Later! OL J R :)
You are right luke! The treated timbers, land scape timbers and everything that is called "treated" is no good and has a life expectancy that doesn't even to be mentioned relative to stuff that was creosoted the old way. If you buy that junk today you might as well plan to replace it in a very few years.
It's probably 85 or 100 lb rail. It's not unusual to find branch lines with rails over 100 years old. Removing rails even if the line appears to be abandoned is a federal offense. In these post 9/11 days, the railroads and law enforcement take trespassing and theft very seriously. Actually that track doesn't look that bad. As long as every 5th tie is good, the track can be used by non-hazardous freight at no more than 10 mph. A lot of old rail lines are being put back in service.
Bill Moran to be accepted track it only has to have minimum gauge measurement , no passenger service and it can have hazmat but only 2 cars maximum per train, my fra book is at work so can't quote it exactly
Start looking for pole stumps about 15-20 feet off either side and go digging/raking. Bet you'll turn up some really old insulators, possibly threadless, too if the line's old enough. And bits of rusty iron code line wire, also.
Wes they do still use the steel plate that you pointed out usually the multi hole ones here in Canada anyway. if you look on the sides of the rails it will give you a date of mfg and the weight per foot. A Great find always nice to find old stuff like that.
Weight per yard is stamped on the rail and where it was made and which month by ///// marks each / is one month. ///////1986 would be July 1986 and in might say CF&I or Bethlehem 119 or 90 which would be 119 pound rail per yard And yes they still use tie plates like those just wider now
the spike in the middle is to make continuity between the rails for the signals. They run a current through the rails so they know if there might be a break in the rails and will set a red signal.
I'm awesome line wes! I went to check out the old railroad that goes through the pine Barron's and the old paper mills! such a cool place and a little creepy!
Yea hard guessing the truth on bent bridge, a derailment could've done it too. Might be some historical types could tell you something. Most railways never get truly abandoned, they always keep the right of way unless it's returned by deed to an adjacent owner. I've heard of scrap thieves getting real jail time from places just like that. My understanding is that they always want to keep the right of ways just in case someday comes they want to use it again. Even if it had to be completely rebuilt. But if you did have right to it, there's some money laying there for sure!
Line is clear south to Hamp Road and that's where the restoration stopped. Black River & Western sometimes parks stored cars between there and Ringoes.
Nice video Wes, usually when an industry or freight travel halts they just level the line there and take what they want. Also when you said make a small rail cart I am going to make one of those this summer and test it. I already have one made and put a 1 horsepower electric motor on it. Also will be making small metal train wheels this summer and selling them so come to my chance this summer and find out or get them.
if that's the line I think it is last customer closed around 1993 so no trains. has been embargoed but not officially abandoned so that's why rails still in place.
Should build yourself a rail kart go kart find some old rail wheels and fasten them to a go kart frame and go riding the tracks take some Clippers to clear brush that would be a fun thing to kill time ona cool summer day
a approximate date could be found on the side of the rails, they are dated as to when manufactured. They are very old due to the type of connections holding them together.
every RR crossing has a assigned number. I am surprised that the RR left all of that iron there, they usually come in a salvage the rails and the iron from the bridge. Some old rail lines here have been taken over by recreation trail groups. The bridges are left intact for bicycles walking atv and snowmobile use . Obviously that one isnt being used for that
May want to check the rail road ties for any Date nails, they have a large flat head with the year laid or repaired face up somewhere in middle of tie , would need to check more than on tie
The truss could have been bent during delivery or installation. Most trusses are built off site and then craned in place. Or another theory is that a mounted loader (like a track hoe) was digging debris away from up on the track and caught the lip with the boom or bucket.
Amazing video Wes, it was a nice change from the norm, showing where you live and you can actually hear how proud you are of where you live, keep it up m8 looking forward to the next video already :)
Do you let beekeepers keep bee hives on some of your properties and do you try to be bee friend when you spray chemicals not around the blooming time of flowers Some of these farms you show look like good places for bees if you have clover or flowers near your fields
AFAIK all he's spraying is fertilizer and herbicides... those don't bother the bees any. Never heard him say anything about spraying insecticides, which is what could potentially be tough on the bees in the field... Later! OL J R :)
If this is Yours watch out, the adjoining closed railroad at my parents place went for sale so they bought it like 15 years ago now some bleeding heart club Tracks to trails want to take it from them so folks can go walking. SURE like everyone else will go on it too then we can have quads running down the fields too.
This branch of the railroad is right near a very long Canal & RR path that are a park. I don't think this branch is at risk for several reasons, the main being it has several long stream crossings in rough shape and doesn't really pass by anything for many miles.
Yeah they did the same thing (rails to trails) crap south from Rochester, Indiana to Peru, Indiana. Even paved the flippin' trail. They don't allow offroad vehicles though (no 4 wheelers, dirt bikes, etc) and it PO'd a lot of people because the RR took that land from the locals with the provision that it either revert back to the original landowners when the RR was done with it, or the local landowners get first dibs on buying it back, which didn't happen. Good fences make good neighbors... LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
Shame it's not cleaned up for a railroad "cart" tracks... There's a lot of people now who either buy old track inspection cars or build their own (I've even seen bicycles converted to run on tracks for folks who like pedal power vs. gasoline) and run down abandoned tracks for kicks on a Sunday afternoon... sounds like fun! This would apparently be a good candidate for such a club or group-- so long as the tracks are intact, (doesn't take much to support an inspection car) the brush and stuff isn't too overgrown-- nothing that some Remedy and diesel basal bark treatments wouldn't permanently cure (or a chainsaw in the short term). Touch up with Roundup from time to time to keep the weeds and bushes off the tracks and voila, there ya go. Railroad could even take it back if they ever decided to use it again. There's some tracks near my BIL's place in Indiana... very picturesque. They push cars down it a couple times a year to store cars near town; otherwise the tracks are unused. Later! OL J R :)
their is an old track like that in the river bottoms and their is an ole slue hole way back i fish... the road grew over 40 years ago so their is no way back other than the tracks... i let the tire pressure in my jeep tires down to 15 psi and i drive the old rails all the way back... you dont even have to hold the stearing wheel it will follow the rails perfectly but i only go 5 mph... oddly enough where they stopped taking the track up its nice and flat and i have a way of turning around... the old rail road bed is privately owned now by a farmer so im not commiting a felony... anyway that trussel you crossed i take my jeep over one just like it... I have permanent ass marks in my seat from crossing that damn trussel...
wes, just wanted to ask whatever happened about that pipeline thing that no one wanted? and did it get chucked out or did thay run it somewhere else? thanks wes....
Last I heard the PennEast Pipeline was approved at the federal level but the NJ DEP refuses to review the application and landowners aren't selling easements. Here's hoping we win out.
When u say sticker bush are they like rose thorns what we call brambles and give fruit ? Also are u going to grow maize or corn this year ares is in the ground just coming up Devon England ?
That maybe part of the old CNJ rail line I red about that they were going to reopen. Who knows they have passenger trains go by and watch you making hay ! LOL Could happen ? Bandit
that barbed wire might be like that from the coal trains. as at a farm i work on the barbed wire turned like that because of the smog. there was a hospital behind it that used 20tonne of coal a week to heat the place.
wow that is old man I was guessing the twenties but I was off pretty damn cool though hey man I'm glad you picked up some more ground your big time brother
You used to have to have a letter stating ownership of a section of rail. Not sure if that's still true today. Not really good anvils, guess it's better than a rock. Section of forklift load arm works better.
Flood water and a log coming downstream would possibly dent that. Or possibly the device that they use to remove timber from the creek the bed of a train car could have done it.
bc65925 it could have been bent during delivery or installation. Most trusses are built off site and then craned in place. Or another theory is that a mounted loader (like a track hoe) was digging debris away from up on the track and caught the lip with the boom or bucket.
Exploring is always fun!
The good old days when people would mark finished projects with pride. Now days its build it and run
I bet the last train across that bridge was steam powered!
Those tie plates at still used today, this rail is known as "light rail" meaning its under 100LBS per yard and that means the rail is smaller so it needs a smaller plate. Also at 3:50 what looks like a spike is a piece of metal which was put in-between rail joints for a smoother ride, it could be manganese. And those letters and words on that piece of granite could have been the bridge builder or quarry they came from.
Boy we used to have a track that went right on the edge of the farm. It was a rock island line and we even had a small bridge on the track that went by the farm. It was taken out in the mid 80s a lot before I was born and all that's there now is remnants of that old bridge lots of ties and some rail. It would make me so happy if they would rebuild it so I could see it .
here in southern Ontario moast all the old railroad tracks are used for quad trails. there are some impressive Trestles, especially the one that goes over our grand river on Cayuga
I'm from southern Ontario Also!
Yes they are used for quad trails, but are meant for walking trails. lol They keep blocking all the entrances.
Ontario guy too!
I'm from there too!
Muddy Springs where's abouts?
Is this cool or what! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Wes that is a heavy bridge in that it's 4 girders with no overhead support, we still use a lot bridges like that, the hot rivets are a dead give away that it's old and the track plates are a lot smaller than what we put in today but we still see a lot of them in older rail yards, but not on mainline track. Who ever owns the line is keeping the option of reactivating it because otherwise the rails would have been torn up. All our old ties In Jersey go down south where they chip them and burn them to make electricity.
tim would this be classified as a bridge and not a tressel ?
I don't honestly know I am a mechanic for the track department and maintain the equipment that builds and maintains the track & bridges, to me they are all bridges :)
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That's a cool old fence, I've never seen one that old with spiral wire, some collector might want a piece
The date stamp on rail road ties is a nail head about a half inch in diameter. It will be a 2 digit number being the last two digits of the year they were installed. So a 44 nail head would have been 1944 (if you found a nail head with 44 in the tie).
That was a good video. In Florida/South Georgia there are many rail roads that have been abandoned. Some over the rivers and creeks are still there and offer a history.
We've got a few ghost rail lines in Southern NJ as well. One line used to go right through the center of my town to a warehouse where my grandfather used to pack squash and zucchini. It was put out of service in 1960.
MichaelTJD60 explored the train line that is in the pineys that went down to actually! was awesome sight
Cool! There are still a few lines left in the Pine Barrens that I've found.
Very nice again Wes ghost railroad, very old railroad bridge right Tim 😲😲😲😲😲😲😛😂😛😂😛😂😛
I think the bridge was possibly damaged during a flood by a tree
BareFoot Ralph that's what I was thinking lol
You're right. That spot is just off 202. The Alexauken can really roar after a good storm. That bridge offers a cool vantage point. The rail road extends all the way to Flemington via Ringoes. Part of it is still active and you can ride some of the oldest cars around. I think they still have a steam locomotive. Black River & Western Railroad is their name.
possibly an old private siding for the previous farmer, or it could go to some old factory/plant, hard to say though without location and researching.
lots of low speed siding/spur tracks were built old style for cost effectiveness :)
Rail is classified as pounds per yard. For instance, old narrow gauge lines might use 75-pound or lighter rail. Main lines are on the order of 135-pounds. They may use different designations now.
1411 might mean 14th day of the eleventh month (November).
Or 1411 might be an identification number for the trestle.
Interesting video. I've always been fond of the railroads and enjoyed walking the tracks where they go through wilderness areas. These days the railroads have become paranoid about trespassing and they will prosecute. Don't even THINK about getting a piece of rail from a track that's in place.
If you want that type rail, you might make some inquiries with companies that service large overhead cranes. They might sell you a scrap piece.
Or check around for rail salvage places... there's a place not too far from here called R&R Railroad Materials. They sell old ties graded by how bad off they are, and they sell rails and stuff as well. They have MASSIVE stacks of old plates and spikes that are just scrapped I guess.
Funny thing is, a lot of old rails end up going to make T-posts, which are used to fence farmer's and rancher's fields...
Later! OL J R :)
You mentioned the creosote cross ties and it reminded me that there was a company in my home town Augusta, GA called Southern Wood Piedmont. They creosoted power poles and cross ties until the late 70s because the EPA shut them down claiming they messed up the ground water in the area. They even made the City of Augusta buy a nearby neighborhood because of the contamination.
NOTHING preserves wood as well as creosote... NOTHING!
We bought a bunch of old RR ties and used them as HD posts to build cattle corrals... they're about half the price of a big "treated" pine corner post and will last 10X longer.
Even the old arsenic pressure treated lumber isn't as good as creosote... and this stuff they use now ("Yellawood" or whatever) is an absolute JOKE for anything in contact with the ground (let alone IN the ground!)
When we were fencing the place, there was a big ol' 10 inch corner post that the phone company had set in the fence as a backing for one of their junction boxes... they had just replaced it a year or so before they came through and redid all the lines, and when they did, they pulled their junction box off the post and just left the post there. When we were fencing, since it was in the fenceline, I was going to use it for a line post-- I reached out to test it and wiggled it, and it just flopped every which way WITH ONE HAND! It was obviously useless for a fence post, so we decided to pull it out of the fence and put a new one in its place. We wrapped a chain around it and pulled it out with the front end loader on the tractor and were AMAZED to find that this post, maybe 5-8 years old, had rotted down to a little core about maybe an inch or two in diameter and was soft as a noodle... NO WONDER it flopped around like a wet dishrag!
The power company came through here about 4 years ago and put all new taller poles in; all were some sort of "Yellawood" type treated posts. They wrapped them in hardware cloth to keep the woodpeckers from absolutely eating them up. (Woodpeckers usually stay away from creosote poles unless the they get really old and the creosote all washes out of the top several feet of the pole, then they'll start pecking them and hollowing them out). They put in a new pipeline station about a mile away and ran an all-new 3 phase power line down to it, and put in the same style "treated" poles.
Last year, they ripped ALL those poles out and replaced them with CREOSOTE. While there's only a handful of companies in the US making creosote lumber anymore (they've been regulated practically out of existence) I heard from a guy that works for the power company that they buy all their creosote poles from MEXICO now since they can't get US made creosote poles, and the stupid "eco-friendly" non-aresenic treatments (which are illegal now) simply DO NOT HOLD UP.
The railroads are slowly switching over to all-concrete ties. They reopened a line that had been shut down for the last 30 years a couple of years ago and completely redid it, and installed a humping yard, all made out of concrete ties.
Later! OL J R :)
You are right luke! The treated timbers, land scape timbers and everything that is called "treated" is no good and has a life expectancy that doesn't even to be mentioned relative to stuff that was creosoted the old way. If you buy that junk today you might as well plan to replace it in a very few years.
Very interesting segment. There must be a lot of local history connected to that rail line.
tie plates are still used, just not on big railroads, most big railroads use concrete tie and tie clips to join the rail to the tie
It's probably 85 or 100 lb rail. It's not unusual to find branch lines with rails over 100 years old. Removing rails even if the line appears to be abandoned is a federal offense. In these post 9/11 days, the railroads and law enforcement take trespassing and theft very seriously.
Actually that track doesn't look that bad. As long as every 5th tie is good, the track can be used by non-hazardous freight at no more than 10 mph. A lot of old rail lines are being put back in service.
Bill Moran to be accepted track it only has to have minimum gauge measurement , no passenger service and it can have hazmat but only 2 cars maximum per train, my fra book is at work so can't quote it exactly
I have gotten several like this they never even know it's gone!
Also after 20 years being abandoned and no use it goes back to the land owner!
Start looking for pole stumps about 15-20 feet off either side and go digging/raking. Bet you'll turn up some really old insulators, possibly threadless, too if the line's old enough. And bits of rusty iron code line wire, also.
Wes they do still use the steel plate that you pointed out usually the multi hole ones here in Canada anyway.
if you look on the sides of the rails it will give you a date of mfg and the weight per foot. A Great find always nice to find old stuff like that.
Weight per yard is stamped on the rail and where it was made and which month by ///// marks each / is one month.
///////1986 would be July 1986 and in might say CF&I or Bethlehem 119 or 90 which would be 119 pound rail per yard
And yes they still use tie plates like those just wider now
canvids1 weight is by yard.
railroads and trains are so awesome
Time to put trainwheels on the 8120. I whoud run like a train 😀
They have wheels for pickups and light heavy equipment which hook up to hydraulics and fold down to let the machine go on the tracks.
J Gök we call those, hi rails
That's super cool thanks for sharing. My dad was a railroader for 43 years he really enjoyed this video
Dad said 1411 is possibly the mile marker
Great video, it's neat to come across stuff like that. Thank you for sharing!
the spike in the middle is to make continuity between the rails for the signals. They run a current through the rails so they know if there might be a break in the rails and will set a red signal.
Dent ? - think, spring floods + giant trees.
agreed
I'm awesome line wes! I went to check out the old railroad that goes through the pine Barron's and the old paper mills! such a cool place and a little creepy!
Yea hard guessing the truth on bent bridge, a derailment could've done it too. Might be some historical types could tell you something. Most railways never get truly abandoned, they always keep the right of way unless it's returned by deed to an adjacent owner. I've heard of scrap thieves getting real jail time from places just like that. My understanding is that they always want to keep the right of ways just in case someday comes they want to use it again. Even if it had to be completely rebuilt. But if you did have right to it, there's some money laying there for sure!
Maybe a snow boarder bumped his head so they graffiti'd it. Thanks for taking the time to show us the rails and bridge Wes. ATB
Line is clear south to Hamp Road and that's where the restoration stopped. Black River & Western sometimes parks stored cars between there and Ringoes.
i will take a ride to see if it does stop there..
By the size of the bridge I would guess the creek used to be a lot bigger in the past!
Nice video Wes, usually when an industry or freight travel halts they just level the line there and take what they want. Also when you said make a small rail cart I am going to make one of those this summer and test it. I already have one made and put a 1 horsepower electric motor on it. Also will be making small metal train wheels this summer and selling them so come to my chance this summer and find out or get them.
if that's the line I think it is last customer closed around 1993 so no trains. has been embargoed but not officially abandoned so that's why rails still in place.
Should build yourself a rail kart go kart find some old rail wheels and fasten them to a go kart frame and go riding the tracks take some Clippers to clear brush that would be a fun thing to kill time ona cool summer day
_Any good fishin' down there in that creek?_
*Have a good'nnn*
a approximate date could be found on the side of the rails, they are dated as to when manufactured. They are very old due to the type of connections holding them together.
That old wire could be pricey collectors item for sure.
the barb wire museum in ks would love some of that!
Same type of tracks as I grew up with and walked in Omaha! Yeah we hopped the trains also!
every RR crossing has a assigned number. I am surprised that the RR left all of that iron there, they usually come in a salvage the rails and the iron from the bridge. Some old rail lines here have been taken over by recreation trail groups. The bridges are left intact for bicycles walking atv and snowmobile use . Obviously that one isnt being used for that
looks like a nice fishing spot
I'm thinking turn of the century, 1900 or so. There may have been an earlier bridge there but the cement and stone work is around 1900.
I like some of your ideas a lawn chair on a rocket ship and some train Wheels
May want to check the rail road ties for any Date nails, they have a large flat head with the year laid or repaired face up somewhere in middle of tie , would need to check more than on tie
The truss could have been bent during delivery or installation. Most trusses are built off site and then craned in place. Or another theory is that a mounted loader (like a track hoe) was digging debris away from up on the track and caught the lip with the boom or bucket.
Very cool, I love old things like that. Any way you could find out some history about the Railroad? ...I'm not even a train enthusiast.
the bridge piers are old but the girder part may have been removed from another line and reused there.
They just decommissioned a spur not a mile from my house in Ga, kids thought it was the coolest thing to walk the old tracks
Amazing video Wes, it was a nice change from the norm, showing where you live and you can actually hear how proud you are of where you live, keep it up m8 looking forward to the next video already :)
Do you let beekeepers keep bee hives on some of your properties and do you try to be bee friend when you spray chemicals not around the blooming time of flowers
Some of these farms you show look like good places for bees if you have clover or flowers near your fields
AFAIK all he's spraying is fertilizer and herbicides... those don't bother the bees any.
Never heard him say anything about spraying insecticides, which is what could potentially be tough on the bees in the field...
Later! OL J R :)
If this is Yours watch out, the adjoining closed railroad at my parents place went for sale so they bought it like 15 years ago now some bleeding heart club Tracks to trails want to take it from them so folks can go walking. SURE like everyone else will go on it too then we can have quads running down the fields too.
Keith D same thing is happening 5 minutes from where I live
This branch of the railroad is right near a very long Canal & RR path that are a park. I don't think this branch is at risk for several reasons, the main being it has several long stream crossings in rough shape and doesn't really pass by anything for many miles.
Yeah they did the same thing (rails to trails) crap south from Rochester, Indiana to Peru, Indiana. Even paved the flippin' trail. They don't allow offroad vehicles though (no 4 wheelers, dirt bikes, etc) and it PO'd a lot of people because the RR took that land from the locals with the provision that it either revert back to the original landowners when the RR was done with it, or the local landowners get first dibs on buying it back, which didn't happen.
Good fences make good neighbors... LOL:)
Later! OL J R :)
Shame it's not cleaned up for a railroad "cart" tracks...
There's a lot of people now who either buy old track inspection cars or build their own (I've even seen bicycles converted to run on tracks for folks who like pedal power vs. gasoline) and run down abandoned tracks for kicks on a Sunday afternoon... sounds like fun! This would apparently be a good candidate for such a club or group-- so long as the tracks are intact, (doesn't take much to support an inspection car) the brush and stuff isn't too overgrown-- nothing that some Remedy and diesel basal bark treatments wouldn't permanently cure (or a chainsaw in the short term). Touch up with Roundup from time to time to keep the weeds and bushes off the tracks and voila, there ya go. Railroad could even take it back if they ever decided to use it again.
There's some tracks near my BIL's place in Indiana... very picturesque. They push cars down it a couple times a year to store cars near town; otherwise the tracks are unused.
Later! OL J R :)
that line belongs to Black River & Western RR, I would think the 14.11 might be a mile marker
The wire is called Ribbon wire, was made with no barbs, so would not harm animals.
any idea where it comes from or goes to just curious??....
@4:26.. Thumbs up to a rocket rail cart Wes!! lol.
their is an old track like that in the river bottoms and their is an ole slue hole way back i fish... the road grew over 40 years ago so their is no way back other than the tracks... i let the tire pressure in my jeep tires down to 15 psi and i drive the old rails all the way back... you dont even have to hold the stearing wheel it will follow the rails perfectly but i only go 5 mph... oddly enough where they stopped taking the track up its nice and flat and i have a way of turning around... the old rail road bed is privately owned now by a farmer so im not commiting a felony... anyway that trussel you crossed i take my jeep over one just like it... I have permanent ass marks in my seat from crossing that damn trussel...
if thst was in ireland. the sleepers, rails and fence would be long gone.. the bridge would be lucky to be still there.. long slavaged
wes, just wanted to ask whatever happened about that pipeline thing that no one wanted? and did it get chucked out or did thay run it somewhere else? thanks wes....
Last I heard the PennEast Pipeline was approved at the federal level but the NJ DEP refuses to review the application and landowners aren't selling easements. Here's hoping we win out.
me too
Awesome i love stuff love that...
When u say sticker bush are they like rose thorns what we call brambles and give fruit ? Also are u going to grow maize or corn this year ares is in the ground just coming up Devon England ?
Mostly what's there is multiflora rose and dewberry vine (aka shinripper). Also Russian olives but they don't have thorns.
That maybe part of the old CNJ rail line I red about that they were going to reopen. Who knows they have passenger trains go by and watch you making hay ! LOL Could happen ? Bandit
We used railroad ties for fence posts.
like a lot of bigfoot videos ive watched recently ha ha , thanks for sharing wes , great video mate .
that barbed wire might be like that from the coal trains. as at a farm i work on the barbed wire turned like that because of the smog. there was a hospital behind it that used 20tonne of coal a week to heat the place.
Thank you for the video
Wes someone must have jumped up and hit there head on that old bridge causing the dent lol, looks like some good turkey hunting country?
Wes the bend is likely caused by a hunk of ice in the winter water flow
wow that is old man I was guessing the twenties but I was off pretty damn cool though hey man I'm glad you picked up some more ground your big time brother
I'm scared, you and Tim trying out a fast rail car, on those tracks, no more butt crack. 😉😉
You have plenty of scrap steel!
Must be part of the old Ringo's steam line
that would be a cool spot to do some metal detecting.
Very interesting
You used to have to have a letter stating ownership of a section of rail. Not sure if that's still true today. Not really good anvils, guess it's better than a rock. Section of forklift load arm works better.
That rail has a really high pitched ring to it when beat on. Doggone stuff will just about deafen you without ear protection.
cool find be fun to walk it
Flood water and a log coming downstream would possibly dent that. Or possibly the device that they use to remove timber from the creek the bed of a train car could have done it.
water flows from the other direction..
Well then there's only two possibilities, Global Climate Change or Russia.
bc65925 it could have been bent during delivery or installation. Most trusses are built off site and then craned in place. Or another theory is that a mounted loader (like a track hoe) was digging debris away from up on the track and caught the lip with the boom or bucket.
Bush did it !!! ..................B. H. O.
thanks for the video wes
Coordinates of bridge: 40.394833, -74.932903
You can when and where the rail was made and count the slashes and that will tell what month.
good scrap steel their!
Good steel for scrap iron!
Peewee.31 lol PRISON!
Reputable scrap dealers will not buy rails without a verifiable letter of authorization from the railroad. Man hole covers are taboo also.
the bridge was is possibly from the properly from the 1800 hundreds from stem engines or coal you should make a rail car
Is this place where Dwight Schrute took Michael Scott for survival training?
There should be a date on the side of the rail.
It looks like a date like 11-14-1895
They don't use rail like that anymore either brother
free the tracks and build a small train for it :D
you should keep us updated on it
1895 thats cool!
Date the rail was rolled at the factory should be on the side of the rail. Date nails in the ties give the date that tie was installed.
wonder if there's a date somewhere in the stonework.
oh, you found it. I should have watched the whole thing.
Flood big log probably bent the bridge maybe
that's interesting stuff
Wes had had a couple questions for you..... I can't find your email when I ordered some stuff from you.. questions are not for the the public ...lol
Ehat town is this in?
we are you from?