Abandoned Railway Deep In The Woods Of Maine With Dozens Of Freight Cars
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2020
- Trail at 2:00 Trains at 13:00 Tram at 41:00 Filmed on May 29th 2020 oh, these trains were purchased in the 1920s from New York and transported to Quebec Canada where they were disassembled and brought to their place of operation on the Eagle Lake West Branch Railway disassembled in pieces on ice roads across the lakes with trucks
: Exploring Abandoned Anything can be dangerous. I don't encourage anyone to enter any Abandoned structure. Not only is safety a concern, but often times its illegal and when possible, i seek out permission from the owner or local police. I simply go to document its history before it's gone forever and leave things the way I find them. I only take pictures a only leave footprints. I assume all the risks & responsibility before doing this. Please don't attempt to do this on your own. Their could be nails, soft floors, animals or other hazards. Thanks for Watching
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At 37 min the gears and cable spool are the back half of a old steam powered engine winch the engine is missing tho
Who owns this? Railfan and I just might restore it.
May I please have some abandoned trains it was like some SunTrust and stuff box cars look like they're from the 1980s to The polar Express
Boring why so long one hour: 02:50
Imagine getting the train working
My great grandfather was the conductor of these trains. They were used to haul logs through the woods. My grandfather was the camp poacher as a teenager. His job was to hunt and fish for the wood cutters that lived in this camp. Shortly before he died the paper company brought he and his brother Pearly and myself across Eagle Lake to visit the site. They did a news story on it. My grandfather and his brother passed away a few years ago in their 90’s.
Cool, but I’m smelling cap
Thanks for sharing.
The good old days rains from the old days
I’m sry about your lost but thank for sharing
Amazing
I am from the UK, and I once read that 25% of the American interior has not been foot surveyed. The sheer vastness of it is almost unimaginable to us. Really fascinating video. Thanks.
I am an American, and never read this factoid until now. Interesting... Thank you for that!
Thank you for posting this video. I was there in 1967, while on a Boy Scout canoe trip between Telos Lake and Allagash Lake. Back then, the locomotives were still protected by a barn, and a forest warden and his wife lived in a house on the shore of Eagle Lake during the summer. We landed on the Chamberlain Lake end of the tramway, and hiked through the forest guided by a topographic map. The locomotives were still in good condition, although one had quite a bit of grafitti on it. Unfortunately, the barn was destroyed a few years after we were there, apparently as a result of a miscommunication during an effort to remove man-made structures in the area. During the same trip, we met an old fire warden who spent summers on Allagash Mountain. I think the old fire tower is still there, although no longer active. Thank you again for this wonderful video.
Born and raised in Maine. I haven’t been out there to see the tram since 1978, boy it looks different now. Thanks for filming this.
I love how you find joy in the simple things and that you appreciate all parts of it. We can all learn from that.
History of the Past is The most interesting thing going through the woods and finding gems like this!!, shout out from Oregon.. great Video
You look sexy as fuck 😁
when i was young, i would visit the elderly in a local retirement home. they told me about many forgotten things ,within a 15 mile radius. they usually knew who to talk to , in order to get permission, i found old rail stuff ,i even got to dive a sunken steampaddle boat in a large lake..i was directed to Indian burial mounds. i was given permission to enter an old farm that had been sealed up way back in the woods,.the owner gave me an ancient nail puller an old flyfishing pole and a vinagaroon boot scraper . i still have them 40yrs later..old cemeteries are my favorite..you just keep perusing simplicity and you'll find happiness..and don't forget to report arcologia (creep)
So true , they have so much water , river , creek , and dry wash crossings always peaked my interest , I am out west Las Vegas ,but hunted up north east and north central Nevada man's confrontation with nature dams and culverts for road crossings.. 🤔✌️💪👍💎🙏😸🖖
The "fancy wheels" that you saw were standard for the day and most likely made of cast iron. 38:00 is a steam driven winch. At 40:00 it is a Harp Switch stand. 43:05 is how the tram operated. The elevated section would haul the logs and the tracks beneath would bring the empty carriages back. It ran as a continuous loop so on top they were moving one direction and below they were moving the opposite way. Note that the ones on the lower track are upside down as far as the teeth go. At 45:45 is the drive for the tram. Note the notches in the cable pulley that would engage the the metal pieces on the cable. Empty carriages would come under the pulley and when they were again on top they would be teeth up and ready to run the length of the tramway again. A non powered pulley would have been at the other end so it would do the opposite. Take the carriages and turn them teeth down and put them on the lower track.
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Fascinating
Used to live in the area many years ago! My great grandfather worked on those locomotives back in his hey days! Alot has been taken by scrappers and looting over the years! Thank you for being very respectful in documenting on your video!
I’m very surprised that more luting hadn’t taken place. Still copper on the trains and all those gears are worth big dollars to an Collector for outdoor decorating aesthetics on farm houses. So glad they’re still there for everyone who has the guts to track out. There can see them for men like (Post10) to post & film for all of us who can’t make it to see. Ty ❤
I appreciate you making this video! It's the heritage of our country that's quickly being lost and forgotten over time because of the lack of teaching that has left our classrooms. Thanks for your time in producing this documentary of whick obviously had a road name and meant much to the people working and supporting their families from the viability of it's wealth at some point in time!
Thank you so much for taking us all on an adventure with you. My disability keeps me close to home, but the video helps to elevate the spirit.
Have this place on my list. Looks like it's worth all the effort. Nice job documenting it.
Hey, Jay! It's on my list too, and I'm closer ;) lol
He did such a great job of documenting the place I feel as if I was there, so I'm gonna check this visit off my list. (also I live in Illinois. ;-)
@@MikeT-TheRetiredColonel where is this at? I'm in NH looking for a new adventure!
@@smokeybones598 maine North Woods
Its on my list too
I really just love your content so much! I'm up here on the West Coast of Canada, live in a super rural area with tons of logging history. I love that you take the time to document all the old logging trains and stuff, brings a smile to my face. :D
Imagine your walkin down the track and you here a 1920s steam whistle
That would be Cool and it would probably be a “ghost” engine
Also you would need to get off that track ASAP
@@Maidbit69 Full steam ahead!!! Got to break through all the trees!
*hear
Spielberg's Amazing Stories - Ghost Train.
Post, you remind me of John Chapman, aka, Johnny Appleseed. He traveled through many states in the north planting apple seeds, which account for many of the apple orchards in those areas. He asked for nothing in return and traveled at his own expense. He left the areas better than they were before.
Post travels on his own to areas that need his care and he leaves those areas healthier than when he found them. He asks for nothing in return and travels at his own expense.
On John Chapman’s tombstone, it reads, “He lived for others”. That describes you, Post.
Beautiful
An example of living a good life.
If he planted seeds then the apples weren't fit to eat. You have to graft apple trees. His trees were probably used for fruit to ferment into cider. Also, he planted the weed dogfennel in his travels which will overtake a pasture if you don't spray herbicide. See wikipedia article on him.
Post, you take us to the most historical places.
no he’s just our teacher and we are required to follow along on the field trip
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Nice job giving the tour. Great to see some rare history preserved this way. I wish we had more of this in Canada.
I’d like to think that they have conversations with each other
“You hanging on there Frank?”
“Yeah I’m doing fine.”
The 2 steam locomotives?
“I need a new paint job though”😂
I can paint that engine for $49.95
Earl Shives
@@jasonturner3512 I’d paint it for 2.7 doubloons
@@redcape775-gacha2 that's hilarious!
During the winter of 1926-27, Édouard Lacroix's Madawaska Company used log haulers to move heavy railway equipment overland from Lac-Frontière, Quebec to Churchill Depot and then over frozen Churchill Lake and Eagle Lake. The log haulers delivered two steam locomotives, two Plymouth gasoline-powered switchers, miles of steel rail, and sixty railroad cars for carrying pulpwood. Each railroad car was 32 feet (9.7 m) long with high, slatted sides to hold 12 cords of pulpwood. Three diesel-powered conveyors were built to lift pulpwood logs from Eagle Lake to a height of 25 feet (7.6 m) over a distance of 225 feet (68 m). Each conveyor could fill a railroad car in 18 minutes.
Lacroix completed the Umbazooksus and Eagle Lake Railroad to a pulpwood-unloading trestle at the north end of Umbazooksus Lake. Lacroix's railroad included a 1500-foot (460 m) long trestle across the north end of Chamberlain Lake.
Great Northern Paper Company accepted Lacroix's railroad on June 1st, 1927 and renamed it the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad.
Paper demand declined through the Great Depression until pulpwood transfer ceased in 1933 after the railroad had carried nearly a million cords of pulpwood.
The Plymouth switchers found work elsewhere while the steam locomotives waited in the engine house for improved economic conditions. Great Northern found trucks more cost effective than restoring the railroad when business returned following World War II. The trestle gradually collapsed into Chamberlain Lake, but Maine Forest Service employees continued using a motor vehicle over the two miles of track between Eagle Lake and Chamberlain Lake.
The engine house became a popular snowmobile destination in the 1960’s, and fittings like gauges, bells, headlights, and number plates began to disappear from the locomotives before the wooden cab of engine #1 was destroyed when the engine house burned in 1969. The locomotive boiler jackets and asbestos lagging were removed in 1995 but the stripped locomotive shells remain a unique reminder of the industrial revolution in the Maine North Woods.
Aron a few corrections. There were approx. 40 cars for a maximum of 13 cars per train - one set being loaded, one set being unloaded and the thrid set in transit. Great Northern Paper obtained and provided a Right-of-Way lease to Lacroix for the railroad to pass over. They never owned it ONLY the right-of-way which was leased to Lacroix. Lacroix's Madawaska Co. owned all the rail, the rolling stock, buildings etc. until he sold his holdings to J.D. Irving. We have corporate documents that verify this. Great Northern never renamed it. It was always the EL&WB even on the alignment/profile drawings. Great Northern did indeed own the 5 mile section extending from Umbazooksus to Chesuncook Meadows. This was used to move supplies moved up the lake. The rails for that section were removed in 1936.
I headed up the efforts by the Allagash Alliance Group in jacking the locomotives out of the mud, excavating beneath the locomotives and buld and putting them back on the rails. We had a magnificent group of volunteers. Its hard to beleive that its been over 20 years since we finished that project.
Check out the history of the Lombard Log Hauler - The world's first tracked vehicle - which was used as a precursor and then in conjunction with these railways deep in the woods of Maine.
@@jacquesmoore848 you can see and experience Lombard log haulers in action at the Maine Forest & Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine
I wish there were more things like this being posted/shared on the internet. This is very calming and enjoyable during these stressful times. Thank you! post 10
🤣 they got this stuff all over the internet and better yet in real life too.
Congratulations, you are a one man show. You were able to give your viewing audience a show by doing everything yourself. Your English summary is greatly appreciated.
Looks like standard gauge
Thanks for posting a nice video of the backwoods of Maine, family is from Winthrop, my grandfather worked on Maine RR all his life, retired in 1965 my Dad started on the RR as a machinist before WW2, we used to snowmobile the old tramways, trees don't grow on them, there all over Kennebec Co. Snowmachined up to Canada one time on them. Thanks for the memories, I think I may move back to Maine now that I'm retired. Always felt like an othersider since I was raised in California. Miss my grandparents farm.
First, I would like to say thank you the pausing: some of us like to read the historical facts when posted. Second, this was an awesome adventure to be a part of. You always make the viewers feel like we are there.......greatly appreciated. 👍😎
I was there in 1981 while canoeing on the Allagash. The locomotives were just about tipped over back then. they did a nice job fixing that area up. Thanks for the video.
My grandfather would've loved too see these!! He was a railroad engineer. He always talked about the power of Steam!!
Great memories and history to last a lifetime bless your family 👍👍
Thank You so much for your tour! Loved every bit of it. The comments provided some glowing accounts of history regarding this long ago railroad😍
This was such a mighty interesting video! A big thank you to you Post for taking us along and teaching us about the history of the Eagle Lake Tramway. Well done!
You are remarkable. Seriously remarkable. You must be such an interesting man to know in 'real life'. Thank you for a truly outstanding video. You are the best.
OH GOSH😅😆
Fascinating piece of history. From Wisconsin and love any information on our history. Sad that this site was not properly cared for. Thank you!
Hey thanks for taking us on a tour, it looks like such a wonderful opportunity to see such a neat place.
It’s such a shame that these once great locomotives are just left to rot. I know it would be Uber expensive to get them out of that remote area but still. Thank you so much for sharing this outstanding video
I'm sure that someday they'll be restored.
I am sure capitalism will fix it.
If they were underwater they'd be artificial reefs!
They probably could of at least scrap them when they had the tracks
You can built trails through it, boom its a tourist adventure hiking destination
This is crazy! Took 5 hours on a dirt road to get here....never ever heard that this railway existed...Post, I have no idea how you find this stuff....but it's so cool!
That is probably why scrappers haven’t taken anything be nice if someone could haul it all out and restore it
Well that explains why the steel didn't get collected for the WWII war effort
Its definitely a pretty rugged haul to get up there. Its really only about 2.5 hours from the last shreds of civilization, a town called Millinocket. But its true, there isn't really any graphitti out there and other damage because low lifes wouldn't take the time and effort to drive and hike all the way out to it.
@@mainelylinux Keep in mind this is after winter and they did not fix the potholes or washouts yet, very rough.Yes it took 2 hours in my newest video of the place last wook
Thanks for posting your video's. Ive been house bound since Feb 2020. You're saving what's left of my mind.
Thank you Post 10 for sharing this historical site and providing so much info about everything there!! It was so cool to see the trains and all the cool stuff inside them and the logging site!!! 😃 It felt like I was joining you on a field trip 😉 I hope one day I can take my sons to see this, I think they would love it!! My parents took me and my brother to Maine for vacation once back when we were kids and I remember it was such a beautiful place!!! We were at Bar Harbor, Maine. 🙂 Thanks again Post 10 for another amazing video!!! 😀❤
when post 10 upload a video, MUST WATCH. Great content, and the commentary is like story telling. Thank you
This was one of the top things to see on my bucket list. Now, if I don't get there before I die, this awesome video has made me happy. I always thought you could ONLY reach it by boat or by boondocking through the forest. I have run the Golden Road many years ago, camped in many campgrounds, but never saw these engines and never ran the est Penobscot.
I remembering canoeing across eagle lake with my father about 20 miles into the allagash. Wind whipping 30 mph and arms and shoulders just obliterated. Most memorable trip of my lifetime. Created the best memory’s with my father who passed few years later. Will never forget what it feels like to be away from reality and not care at all.....
My Father was a Railroad man and I am a retired forester so this brought back many memories! When I started my Forestry career in late 70s trains were still being used in certain places of our country but mostly trucks.
All I can say is WOW! I would love to kayak to that location.
Thank you for this production!
For those who aren't into the walking through forest types to see these trains. The Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum in Michigan is an excellent place to see locomotives of the era. All well preserved. I got to attend a company Christmas party, of all things, at the museum. Historically it was like a Christmas present.
David S In the 70s when I was a Girl Scout we got to camp indoors overnight next to the locomotives at GF Village. I was a little freaked out because they’re so big! I was very young but I remembered I had a good time!
There's a place in Indiana that I went to when I was in school (field trip) I wanna say it was I winamac. (Not sure I was a kid) they had a working one that we went on for a ride. Very awesome experience
Thank you for sharing this fascinating place, I'm glad you took the time to explore everywhere and show the information posters it helped explain what we had been seeing. I found myself going back and forth looking at things again.
You have a great way of not only making this interesting but also somewhat mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing this great location!
A most interesting subject well portrayed. I love Maine, when I can get there, and this is not an area I would have ever known of or traveled to. Thank you for taking me there.
Really enjoyed watching this. Nice to not have background music and just be able to enjoy the sounds of nature. Was really relaxing. I could almost smell the forest.
So neat to have this place all to yourself while you did the video. I would have never thought a place like this existed. Thanks for sharing. This was a really cool video. 👍
My 5 year old son loves this video and he would never normally have an attention span for a long video - great work!
Thanks for sharing your adventures and happiness in being in the outdoors
Thank you so very much. I could never go there myself, what a service.
Thanks for the badass vid POST!!! You're a true modern day explorer...you must've had a blast. Thanks brother.
I don't know how I got here...or why I clicked on an hour long video of some dude walking around looking at trains but my grandfather would be proud I actually got into it and enjoyed it. He was an Engineer for the OC&E and later Southern Pacific. Thanks for the interesting walk through history.
Wow! This video is fantastic! Thank you from California! Looks like a great place to visit! I love the history and I love trains! If only Doc Emmett Brown and Marty McFly could take us back in time for real! Imagine what it was like when these beautiful machines were alive and kicking!
Whenever I watch videos like this, I always find it sad that people couldn’t or didn’t care enough to sell the engines to a new railway and left them to rust when they could have been used elsewhere
IMO, better to have them be here to be explored for years, rather than have them be scrapped like the majority of steam engines
Fire burned paint rusted way faster in storage , or round house if left out there initially would have been better., once decommissioned hard to sell usual step was scrap for war effort in mid 40s , or basically abandoned..👍✌️🙏😸🤔
People have been looting and wrecking those trains for the last 50 years. About every part that could easily be stolen has been stolen off them. When you visit them and see what little of the trains is actually left, its really sad..
Thank you so much for the excellent narrative tour of the abandoned railway. Due to health reasons, I would never had been able to see it myself.
You are really prepared.
Good going! Glad you informed us about those rocks, too.
I have ancestors that worked in lumber yards taking wood out by trains in the early 1900's. It was very informative to see the process! Thanks
Most interesting. I've known about the engines for decades but never knew about the freight cars or tramway. Great post.
That first boiler you came to looks to be from a saddle tank type steam engine. It might have been for a 0-4-0T or 0-6-0T version. The two steam engines are awesome looking. Looks like a 4-6-0 Ten-wheeler type. That would be a historic find to restore as there are no Ten-wheeler type steam engines that survived. The other is an orginal designed Consolidation Class 2-8-0 - WOW!
_"That would be a historic find to restore as there are no Ten-wheeler type steam engines that survived."_ I guess you've never heard of 4-6-0 Sierra Railway #3. It was built in 1891 by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. From Wikipedia: "Sierra Railway No. 3 has appeared in more motion pictures, documentaries, and television productions than any other locomotive."
Treedom Vellacroix : I watched Sierra no. 3 on TV back in the 1960s when I was a kid. The show was called Petticoat Junction. I've known about Sierra no. 3 for a long time.
Yeah. Its a 4-6-0 built at the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1897. Both came to Maine from the New York Central. It would be a tough restoration. All the heavy steel is still there but everything that could be removed has been removed over the years its been there. The state also came through about 25 years ago and totally wrecked the boilers to "save" people out in the woods from asbestos.
@@rafaucettYeah, and many more Ten wheeler survived
thank you for traveling so far to show us a lost treasure
I’m lucky to have the Illinois Railway Museum less than an hour away. Beautiful old engineering. Thank you for taking us along.
Very cool how the old railroad switch just grew right into the tree 8:15 😁👍
Thanks for the cool tour!
This type of mechanical engineering is a marvel to me. All parts turned, cast and made by hand, no computers like today doing the math.
I am amazd by the beautiful nature and all the bird noises that I'm not familiar with. And of course the old railway stuff is really interesting! Would love to visit this place myself if it wasnt so far away (from germany).
Probably one of the second most isolated areas in the US aside from portions of Alaska
You just want to visit here but there is someone here who just wants to visit your country.
@@oipolloi4242 Lol Maine? What? It’s not isolated at all ? Why are you spreading false info
it is alot of fun going on vacation with you thank you for sharing your adventures!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a senior lady reliving alot of memories I had as young person!!!!!!!
Nice long video about abandoned trains in the woods. I really enjoyed that. Thanks. Interesting stuff.
Fantastic, something I will never get to see. Thank you
You had to find a way to blame those beavers 😆
Thanks for taking us along on your adventure! Very interesting. I enjoyed it very much.
😎👍 Thanks... I love hiking and exploring abandoned and forgotten places.
And off he goes into the dark and scary woods!
Blair witch!!! LOL 😆
ALONE 😲
And wearing a high-visibility vest is a wise choice, when in the back woods of Maine.
Deep in the middle of the dark dark wood, there lived a horrible horrendous, terrible tremendous...
@@rexman971Looking at the muddy tracks in the scary woods was terrifying!
Thank you Post for another amazing video. Makes you think how tough things were to transport 100's of tons of loco, track, machinery across impossible marshland in winter and summer.
But heed your own advice man, go carefully. A broken leg in that kind of country with no phone and no-one around is not what we wanna watch!
Thank you for sharing. These are beautiful representation of history that need to be protected. It is sad to see the decay of history. I hope preservation funds can be used to protect these.
I appreciate the chances to read the signs, so thanks for focusing on the signs so I could pause and read.
As a railway enthusiast, this is incredibly interesting!
FlyingScotFilms - Dax I live in Parrish, Florida where we have some kind of train museum. I have never been there so I can't say whether it's good or bad, or whether it's worth going or not but since you are a railway enthusiast I thought I would mention it to you. Idk whether train museums are common or rare.
Ok so I was watching this and what felt like 20 minutes later it ended and I thought oh its over I'll find something else to watch then I saw that I watched this for 1 hour...
This is amazing
Got to hand it to ya you did great camera work alongside with narrative information.I always enjoy your videos, to bad some people don't appreciate your work on the flooded areas . keep up the great work.
Thank you this was super cool to watch. Thanks for sharing another one of your adventures 😀
Thank you for sharing with us the trains and woods, moose sightings and everything else. 💚💚
90 years wow. I’m from Maine and this is amazing.
Thank you for the tour. I don't have to miss these trains now due to your efforts.:)
This is amazing! Thanks for taking us along. God bless
What you called the coal/oil tank is actually a water tank. Coal was shoveled in from the tender behind the locomotive. Oil or fuel was piped forward in a similar fashion.
Water was boiled into steam from the coal/fuel fire in the fire box.
Steam was used to drive the engine.
If i lived closer, i could easily put the engines in a state of suspended decay..i also applaud the statement on safety and respecting private property !
thanks for that great video from Germany! Without you I'd never would have known about this.
Also with Covid lockdown still being tough here, it wa a great Virtual walk with you. Things like that keep my sane atm, thank you! :)
@post 10 - The patina on the large train engine would make an AWESOME CAMOFLAGE PATTERN!!! I’ve never seen anything like it and I love it!! I paused several times to take screen shots from different angles so I could attempt to duplicate it on future projects... Excellent video, I can really appreciate the time and effort you spend on these adventures... I honestly don’t know how u do it all without someone keeping u company. I don’t know if i could do it man! 😂
I also don’t know that I’d be able to fight the temptation to remove some of the components lying around there!! Some of it I’d imagine are worth quite a bit, but all of the GEARS ⚙️ BEARINGS, PULLEYS, CHAINS, etc id LOVE to take home to fully restore and hold onto...
Amazing stuff man
the history that is lost and decaying in our states are amazing. thanks for this vid.
people are decaying in the streets but ppl don't give a shit about those, yet many psychopaths get all teared up because of some scrap iron rusting in the woods. hilarious
@@MrSvenovitch Because losers in society have not achieved what the great men who strived forth to conquer nature did 100 years ago, with machines that seem foreign to use today, made of materials that last for 100 years left out and abandoned.
god, imagine this place in it's prime
would've been a sight to see
Thanks for taking us along
Great video!!!!! Thank you for sharing, lot of cool history there...... Did a amazing job on the video sharing all the info. Love seeing the old and historic stuff and railroads🚂🚂
That was bloody great post! Love the old steam machinary. And railways. We have lots over here in England. But a lot of it was scrapped for the war effort back in the day.. Great content as usual. If I ever went on Holiday to the US. I wouldn't bother with LA. Or NYC etc. I'd go to your neck of the woods.. 😃
And you sir would not regret your choice.
NYC is cool, at least before corona virus, haven't really been to LA myself, but I also live in New England (hours drive south of this though, in Rhode Island), and there are a ton of nature trails and other historical sites you can see in this region of the country (North East US), from the nature shown in this video, to Naval and old whaling ship historical artifacts closer to where I live/where one of the main active Navy submarine bases still exists in Groton CT, but the surrounding area has a "long" (for our standards) history since it's where the US started. I've only been to Maine a few times mostly as a kid, but New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine have some absolutely beautiful forests, mountains, and stuff like post10 shows in this video. We also have nature trails in RI, CT, and the Western Massachusetts extending into upstate New York (nothing like the city) region. I recently hauled a small trailer of someone's belongings out to western Mass and was amazed at how beautiful it was... nothing like the Boston area (which is also nice, though). If you're into this kind of stuff you should definitely visit the region. I remember certain roads in Maine with signs warning drivers to fill up their vehicle with fuel at the next station because "no gas for 50 miles" and stuff like that... really is an awesome part of the country. :)
(On the other hand, there are some amazing sights out west, too. Yellowstone, Rocky Mountains areas, some truly amazing pieces of nature. There is a lot more to the US than the cities and stuff you hear about on the "news". You'll find everything from dense urban cities to breathtaking nature.. it's such a huge country and why you don't really need a passport if you want to travel and see cool stuff here.)
It would be so cool if they took and cleaned off the entire section of rails to show where it used to run. Sort of restore it so that it doesn't get lost forever...
Yee, but whom would pay for that ? Very big expense
@@soillife1 So was restoring some of the largest steam locomotives in the world, but it happened, so this could too!
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Johnathan Voshell I have mixed feeling about that. It would be cool not to lose the human history on one hand. But on the other hand, humans leave their marks everywhere on Earth and destroy natural settings. Wouldn't it be nice for once to have unnatural human impact on nature be erased? Why do we have to leave our mark and history on everything? Not sure which side of the fence I would pick,
@@katiekat4457 There's still plenty of untouched land out there, don't worry about it. Personally I'd just get the locomotives out of there and restore them and use them elsewhere as a tourist attraction.
Thanks so much for the guided tour. Just like being there. Some real nice footage. I really like old locomotives and machinery. It's a shame they didn't try to preserve everything a little better.
Thanks for showing this video. It's just so sad to let this RR go to heck like this.
Man, you sure are enjoying these old trains, and I would do the same if I were there too! You don't leave out any details, which is great.
My late father would've flipped to see this video. He worked 35 years for Southern Pacific Railroad and it was in his blood❣
What a wonderful video! That was so fun, thanks for making and sharing it!
First time I've seen one of your videos,,,,it will not be the last. I really enjoyed it. If someone is reading this before watching the video , I recommend it if your into old trains especially.
To me it's saddening to see steam locos like this just left to rot
I’m sorry
Aww....
Well one loco is not scapped and its the flying scotsman
Awesome long video I watched and enjoyed the whole thing. I love how mother nature slowly reclaims all unmaintained land and materials over time.
Very, VERY interesting! You did a GREAT job showing the place! Thx for the excellent video!
Thank you for posting this trip thru history. It's fascinating to see this stuff and imagine the effort required to build it and only use it for 6 seasons (years?) and then abandon it. I'd like to try and find more info about the motivation to build and reason for the demise of this endeavor. You have sparked my interest, thanks again and Happy New Year. Well I just saw your Oct '20 video and you answered my ? as to why this was abandoned. 1933, the depression and trucks. Thanks for the update.
nothing last forever its amazing to see how mother nature takes back everything