The area is frequented by floods and earthquakes. That's why it has had to be rebuilt so many times and will probably never be rebuilt again.@dammitbobby283
It's currently not traversable, and it has had maintenance. Every RR that's operated there has sunk gazillions of dollars into the thing. No operator of that line has ever turned a profit. Current attempt is the City of San Diego, owners the right of way, contracted with Baja Rail, the Mexican company that owns the portion of the line south of the border. The Mexican company will repair damage to, and then operate the line on both sides of the border. That agreement is just a few years old. No progress yet on either side. I'm not expecting that project to ever go anywhere. BUT - Lots of hikers in the area have reported (on enthusiast websites) that the SD county sheriff patrols and tickets hikers/bikers/rail carts and other trespassers. It's a $400 fine. Unverified speculation is that the Mexicans are contracting with the Sheriff's dept for patrol. That's not unheard of at all, and in many places very common. The LA county sheriff (and I'm sure the SDCo Sheriff as well) contracts with hundreds of companies and municipalities for service.
I enjoyed the tranquility of this ride even from my UA-cam arm chair. That would be a very cool desert adventure. Like being on an old steam train of old.
We have seen some very primitive man built structures last 1000+ years out west. Those should last alot longer...as long as geology doesn't eat them first :)
That was breathtaking watching it on my mobile phone screen so I can only imagine how breathtaking it would have been to be there in person 🤩. Thanks for allowing us to come along for the ride.
I had the same thought but no, their rig is light enough to just pick up and lift/portage over/around all but the worst of obstructions. When they got to the end, the long, rocking washout, I thought they could dismount and roll the cart but no harm, no foul for not trying that. Also, it looks like they didn't have a hand control they could have used from the side of the car, dismounted, so even mo' sketchy!
LOVE the railcart! I rode this line from the East San Diego side in the early 1990s on a mountain bike. This was before the line was modernized and used briefly by UP freight trains. At that time, many of the tunnels were blocked and from the video, the trestle has incurred more damage from slides since the line was shut down again 😥 Nothing like biking across the many bridges and looking almost straight down the gorge through the catwalks. Thanks for the cool video!
We have something similar here near me in the Jura Mountains / France. But the cars are without a motor and similar to a bicycle and the tracks run through a wooded area. It's less spectacular than in America, but without bee attacks. 😊
What a nice way to see the country side, and its free! A few rock falls to negotiate ! Even extra track if ure into fixing, need tools though ! Picture was a bit fuzzy, but good relaxing video !! 👏👏👍👍
Have you ever come across any serious dangers like wild animals? This is honestly one of my bucket list items. I'm a young disabled lady from England who is obsessed with the US wild West and the deserts and railtracks and history of it all. I can't think of a better way to spend a day than this video...thanks for uploading
Black Widow Spiders, Brown Recluse Spiders, Rattle Snakes cold warming in the sun, Warm Rattle Snakes trying to het in the shade, Scorpions! Nice Hobby 😊
We used to have a clear path all the way up to almost the top. The final tunnel was completely blocked. That was back in the 70s. Most of the tressels were gone. Just the track and the ties still all connected draped across the canyons and we went right through. We called them Whooptidos.
Pretty darn cool. Have not walked back there since 2018. It is easier to bring a wheel barrow and rock moving levers with the rail car to help clear the tracks. Let me know I'll help. The wheels can be made to be much lighter weight. I would make the bed an "H" block setup so it is lighter weight and easier to take apart in manageable pieces.
Oh damn! That awesome bit of railroad history is in worse condition than I had thought. Lots of landslides and even some washed out bits. I'd be surprised if they ever officially used that line again for anything. Nice video.
only things that could make that cart better are some shade, a cooler of drinks, and a chair. also, you''d do well to get some conical wheels, they help a TON on tracks like this!
In the UK they would have a steam loco running trips for tourists on that line, we have the KWVR just down the road, From where live we can here them chugging up the Hill to Haworth, where the Bronte sisters lived. A come along, a jack and pry bar would have been useful.
Form a Cart Club. Encourage like minded people to make their own cart. Prepare a comfortable seat for four. Arrange travel on holidays. You can remove the stones. Once you reach a tunnel take five minutes break.
What is happening in America is a gradual economic Richotte from overly aggressive and forced dependance on hiways and Freeways for everything. This ripping up rail routes has ended in America but the pendulum takes decades to swing back. These west- east routes are going to be needed again. It will take time but we are seeing the shipping meltdown in the Panama Canal and the vulnerability of the Suez canal. Look to the recent buy back of the BNSF paying HUNDERDS OF MILLIONS of Dollars in penalties to take back The Montana Rail Link.
That ' s especially true now that they've found those new lithium mines around Nevada/Oregon border. They are going to need train rails to carry the materials for years to come.
u need to read the history of the pussguts of the big nothing rr and their disdain for the northern pacific rway. in the 80s the bn took over the slsf and let the pussguts who ran the slsf into the ground run the bn into the ground. said pussguts "gave away" the np line. in 97 the morons paid 40m$ + to get some of it back in washington, in 2022 ,after urs of harassing him, the morons paid dennis washingon 2b$ to get it back in montana. the np was a land grant line with tight curves and small tunnels. the rr in this country are "too big to fail" and have 0 concern for anything outside huge unit trains
Ur absolutely right about DEPENDANCE N cuz eye have treated millions of Souls and living light Spirits that have suffered horrific Spiritual torture programs through abductions and most of U refuse to acknowledge that truth to live in a Lie B cuz their minds DEPENDANCY is they can't LET go of their ABUSER And who DO Think that ABUSEr is ? Cell self abuse as a child leads to adult children abusing their inner breathing cellular ATP Kreb cycle immunity function Firewall n cuz their blowing Holes in their DNA software immunity function Firewall Shield and B gone ripe TARGETS for intruder races cells parasiting off ur ATP Kreb cycle immunity function Firewall That's basic cellular biology The vast majority of people that live in America are mentally ill Go look at the data stream analysis It's all their Ask any Country Sheriff what they're dealing with The Only reason America is still alive is we are here as Guardians b cuz ur operating in an AI Spiritual battlefield environment between dead ones and live ones U know how to tell the difference between a Robot Cyber Space Bot and Soulless Clones? That's our job We're the reconnaissance mission security Teams here There easy to identify Their running on dead finite artificial light intelligence Hive mind Cyberspace Group Think Metatronic Black 🖤 Mirror Technology 55 harmonic Black Goo Cube Coded identities So we map the consciousness directed energy codes to determine the software operating system codes their running The folks that put these railroad lines in were demons Part of Solomon's DEMON Legions That's ur Roman Empire Ask any Native Tribal indigenous people here what happened in 408 AD when the Native Home world Tribal Shield Spirits got together and defeated the Roman Legions Thhat is known as the Camels eye Treaty Their Land Title was stripped and they could not own anything anymore That changed in the 15th century when the Cleopatra White Tribes of Europe sold the Title back to the Club of Rome for pennies on the dollar store That led to the Second Crusades Ur Masons The knights of Malta Their negative -13 reversal Spiral anti Christ coded demon seed Legions Ur 13 parasitic Satanic Ritual Torture forced breeding experiments abductions memory wipes and recoding ur DNA software operating system language codes Now U don't remember ur original template codecs We know the right codes We're mapping the software codecs That's how we identify who's who Now their second Empire is completely bankrupt So guess what they did ? They SOLD U out to China as social security Birth certificate bonds That's called Slave trader's Now ur all on the reservation dependant on ur rulers If U don't obey U become a Targeted Soul Spirit essence I'll get a visit from the Hive mind Cyberspace thought police Ur Robo Cops All they gotta do is falsely accuse U of anything with the judges already getting a cut of the action to put u in one flew over the cuckoo's nest as a state mental Hospital prison complex PSI pressure sensitive sound and light number space Now ur space is a mental cage prison complex If U need a refresher course go watch the following educational documentaries 1 Terminator Rise of the AI Skynet machines 2. Minority Report 3.Hobbs and Shaw ( Shaw house in London) 4. Star Trek Next Generation ( The Borg Cube Ship) Ur in a Movie set That movie is a game The name of the Game is Star Wars video games Those are software engineering codecs of programs that are running in the Morphogenetic field structure of DNA software operating system communication through servers as Gate network interface Hub Wheels Trauma based Mind control Go visit Super Soldier Talk Or the ACIO Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization That's the Super Soldiers program Have a beautiful day everyone Thanks for the sharing ur ride with us We love U all B good Tu ur inner Solar Rishi Oversoul Spirit Mu ah 💋 🌈💜🌋
This looks like great fun! These vid's have got me thinking. We've got a whole rail line up the island that's been unused for decades and goes through some beautiful forest. And I've got a welding shop so not hard to make a cart! I'm thinking something that's an electric and pedal power combo. I've got a DC motor kicking around from a treadmill and lots of old bikes. I just like the quiet over the gas motor. But having the speed, power and range of gas would be nice. Love that scenery. Total opposite of up here on the West Coast. ???: Do you think, for the wheels, some slices of heavy gauge PVC pipe would work as wheels? I was thinking to slip collars over the PVC wheels made out of a larger dia. pipe to act as the inside rail flanges. Maybe rubber over the PVC for the drive wheels for grip. Use appropriate size tubed wheel barrow or dolly tires for the wheels. Slip the PVC slices of these and inflate to hold the PVC rims in place. Would also give a bit of cushion to the ride and quiet things a bit. Any thoughts? (Coffee shop engineering always works perfect in my head! Physics be damned! LOL!! ) I was also thinking a "cattle pusher" of sorts would be good on these. But more like a flat blade to cut the brush you run into and also clear the small rocks, etc from the tracks. Couple arms out front of the cart with a section of wood of steel across the arms, maybe a couple feet out front. Mount a blade on the leading edge. The cutting knives front a wood planer or old sheer knife blades from a sheer at a print shop of news paper printer. Or just some flat bar steel. Have the arms ride just a 1/4" +/- above the rail on some roller blade or skateboard wheels. ...... Now my brain is just getting carried away.... LOL! Happy Holiday's! :D
@@550n440 Funny (maybe almost creepy...LOL!) you mention that! I was just eye-balling the Honda EU 2200 in the garage this morning and wondering if an AC motor or a DC treadmill motor would be a better choice for power/speed/distance per litre of gas. And if bicycle gears and chain would be strong enough to push a light cart.
Wheels for the use on railroad tracks need to be conical in shape. Take a look at this view: 12:51 the shape makes the axles center themselves in between the rails. Cylindrical wheels will run their flanges against the rails all the time, causing lots of friction, consuming all the energy.
@@TDCflyer Yes, I know and agree. But as an initial test project, simple to fab cylinders with flanges with do the trick. Should it work out and if there's enough distance to travel and enough enjoyment had from it, I'll fab some proper shaped wheels. 🙂👍
HOW many times has UA-cam given me an off the rails new hobby to try? :) Going to checkout some of our very rare unused tracks in CT next week. Well see!
I have ALWAYS wanted to build and ride one of these, but here in the PNW we hardly have any abandoned railroads - or at least ones that are still intact
Awesome video. Way too neat. I am working with some of my engineering students to construct one! Any tips for finding conical wheels/substitutes for them?
Beautiful place! Mystical! Historical! Mysterious! Is this road abandoned? For what reason? How long have you been visiting this road, in November of this year?
Maby add a canopy. You can make a fun railtrack camper out of that. Maby a solar panel ontop of it for some camping quality. Is the current setup heavy to move ?
That so much of this railroad, in this climate and without maintenance, is still traversable is a testament to those who built it,
The area is frequented by floods and earthquakes. That's why it has had to be rebuilt so many times and will probably never be rebuilt again.@dammitbobby283
@dammitbobby283 And flash floods.
Being American, lets start with the quality of the steel :)
It's currently not traversable, and it has had maintenance. Every RR that's operated there has sunk gazillions of dollars into the thing. No operator of that line has ever turned a profit. Current attempt is the City of San Diego, owners the right of way, contracted with Baja Rail, the Mexican company that owns the portion of the line south of the border. The Mexican company will repair damage to, and then operate the line on both sides of the border. That agreement is just a few years old. No progress yet on either side. I'm not expecting that project to ever go anywhere.
BUT - Lots of hikers in the area have reported (on enthusiast websites) that the SD county sheriff patrols and tickets hikers/bikers/rail carts and other trespassers. It's a $400 fine. Unverified speculation is that the Mexicans are contracting with the Sheriff's dept for patrol. That's not unheard of at all, and in many places very common. The LA county sheriff (and I'm sure the SDCo Sheriff as well) contracts with hundreds of companies and municipalities for service.
Unreal tunnels... Really beautifully designed and built
This is like, the American version of British narrowboat canal touring.
Without the bunks, stove , drinks cabinet or porta potti.
This is great, it is so relaxing to watch these videos. I love what you do.
What a cool rig and amazing ride! ❤
Imagine how quiet and peaceful it is way out there... away from the sounds of the city, etc
Yeah. It's too damn noisy.
Fantastic bit of filming. Wish we had this opportunity in the UK but we just tare all our old lines up 😳 thanks for posting 🤟
Yeah I wish we could do this as well. Would also make it much easier to re-open any lines that have been previously closed.
It may be easier to pick up his cart and move it over or around the rock rather than moving boulders 😊
I just wonder how he stops in a hurry or at all? Because I didn't see any brakes on his cart! Especially if you are going down hill?
@@rickstephens1130
Foot, meet wheel, wheel, foot.
i agree very hard to point a camera forward
I enjoyed the tranquility of this ride even from my UA-cam arm chair. That would be a very cool desert adventure. Like being on an old steam train of old.
Thank you for sharing this. This made my day one of the best things I’ve seen on UA-cam in quite a while. This ride must have been amazing and fun.
Amazing landscapes, thanks for sharing !!
Appreciations to the engineers who have designed and built those tunnels.
We have seen some very primitive man built structures last 1000+ years out west. Those should last alot longer...as long as geology doesn't eat them first :)
Thank you for clearing what you could.
That trip is on my bucket list.
👍
Our San Diego County deserts are awesome!
indeed, Mexico, whether occupied or unoccupied, it's always beautiful
This is amazing!!! So much better than having to hike 14 miles round trip!
Yes, that's why I originally made the cart
That was breathtaking watching it on my mobile phone screen so I can only imagine how breathtaking it would have been to be there in person 🤩. Thanks for allowing us to come along for the ride.
Got to love the Harbor Freight motor. Reexploring the west with Chinese manufacturing.
Now if only you had a canopy on that cart and a case of beer.🤠
Thank you for this wonderful video so relaxing.
The tunnels are really superbly built, as if they had only been opened yesterday. Bridges too. TY 4 VID
You need to bring a long pry bar along to move rocks
And some water and gas.
I had the same thought but no, their rig is light enough to just pick up and lift/portage over/around all but the worst of obstructions. When they got to the end, the long, rocking washout, I thought they could dismount and roll the cart but no harm, no foul for not trying that. Also, it looks like they didn't have a hand control they could have used from the side of the car, dismounted, so even mo' sketchy!
@@user-od9iz9cv1w Or black powder . Might encourage more rocks though .
Some dynamite😊
thanks for sharing a part of your adventure!
I can picture being on an old steam chain going down those tracks it would be an amazing ride.
I would easily become addicted to this activity. Just awesome
Wow what a hobby! Some of the views from the higher more open sections of track are pretty spectacular
Класс! Спасибо за видео! Смелые вы мужики! 🙂
Br still in good shape the approachs are the hand rail cable wow.
Great footage! Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
A stunning ride. Loved the tunnels. Well built railroad. Too bad for the total blockage.
Thanks for watching!
these speeder vids are allways good to watch goat tressel rr very interesting it amazeing the track is still there not turned into been cans ttfn&ty
LOVE the railcart!
I rode this line from the East San Diego side in the early 1990s on a mountain bike. This was before the line was modernized and used briefly by UP freight trains.
At that time, many of the tunnels were blocked and from the video, the trestle has incurred more damage from slides since the line was shut down again
😥
Nothing like biking across the many bridges and looking almost straight down the gorge through the catwalks.
Thanks for the cool video!
Cool video! You need a Gorn to throw those big rocks off the tracks. 😀
I’ve hiked in to the trestle…..it’s a beautiful walk!!
Loved water tower still being there.
I am so pleased to see the railroad tracks be used. Such a waste to let them sit.
We have something similar here near me in the Jura Mountains / France. But the cars are without a motor and similar to a bicycle and the tracks run through a wooded area. It's less spectacular than in America, but without bee attacks. 😊
Very beautiful scenery :)
I like.
What a nice way to see the country side, and its free! A few rock falls to negotiate ! Even extra track if ure into fixing, need tools though ! Picture was a bit fuzzy, but good relaxing video !! 👏👏👍👍
Have you ever come across any serious dangers like wild animals?
This is honestly one of my bucket list items. I'm a young disabled lady from England who is obsessed with the US wild West and the deserts and railtracks and history of it all. I can't think of a better way to spend a day than this video...thanks for uploading
No wild animal problems. Wild people problems yes
Black Widow Spiders, Brown Recluse Spiders, Rattle Snakes cold warming in the sun, Warm Rattle Snakes trying to het in the shade, Scorpions! Nice Hobby 😊
lol, maybe you just shouldn't go outside then
Excellent video, I really liked it ahow de ball
We used to have a clear path all the way up to almost the top. The final tunnel was completely blocked. That was back in the 70s. Most of the tressels were gone. Just the track and the ties still all connected draped across the canyons and we went right through. We called them Whooptidos.
Fascinating video.
really nice and relaxing video.
Pretty darn cool. Have not walked back there since 2018. It is easier to bring a wheel barrow and rock moving levers with the rail car to help clear the tracks. Let me know I'll help. The wheels can be made to be much lighter weight. I would make the bed an "H" block setup so it is lighter weight and easier to take apart in manageable pieces.
Great hobby sir! I've imagined riding on an abandoned RR in a handcar since I saw it on Petticoat Junction in the early 70s.
Oh damn! That awesome bit of railroad history is in worse condition than I had thought. Lots of landslides and even some washed out bits. I'd be surprised if they ever officially used that line again for anything. Nice video.
I knew the man who ran the SP crew for the gorge back in the 60's and 70's. He lived in Jacumba until his passing a few years back.
That was great... i live in Los Angeles, and in 2 years i will be doing this when i retire...
I’ve hiked a good bit of what you showed, but that was quite a few years ago. Then they had work engines go through trying to keep hikers out.
ما اجمل ان يعيش الشخص في مثل هكذا طبيعة حيث الهدوء والسكينة
Nothing to block the sun lol your a savage!!
Why does this give me Fallout new vegas vibes with a huge flavour if red dead redemption. 😊 love this
How Friggin cool is this!!??
2:35 amazing shot to 2:40. Crazy . New sub and i love this video
That was amazing, thanks for the ride
I like small carts you can carry around easily. Also those seem to be proper conic wheels too. Good job! 👍
only things that could make that cart better are some shade, a cooler of drinks, and a chair. also, you''d do well to get some conical wheels, they help a TON on tracks like this!
i would love to go up there for 1 month as a volunteer and help clear the tracks. i know it's dangerous but imagine the fun.
That looks like good fun
Awesome adventures!
In the UK they would have a steam loco running trips for tourists on that line, we have the KWVR just down the road, From where live we can here them chugging up the Hill to Haworth, where the Bronte sisters lived. A come along, a jack and pry bar would have been useful.
This is amazing.
This is how I want to travel to school
02:08 🤩👌 Having the Django soundtrack in my mind.
Thank you very much for the ride
Awesome video ! 👍
10.21 If possible show the bridges from below. That may be another marvel of yesteryears.
Nice ride but was disappointed you went all the way to the big trestle and didn’t film it…..?
@ about 10:20, the bridge… any idea when it was built?
Add some swing-down/up wheels and a handle up front to portage around the slides. Looks like loads of fun!
Thanks for the video
What an awesome cool way to pass some time outdoors and see nature!!
Cool job ryan ... with this video had a million views
👍
Form a Cart Club. Encourage like minded people to make their own cart. Prepare a comfortable seat for four. Arrange travel on holidays. You can remove the stones. Once you reach a tunnel take five minutes break.
Without real money and re-design, that line is done.
What is happening in America is a gradual economic Richotte from overly aggressive and forced dependance on hiways and Freeways for everything. This ripping up rail routes has ended in America but the pendulum takes decades to swing back. These west- east routes are going to be needed again. It will take time but we are seeing the shipping meltdown in the Panama Canal and the vulnerability of the Suez canal. Look to the recent buy back of the BNSF paying HUNDERDS OF MILLIONS of Dollars in penalties to take back The Montana Rail Link.
That ' s especially true now that they've found those new lithium mines around Nevada/Oregon border. They are going to need train rails to carry the materials for years to come.
What are you yapping about
@@darenjones8766 Learn how to read.
u need to read the history of the pussguts of the big nothing rr and their disdain for the northern pacific rway. in the 80s the bn took over the slsf and let the pussguts who ran the slsf into the ground run the bn into the ground. said pussguts "gave away" the np line. in 97 the morons paid 40m$ + to get some of it back in washington, in 2022 ,after urs of harassing him, the morons paid dennis washingon 2b$ to get it back in montana. the np was a land grant line with tight curves and small tunnels. the rr in this country are "too big to fail" and have 0 concern for anything outside huge unit trains
Ur absolutely right about DEPENDANCE N cuz eye have treated millions of Souls and living light Spirits that have suffered horrific Spiritual torture programs through abductions and most of U refuse to acknowledge that truth to live in a Lie B cuz their minds DEPENDANCY is they can't LET go of their ABUSER
And who DO Think that ABUSEr is ?
Cell self abuse as a child leads to adult children abusing their inner breathing cellular ATP Kreb cycle immunity function Firewall n cuz their blowing Holes in their DNA software immunity function Firewall Shield and B gone ripe TARGETS for intruder races cells parasiting off ur ATP Kreb cycle immunity function Firewall
That's basic cellular biology
The vast majority of people that live in America are mentally ill
Go look at the data stream analysis
It's all their
Ask any Country Sheriff what they're dealing with
The Only reason America is still alive is we are here as Guardians b cuz ur operating in an AI Spiritual battlefield environment between dead ones and live ones
U know how to tell the difference between a Robot Cyber Space Bot and Soulless Clones?
That's our job
We're the reconnaissance mission security Teams here
There easy to identify
Their running on dead finite artificial light intelligence Hive mind Cyberspace Group Think Metatronic Black 🖤 Mirror Technology 55 harmonic Black Goo Cube Coded identities
So we map the consciousness directed energy codes to determine the software operating system codes their running
The folks that put these railroad lines in were demons
Part of Solomon's DEMON Legions
That's ur Roman Empire
Ask any Native Tribal indigenous people here what happened in 408 AD when the Native Home world Tribal Shield Spirits got together and defeated the Roman Legions
Thhat is known as the Camels eye Treaty
Their Land Title was stripped and they could not own anything anymore
That changed in the 15th century when the Cleopatra White Tribes of Europe sold the Title back to the Club of Rome for pennies on the dollar store
That led to the Second Crusades
Ur Masons
The knights of Malta
Their negative -13 reversal Spiral anti Christ coded demon seed Legions
Ur 13 parasitic Satanic Ritual Torture forced breeding experiments abductions memory wipes and recoding ur DNA software operating system language codes
Now U don't remember ur original template codecs
We know the right codes
We're mapping the software codecs
That's how we identify who's who
Now their second Empire is completely bankrupt
So guess what they did ?
They SOLD U out to China as social security Birth certificate bonds
That's called Slave trader's
Now ur all on the reservation dependant on ur rulers
If U don't obey U become a Targeted Soul Spirit essence
I'll get a visit from the Hive mind Cyberspace thought police
Ur Robo Cops
All they gotta do is falsely accuse U of anything with the judges already getting a cut of the action to put u in one flew over the cuckoo's nest as a state mental Hospital prison complex PSI pressure sensitive sound and light number space
Now ur space is a mental cage prison complex
If U need a refresher course go watch the following educational documentaries
1 Terminator Rise of the AI Skynet machines
2. Minority Report
3.Hobbs and Shaw ( Shaw house in London)
4. Star Trek Next Generation ( The Borg Cube Ship)
Ur in a Movie set
That movie is a game
The name of the Game is Star Wars video games
Those are software engineering codecs of programs that are running in the Morphogenetic field structure of DNA software operating system communication through servers as Gate network interface Hub Wheels
Trauma based Mind control
Go visit Super Soldier Talk
Or the ACIO
Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization
That's the Super Soldiers program
Have a beautiful day everyone
Thanks for the sharing ur ride with us
We love U all
B good Tu ur inner Solar Rishi Oversoul Spirit
Mu ah 💋 🌈💜🌋
Love it so exciting.
muy bonitos paisajes gracias
This looks like great fun! These vid's have got me thinking. We've got a whole rail line up the island that's been unused for decades and goes through some beautiful forest. And I've got a welding shop so not hard to make a cart! I'm thinking something that's an electric and pedal power combo. I've got a DC motor kicking around from a treadmill and lots of old bikes. I just like the quiet over the gas motor. But having the speed, power and range of gas would be nice. Love that scenery. Total opposite of up here on the West Coast.
???: Do you think, for the wheels, some slices of heavy gauge PVC pipe would work as wheels? I was thinking to slip collars over the PVC wheels made out of a larger dia. pipe to act as the inside rail flanges. Maybe rubber over the PVC for the drive wheels for grip. Use appropriate size tubed wheel barrow or dolly tires for the wheels. Slip the PVC slices of these and inflate to hold the PVC rims in place. Would also give a bit of cushion to the ride and quiet things a bit.
Any thoughts? (Coffee shop engineering always works perfect in my head! Physics be damned! LOL!! )
I was also thinking a "cattle pusher" of sorts would be good on these. But more like a flat blade to cut the brush you run into and also clear the small rocks, etc from the tracks. Couple arms out front of the cart with a section of wood of steel across the arms, maybe a couple feet out front. Mount a blade on the leading edge. The cutting knives front a wood planer or old sheer knife blades from a sheer at a print shop of news paper printer. Or just some flat bar steel. Have the arms ride just a 1/4" +/- above the rail on some roller blade or skateboard wheels.
...... Now my brain is just getting carried away.... LOL!
Happy Holiday's! :D
Electric with a small quiet (Honda) generator and a solar panel would be awesome.
@@550n440 Funny (maybe almost creepy...LOL!) you mention that! I was just eye-balling the Honda EU 2200 in the garage this morning and wondering if an AC motor or a DC treadmill motor would be a better choice for power/speed/distance per litre of gas. And if bicycle gears and chain would be strong enough to push a light cart.
Forget PVC, just use good solid steel. PVC will shatter instantly!
Wheels for the use on railroad tracks need to be conical in shape. Take a look at this view: 12:51 the shape makes the axles center themselves in between the rails. Cylindrical wheels will run their flanges against the rails all the time, causing lots of friction, consuming all the energy.
@@TDCflyer Yes, I know and agree. But as an initial test project, simple to fab cylinders with flanges with do the trick. Should it work out and if there's enough distance to travel and enough enjoyment had from it, I'll fab some proper shaped wheels. 🙂👍
This old train track was in my dreams over and over again, but they weren’t good dreams…:
So cool!
These dudes are quite strong!!
This is so cool. Lesson for us in the UK see what you can achieve if you stopped ripping up our disused lines 😮
HOW many times has UA-cam given me an off the rails new hobby to try? :) Going to checkout some of our very rare unused tracks in CT next week. Well see!
I would pay you to take me on a run with you!! So cool!
Can you amagine the labor and man power used? 😮
Line closed in 2008. I assume large freight once used it. Great video!
I have seen a video of a work crew working on it in 2012.
Is it possible to have backup by road?
I don’t know where everyone is getting their wheels. This is great I wish there were more tutorials on building this
Have to make them
I really like watching your videos, just wish you would talk about some of the things you are seeing.
Interesting to watch thanks. I didn't see "we" giving a lot of help when we moved rocks and stuffs off the track.... but at 7:00 I did get to see him!
Maybe the stronger guy just wanted to show off his strength!😂😂😂
I have ALWAYS wanted to build and ride one of these, but here in the PNW we hardly have any abandoned railroads - or at least ones that are still intact
Many thanks - looks like the number of rock falls has increased significantly an the last 5 years.
Awesome video. Way too neat. I am working with some of my engineering students to construct one! Any tips for finding conical wheels/substitutes for them?
Fabulous; although, one of the tunnel entrances (not to mention the rock slides) looked a tad ominous.
marcus
Beautiful place! Mystical! Historical! Mysterious! Is this road abandoned? For what reason? How long have you been visiting this road, in November of this year?
This is so cool, I wish I could do it
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Great video - but when do we get to see the Goat Canyon Trestle ???
Maby add a canopy. You can make a fun railtrack camper out of that. Maby a solar panel ontop of it for some camping quality. Is the current setup heavy to move ?