Great video JP, I love seeing old abandoned rail roads. It's like a time capsule, I love the color blue, and seeing the Conrail locomotives back in 1980s was amazing.
Thank you for reviewing this Rail-Trail. I came up with the term Rail-Trail in 1990 when a volunteer with the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail in Montgomery Co. MD and Washington D.C. to mean a bike path that precisely follows the original well maintained rail alignment. Surprisingly the Rain-to-Trails Conservancy, who's communications director Karen-Lee Ryan was our chairperson, didn't expect rail-to-trail conversion to use the rail alignment; therefore, a rail-to-trail conversion didn't not mean a saving of the original rail alignment as a bicycle path, which many people thought was the core objective of Rails-to-Trails with anything else being seen as mist opportunity.. There needed to be a simple name or phrase that expressed that idea of saving the rail alignment as a bicycle path. The problem in using the word trail is a trail is not a path, highway, or other form of transport way, but a trail is marked route allowing navigating over possibly many different travel way types allowing the traveler to follow one marking to the next and so on enables easily navigating from one location to another location. For example the Appalachian Trail is typically marked with paint blazes on trees. If there are no trees then rock monuments maybe used or other marking means. The words path and highway are more accurate in describing the actual facility desired, but don't have the connection with a human experience the word trail did in the 1980s. The phrase Rail-Traill literally means a trail that follows the rails, where the word "follows" can unfortunately be used very loosely so when defining Rail-Trail the phrasing of 'precisely follows the original well maintained rail alignment' is how I describe it. Although I meant Rail-Trails to preserve the original rail alignment as a bicycle path any highway that precisely preserves the original rail alignment is a Rail-Trail even if it is a two lane motor vehicle road. In such a situation having full lane bicycle shoulders is a respectful means of providing well for bicycles. A lot of rail alignments have become make shift roads such as driveways. In order to recapture the rail corridor and greatly implement a bicycle path Rail-Trail some sections may be best converted to be a true multi-use path that includes typical motor vehicle traffic for a short distance. The official term for a non exclusive use bicycle path is a multi-use path, but that term as I'm pointing out is open to a lot of interpretations. If motor vehicle road implemented that large width will destroy the original railroad embankment fills and cut contours, but as long as the rail alignment is maintained it is a likely the best compromise available. Typically there are track charts of the railroad line available from railroad historical websites. Track Charts are a condensed schematic of the railroad line with railroad grades percentages, degrees of curvature, railroad equipment and signaling locations, mile markers, etc. The real estate plats of a common carrier railroad are federally mandated to be in the form of what are termed Valuation Maps. Common carrier railroad corridors are special in they are under federal imminent domain and outside the local state's imminent domain so the land records are not held by the local county, but officially by the federal government that mandates the railroad maintains these records. If you want the official real estate representation of a railroad you need its valuation maps. Frequently the class 1 railroad such as CSX will still have on file valuation maps for railroad properties they sold decades ago and you can still get the CSX valuation office to send you copies provided you have the correct valuation map section and numbers which are on the track charts.
Really cool video! That's a trail that's still on my wishlist to ride for the first time. It's a lot nicer than I realized. I love the railroad history still strewn about, and that boardwalk section is unique in this area. I had no idea about the different handrails for different railroad, so thanks for sharing what Nick shared with you. Nick is really good at spotting details like that. That depot building you found in Coopersburg would be really cool to build for a model railroad, and weather it and everything to make it look just like that. Thanks for the tour, and I hope you get back to see the northern part up to Bethlehem in a future video.
What a fun day as always. I am glad you came down to check this out and I am also glad that we got to see some things that I haven't even seen yet. I am looking forward to the future rides along here and to see what else we find along the way.
Great explore! I find overgrown and derelict structures fascinating. That crooked signal tower is just amazing! To me looking at these overgrown structures feels like looking from a place outside of time at overlapping parallel realities (past and present); it feels like time stands still as the imagination fills in all the details of the past. The music was excellent too! Great video!
Great video!! I live in Coopersburg and take the trail on bike rides quite regularly. Unfortunately the trail itself doesn't go into Bethlehem, it ends in Hellertown. However with some back roads and a crossing of the Lehigh River (New St bridge is a good approach since it has a nice pedestrian section) you can pick the D & L rail trail in Bethlehem and head up to Jim Thorpe. The Saucony rail trail is part of a larger trail system called the Highland Trail system, it's a mix of trails and back roads which is quite extensive. Great to see your keen interest in local R&R history. Keep up the great work!!
What a wonderful piece of history from long ago. I love the fact that there are so many trails in your area. I don't we have many at all if any. I would love to have one of those E-bikes or scooters but I wouldn't know where to ride it. I love these old railroad videos. Thanks for sharing.
30:07 What you're on there is the old Liberty Bell line that ran from Allentown to Philadelphia which is now called the R5 line Lansdale you should take the trip from the Allentown station which is now a bar which is now closed and then you can't follow it really until you get to the rail trail and then you can follow it all the way from Allentown to where you're at there in Coopersburg I remember seeing pictures and movies of it I don't know who has them or I haven't seen him in about 20 years ago,, also I seen a video of yours I was watching some of it and then my Wi-Fi came out it was you guys wanting to cross a bridge across the Lehigh from either North Hampton to or from Cady to Northampton I crossed that bridge a bunch of times back in the seventies when it was still used a little bit but after that they cut the rails out because too many people were taking dirt bikes across it I think that's the Jersey Central bridge and the one down from it was an old Ironton railroad bridge
That is part of the old Reading Bethlehem Branch. With the exception of the Perkasie Tunnel - single track (below Quakertown), it was a two tracks all the way. Septa ran RDC's on it up until the early 80's, but dropped the line when they focused only on on electric and dropped all their diesel lines. It has been abandoned ever since, (believe they still own it) but still in tact from Quakertown south as a local freight line down to Lansdale, run by East Penn. It could be converted back to a rail line, and there has been groups trying to at least re-establish passenger service on it, at least up to Quakertown, if not all the way back to Bethlehem. In the mean while, they have been allowing the townships in between to convert to a rail trail to preserve it...which you are riding on.
Great video. I really liked the culvert. It was unique. I liked the current google maps picture shown with the old-time picture. That made it clear what had changed and what remains. As always, the still photos were great.
Cool video JP, have you ever been to the old D&H rail trail, I believe it started in Forest City and ran in a northerly direction in to New York State, from what I have heard, it is now paved right up to the state line, I know it's paved in the Lanesboro area
Love those old signal's and the sandstone tunnel. There's a beautiful set of old signal's on a abandoned Wheeling & Lake Erie line here in Cleveland Ohio for the approach to a old drawbridge. I found some cool old glass signal lenses on the ground that are not broken, dated 1931.
Enjoyed this video very much! Both rail trails are very nice, but I especially loved seeing the angled culvert and the Triassic World info. Very cool! Fun trick-riding scenes by you & RJ & loved the BK crown on your head, Lol!!😄Looking forward to your next adventure -- Thanks for bringing us along!❤
Thanks for sharing! I love rail trails, but at the same time it makes me sad too, knowing the trains will never run again on that line. Would love to come and ride that one someday!
I'll have to check out this trail as I'm only about 30 to 40 minutes from there. I've been bicycling the Hamburg, PA rails to trails for 15 years that is currently under construction up towards Auburn in Schuylkill county as they are working on connecting to the Auburn rails to trail which will eventually connect to the Landisville damn rails to trail just north of Auburn.
an amazing video...really cool finds along the trail, glad you do take the time to find what might be just along these trails. have to say i also enjoyed the look at the burger king, don't see any with the "old school" interior like that ..take care guys looking forward to the next adventure
Good afternoon JP, holy moly what an epic ride, that old train depot/coal dump was seriously amazing that whole building looked incredible. It's amazing what can be revealed when one takes the time to look around.. I've not seen a colvert like that very coolios.
I love seeing railways of what they used to be, we have them out here but old mining rails that go no where it so cool .....this was a great video thank you jp as always great find I am so jelly lol
This was really cool !!! I think people are blind to a lot that's around them for sure !! This was really neat video !! So much out there to see out there great videos as alway's !! 👍👍
Love rail trails and this seemed to be a really nice one to ride and explore ..Looked like you and RJ had so much fun . 😊The old stacked stone culvert is a gem .... beautifully constructed . Thank you for sharing the fun with us . 👍💙
JP's favorite things (besides family and friends and obvious stuff like that): 1) Moss 2) Running water 3) Culverts 4) Moss-covered culvert with water running through it
@@JPVideos81 Apparently northeast Pennsylvania is home to Moss Acres, "the nation's leading supplier of live moss." That's all I know; I live in the Midwest.
Nice! I like the music 🎵. So, D&H Rail Trail is on your list... North Carbondale is interesting when speaking rail lines. One goes to Hancock,NY I guess.... There are other adventures I guess involving UTVs or snowmobiles ect.
The point on top of the old signal is called a finale. I think it was more of a decorative item than anything else. They are super expensive on the collector market.
That was an awesome adventure with lots of great information and history. Love learning about the rail trails in your state. It's really fascinating. I was thinking that it would be fun to search around at the bottom of the telegraph poles to see if you could find any intact insulators. The culvert is really cool, I have never seen anything like that either. That was a neat Burger King! You were King for the day! 😂 Beautiful pictures and great video JP! Thank you!
So funny how they paved over the rails. That's almost as bad as paving over a roadkill deer. Lol 😂 One of your videos got me back into model steam engines, so I ordered 1/4 horsepower steam engine castings from a place in your state and I noticed that while tracking the order, the kit traveled right through the area where you shot this video. I also ordered a lathe to help me build the engine.
Should do a video on the west Penn trail there's old PRR stone arch bridges tunnels it's in Westmoreland county Pennsylvania Derry township there's a lot of history about the area
You are incorrect on the battery box thing, the railroad used to be 100% battery for crossings and signals until they switched over to power from the grid.
Awesome video. Perhaps you can help me? Back in 2010 I walked a trail by Hellertown pa. I took photos of old signal towners and relay boxes. I forget the name of the trail. Would you perhaps have a video on it?
@@JPVideos81 Honestly I don't know? The big thing I recall about the trail was a large signal mast and one the the lights on the top was very mangled and twisted. I dont if this is a help?
This was an interesting rail line in its day, it was a designated trolley line from Norristown Pa to Bethlehem Pa. Septa tried repurposing this numerous times over the years but the public demand just isn’t there.
This is former Septa line and was used for both Passenger and Freight service. The trolley line which was the Liberty Bell route which ran from 69th street terminal in Philadelphia to Allentown runs on the other side of route 309 from where we were along here. I do want to do a series on that alone in the future as I know parts of it are now trail and some of it still private property. Hopefully I can get JP back down in the future to do the old trolley line as well. 😊
What is the name brand and model of those scooters!?! They look perfect! EDIT: Hiboy! got it. Please give an update on their comfort and durability if you use them in the future.
In MN the rails were taken out and made into trails, no motorrized vehicles allowed. Including electric scooters and wheelchairs .....! But in winter snowmobiles can ride them. So sad a young man very handicapped got ticked for riding them !! Lost in court even.
Chevy corvette is a engine powered vehicle, tesla 3 is a motor powered vehicle. I feel like if pressed I could drive the corvette and cause the courts to change the language.
@@JPVideos81 must be Pennsylvania thing. Where do you draw the line. Electric powered devices have no business being on a bike and hike trail, in my opinion.
I really enjoy your videos...... but you constantly use the word "but" in the wrong pretext. At the end of you talking about returning with e-bikes. It should have been "and" not but. It seriously drives Me crazy that its always BUT.
We love the rail trails. This was so cool and fascinating. One day maybe we can get an e-bike or scooter 🛴 so we can explore farther than our feet will get us 🤗
Spring & summer is just around the corner. Can't wait to see what else I can discover on the trails.
Best was the train coal depot.
Great video JP, I love seeing old abandoned rail roads. It's like a time capsule, I love the color blue, and seeing the Conrail locomotives back in 1980s was amazing.
So much history. I think it's so cool how you can go town to town on your old rail trails and see historic remains along the way. ✌
It's almost better than traveling on the roads. No traffic.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for reviewing this Rail-Trail. I came up with the term Rail-Trail in 1990 when a volunteer with the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail in Montgomery Co. MD and Washington D.C. to mean a bike path that precisely follows the original well maintained rail alignment. Surprisingly the Rain-to-Trails Conservancy, who's communications director Karen-Lee Ryan was our chairperson, didn't expect rail-to-trail conversion to use the rail alignment; therefore, a rail-to-trail conversion didn't not mean a saving of the original rail alignment as a bicycle path, which many people thought was the core objective of Rails-to-Trails with anything else being seen as mist opportunity.. There needed to be a simple name or phrase that expressed that idea of saving the rail alignment as a bicycle path.
The problem in using the word trail is a trail is not a path, highway, or other form of transport way, but a trail is marked route allowing navigating over possibly many different travel way types allowing the traveler to follow one marking to the next and so on enables easily navigating from one location to another location. For example the Appalachian Trail is typically marked with paint blazes on trees. If there are no trees then rock monuments maybe used or other marking means. The words path and highway are more accurate in describing the actual facility desired, but don't have the connection with a human experience the word trail did in the 1980s.
The phrase Rail-Traill literally means a trail that follows the rails, where the word "follows" can unfortunately be used very loosely so when defining Rail-Trail the phrasing of 'precisely follows the original well maintained rail alignment' is how I describe it. Although I meant Rail-Trails to preserve the original rail alignment as a bicycle path any highway that precisely preserves the original rail alignment is a Rail-Trail even if it is a two lane motor vehicle road. In such a situation having full lane bicycle shoulders is a respectful means of providing well for bicycles. A lot of rail alignments have become make shift roads such as driveways.
In order to recapture the rail corridor and greatly implement a bicycle path Rail-Trail some sections may be best converted to be a true multi-use path that includes typical motor vehicle traffic for a short distance. The official term for a non exclusive use bicycle path is a multi-use path, but that term as I'm pointing out is open to a lot of interpretations. If motor vehicle road implemented that large width will destroy the original railroad embankment fills and cut contours, but as long as the rail alignment is maintained it is a likely the best compromise available.
Typically there are track charts of the railroad line available from railroad historical websites. Track Charts are a condensed schematic of the railroad line with railroad grades percentages, degrees of curvature, railroad equipment and signaling locations, mile markers, etc. The real estate plats of a common carrier railroad are federally mandated to be in the form of what are termed Valuation Maps. Common carrier railroad corridors are special in they are under federal imminent domain and outside the local state's imminent domain so the land records are not held by the local county, but officially by the federal government that mandates the railroad maintains these records. If you want the official real estate representation of a railroad you need its valuation maps. Frequently the class 1 railroad such as CSX will still have on file valuation maps for railroad properties they sold decades ago and you can still get the CSX valuation office to send you copies provided you have the correct valuation map section and numbers which are on the track charts.
Very nice trail🚴♂️
Agreed. Looking forward to taking it all the way to Bethlehem Steel.
You found the old spikeroo😮 these spikes need protection, all they want is love 😂
Thanks you guys for sharing this rail trail my favorite part was that boardwalk area. Can’t wait to ride this trail this spring
You were at the former Updegrave Lumber Co, in Coopersburg. Silhouettes, just across Station Ave, was The Baldwin House.
Thanks for the info
@@JPVideos81 Keep on rockin'!
Awesome trail and I could go for a BK stacker right now 😆
Make sure it's at a retro bk like that one
Really cool video! That's a trail that's still on my wishlist to ride for the first time. It's a lot nicer than I realized. I love the railroad history still strewn about, and that boardwalk section is unique in this area. I had no idea about the different handrails for different railroad, so thanks for sharing what Nick shared with you. Nick is really good at spotting details like that. That depot building you found in Coopersburg would be really cool to build for a model railroad, and weather it and everything to make it look just like that. Thanks for the tour, and I hope you get back to see the northern part up to Bethlehem in a future video.
That's a great idea about modeling the coal depot building. Hope you get to ride the trail this year.
Another fun adventure with JP and RJ! Thanks for the ride and interesting history! Love it! 👍🥰
Thank you for sharing the history of the railroad on this rail line
Thank you JP for this wonderful rail trail line. i love history about trains.
You're welcome
What a fun day as always. I am glad you came down to check this out and I am also glad that we got to see some things that I haven't even seen yet. I am looking forward to the future rides along here and to see what else we find along the way.
That culvert didnt disappoint. I'm ready to continue north on the bikes.
Great explore! I find overgrown and derelict structures fascinating. That crooked signal tower is just amazing! To me looking at these overgrown structures feels like looking from a place outside of time at overlapping parallel realities (past and present); it feels like time stands still as the imagination fills in all the details of the past.
The music was excellent too!
Great video!
Great video!! I live in Coopersburg and take the trail on bike rides quite regularly. Unfortunately the trail itself doesn't go into Bethlehem, it ends in Hellertown. However with some back roads and a crossing of the Lehigh River (New St bridge is a good approach since it has a nice pedestrian section) you can pick the D & L rail trail in Bethlehem and head up to Jim Thorpe. The Saucony rail trail is part of a larger trail system called the Highland Trail system, it's a mix of trails and back roads which is quite extensive. Great to see your keen interest in local R&R history. Keep up the great work!!
I noticed that on the map as well. Will be a long interesting ride on my ebike when i return. Thanks for watching
Thank you for that info. Very interesting.
What a wonderful piece of history from long ago. I love the fact that there are so many trails in your area. I don't we have many at all if any. I would love to have one of those E-bikes or scooters but I wouldn't know where to ride it. I love these old railroad videos. Thanks for sharing.
Great day out! Thanks for taking us along and explaining what you came across. Loved it!
My pleasure
30:07 What you're on there is the old Liberty Bell line that ran from Allentown to Philadelphia which is now called the R5 line Lansdale you should take the trip from the Allentown station which is now a bar which is now closed and then you can't follow it really until you get to the rail trail and then you can follow it all the way from Allentown to where you're at there in Coopersburg I remember seeing pictures and movies of it I don't know who has them or I haven't seen him in about 20 years ago,, also I seen a video of yours I was watching some of it and then my Wi-Fi came out it was you guys wanting to cross a bridge across the Lehigh from either North Hampton to or from Cady to Northampton I crossed that bridge a bunch of times back in the seventies when it was still used a little bit but after that they cut the rails out because too many people were taking dirt bikes across it I think that's the Jersey Central bridge and the one down from it was an old Ironton railroad bridge
Very interesting and a nice ride!! Thanks!! 💖💙💖💙💖💙
Thanks Jay,
Thanks RJ
Very interesting always entertaining.
Central California watching.
That is part of the old Reading Bethlehem Branch. With the exception of the Perkasie Tunnel - single track (below Quakertown), it was a two tracks all the way. Septa ran RDC's on it up until the early 80's, but dropped the line when they focused only on on electric and dropped all their diesel lines. It has been abandoned ever since, (believe they still own it) but still in tact from Quakertown south as a local freight line down to Lansdale, run by East Penn. It could be converted back to a rail line, and there has been groups trying to at least re-establish passenger service on it, at least up to Quakertown, if not all the way back to Bethlehem. In the mean while, they have been allowing the townships in between to convert to a rail trail to preserve it...which you are riding on.
Great video. I really liked the culvert. It was unique. I liked the current google maps picture shown with the old-time picture. That made it clear what had changed and what remains. As always, the still photos were great.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great Video thanks again for Sharing keep up the great work. it awesome how old these rail road bridge can be own up all these time
Cool video JP, have you ever been to the old D&H rail trail, I believe it started in Forest City and ran in a northerly direction in to New York State, from what I have heard, it is now paved right up to the state line, I know it's paved in the Lanesboro area
It's on my list
Great video always enjoy these videos on rail trails thanks JP and RJ
Nice tie plate and spikes
Interesting Thank you
Very neat trail to catch some history. Nice to find the railroad tie plates and the spikes. Thank you for sharing.
Love those old signal's and the sandstone tunnel. There's a beautiful set of old signal's on a abandoned Wheeling & Lake Erie line here in Cleveland Ohio for the approach to a old drawbridge. I found some cool old glass signal lenses on the ground that are not broken, dated 1931.
Enjoyed this video very much! Both rail trails are very nice, but I especially loved seeing the angled culvert and the Triassic World info. Very cool! Fun trick-riding scenes by you & RJ & loved the BK crown on your head, Lol!!😄Looking forward to your next adventure -- Thanks for bringing us along!❤
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Thanks for sharing! I love rail trails, but at the same time it makes me sad too, knowing the trains will never run again on that line. Would love to come and ride that one someday!
This one isn't bad. Hopefully the new ones I'm doing will be equally interesting.
Interesting video. My buddy told me that Another key factor was LANTA buss fought strongly against the repurposing of the line.
Awesome editing as well as the video and the scenery.
I'll have to check out this trail as I'm only about 30 to 40 minutes from there. I've been bicycling the Hamburg, PA rails to trails for 15 years that is currently under construction up towards Auburn in Schuylkill county as they are working on connecting to the Auburn rails to trail which will eventually connect to the Landisville damn rails to trail just north of Auburn.
I've filmed the bartram trail in the port clinton area.
Outstanding video. Looking forward to new/more rail trail adventures.
Thanks Allen
hey Jay, Very cool ride along! Hi RJ🙏🙏God Bless....
Very nice rail trail! What a terrific adventure! I am learning so much! Thank you for taking me along!! Keep up the great work!!
Awesome place thanks I enjoyed watching see your state
I always enjoy the videos & see different things.
my friends and I plan to take a bike ride on the rail trail under said viaduct this year too
You find the best explores. Great video! Loved the map work.
Rj gets credit for this one. I'm glad he invited me to check it out.
an amazing video...really cool finds along the trail, glad you do take the time to find what might be just along these trails. have to say i also enjoyed the look at the burger king, don't see any with the "old school" interior like that ..take care guys looking forward to the next adventure
That BK was like a time capsule. Thanks for checking out the video.
Good afternoon JP, holy moly what an epic ride, that old train depot/coal dump was seriously amazing that whole building looked incredible.
It's amazing what can be revealed when one takes the time to look around..
I've not seen a colvert like that very coolios.
Great to hear from you! Thanks for stopping by
@@JPVideos81 +my pleasure was good to hang out for a few, ill see you again
I love seeing railways of what they used to be, we have them out here but old mining rails that go no where it so cool .....this was a great video thank you jp as always great find I am so jelly lol
So much history is just sitting there to be shared. Thanks for checking it out.
This is a really cool rail to trail video. Nicely done
Thanks for
As always awesome content thanks
My pleasure
This was really cool !!! I think people are blind to a lot that's around them for sure !! This was really neat video !! So much out there to see out there great videos as alway's !! 👍👍
Love rail trails and this seemed to be a really nice one to ride and explore ..Looked like you and RJ had so much fun . 😊The old stacked stone culvert is a gem .... beautifully constructed . Thank you for sharing the fun with us . 👍💙
It was!
JP's favorite things (besides family and friends and obvious stuff like that):
1) Moss
2) Running water
3) Culverts
4) Moss-covered culvert with water running through it
Don't forget to add underground tunnels & natural swimming holes 😊
@@JPVideos81 Apparently northeast Pennsylvania is home to Moss Acres, "the nation's leading supplier of live moss." That's all I know; I live in the Midwest.
Great video as always!
Awesome
Nice! I like the music 🎵. So, D&H Rail Trail is on your list... North Carbondale is interesting when speaking rail lines. One goes to Hancock,NY I guess.... There are other adventures I guess involving UTVs or snowmobiles ect.
The point on top of the old signal is called a finale. I think it was more of a decorative item than anything else. They are super expensive on the collector market.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
The rail trails are really cool. Are there any in the western part of the state? Thanks to you and RJ for having us.
There are. I did one in Pittsburgh back in September.
the Panhandle trail, Montour trail and Great Allegheny passage. Just to name a few.
@@JPVideos81 Great! I’ll have to visit and check em out.
Very cool!
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That was an awesome adventure with lots of great information and history. Love learning about the rail trails in your state. It's really fascinating. I was thinking that it would be fun to search around at the bottom of the telegraph poles to see if you could find any intact insulators. The culvert is really cool, I have never seen anything like that either. That was a neat Burger King! You were King for the day! 😂 Beautiful pictures and great video JP! Thank you!
There's probably some broken insulators on the ground, but buried under debris. It's good to be the king 🤴 lol
So funny how they paved over the rails. That's almost as bad as paving over a roadkill deer. Lol 😂
One of your videos got me back into model steam engines, so I ordered 1/4 horsepower steam engine castings from a place in your state and I noticed that while tracking the order, the kit traveled right through the area where you shot this video. I also ordered a lathe to help me build the engine.
Nice. Enjoy your new item
Should do a video on the west Penn trail there's old PRR stone arch bridges tunnels it's in Westmoreland county Pennsylvania Derry township there's a lot of history about the area
Wow great video
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You are incorrect on the battery box thing, the railroad used to be 100% battery for crossings and signals until they switched over to power from the grid.
Awesome video. Perhaps you can help me? Back in 2010 I walked a trail by Hellertown pa. I took photos of old signal towners and relay boxes. I forget the name of the trail. Would you perhaps have a video on it?
Saucon rail trail?
@@JPVideos81 Honestly I don't know? The big thing I recall about the trail was a large signal mast and one the the lights on the top was very mangled and twisted. I dont if this is a help?
Great video. What kind if scooters are you two riding?
Hiboy s2 pro
When was the last train to run on this old line
I believe late 70s or early 80s
This was an interesting rail line in its day, it was a designated trolley line from Norristown Pa to Bethlehem Pa. Septa tried repurposing this numerous times over the years but the public demand just isn’t there.
This is former Septa line and was used for both Passenger and Freight service. The trolley line which was the Liberty Bell route which ran from 69th street terminal in Philadelphia to Allentown runs on the other side of route 309 from where we were along here. I do want to do a series on that alone in the future as I know parts of it are now trail and some of it still private property. Hopefully I can get JP back down in the future to do the old trolley line as well. 😊
What is the name brand and model of those scooters!?! They look perfect! EDIT: Hiboy! got it. Please give an update on their comfort and durability if you use them in the future.
Hiboy S2 pro. We have the optional seats and I've been using mine over a year.
In MN the rails were taken out and made into trails, no motorrized vehicles allowed. Including electric scooters and wheelchairs .....! But in winter snowmobiles can ride them. So sad a young man very handicapped got ticked for riding them !! Lost in court even.
That’s terrible 😢
Rediculous
Chevy corvette is a engine powered vehicle, tesla 3 is a motor powered vehicle. I feel like if pressed I could drive the corvette and cause the courts to change the language.
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I'm really surprised you can ride those electric scooters on the trail. I have always seen rail trails posted 'No Motorized Vehicles."
That applies to gas powered vehicles. Electric bikes are allowed and so are Electric scooters.
@@JPVideos81 must be Pennsylvania thing. Where do you draw the line. Electric powered devices have no business being on a bike and hike trail, in my opinion.
Ahh not far from me in this 1
I really enjoy your videos...... but you constantly use the word "but" in the wrong pretext. At the end of you talking about returning with e-bikes. It should have been "and" not but. It seriously drives Me crazy that its always BUT.
Sorry! Only human and do this on the fly so mistakes happen.
We love the rail trails. This was so cool and fascinating. One day maybe we can get an e-bike or scooter 🛴 so we can explore farther than our feet will get us 🤗
It's a great investment