Building PVC Track for a Homemade Rideable Train
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2024
- For the last six months, I've been tinkering with a rideable train for my nieces and nephews that would live at my parents' house in Georgia. I've finally gotten it to a place where it operates consistently. I'm ready to start laying the track.
In this video, I give an update on how I got the train to this point and show how I build the track out of PVC pipe and wood.
Stick around to the end to see me test the top speed of the train. EEK!
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What is your wheelbase like the width of your track? I’m trying to decide if I can hack a go kart frame and I have a wider one and the skinnier one. Thanks so much love your project.
If you want to make curved tracks, just stake the inside rail down in the desired shape, then use your template to screw down the other side. The geometry of having 1 side longer will force it to keep its curved shape when you remove the stakes and pick it up.
Although this was posted a year ago, so I bet you figured something out by now
This video is seriously underrated! Congrats on making a personal train without any background engineering! That's something that you can brag about for years to come.
You are a genius. I love it
Such an awesome video! Can't wait to see how your project evolves.
Just a friendly FYI , PVC will get brittle outdoors. It might help to paint it. I'm in NV & exposed PVC doesn't last very long here.
Cool idea that is adorable.
Have a good time with your prodject.
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to make a curve track try this... put curve metal inside the PVC pipe and that will give you small curves.
good evening..great project..simple and reliable..👍
Man, that's great the way you have been able to put that together. And it's a great project that you can work together with your family. The kids are gonna love it. Keep it up while trying to keep the cost down and keep the rest of us informed with more video when you get the chance. Just curious though, how you gonna work the corners? You can "soften" the pvc with a heat gun so maybe that will help.
Outstanding my friend!
You are doing great, if it works, then you are doing it right.
I think this is fantastic add a stop at a pumpkin patch and hot apple cider and you got something no grandkids yet but I'm planning lol
I doesn’t matter if you did everything wrong. Because you have a working train now. Now just improve on what you have already learned about your build. You did a Great job.
Very cool! Walt would be proud!
Thanks Tony! I hope so!
an amzing project ...you dont need degrees, just the desire to create...also if you were to (while running disconnect the wires to the motor IE with relays and touch motors positive and negative together it will cause an electric brake effect)essentially a second braking device or with a distance sensor create auto braking at the end of the line.....
Great insight! Love those ideas! Thanks!
This is awesome man my son loves trains he’s autistic he cannot get enough of them I manufacture custom kids pedal planes and my son doesn’t care about airplanes at all it’s a part of me wants to try out this train building thing looks like you’re making good progress keep up the good work
I dig the brave ambition.
How's the train track coming along? Can we see an updated video if available? Thank you.
Lucky kids, Good Job!
Love this!! I've been dreaming for years of building my own backyard rubber-tire guided "Peoplemover" or AGT (Automated Guideway Transit) system - I know it's an unconventional dream (most people just want a backyard railway). While searching for some information I stumbled across your video. Love your ambition!
Can you tell me a bit more about the motor, controller and batteries? That's the part I get a bit hung up on - so many options out there...
Thanks again and good luck with the rest of the project!
That sounds like a great plan! I used a golf kart motor. Here's a link! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TLCGQ2L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@@JeremiahDaws Thank you very much for the reply! :)
Quite possibly this is the most authentically cool video I've seen all week! Going to check out your others, especially the "I quit my job to go to school" video. Wishing you the best of success!
Genius, PVC track!
Can you make another video about this going into more detail about how you connected the motor batteries and stuff together?
Make at least one set of wheels (a set of wheels on a train is known as a truck) rotate, so it follows curves. Also, put an angle on the side of the flange that contacts the rail.
Like what the dude above said cuase as it stands right now your engine is to long for any sharp curves. Other wise forget about bend your pvc pipe track. Pvc will flex a little bit on its own without any heat and that flex just might be enough for your current engine to traverse the curve. But much smarter to building a truck for the empowered part of yer train engine.
Good point about the beveled wheels! Recently saw a video about “why are train wheels beveled”, (so they can go around corners)
I love this so much, Jer!
Patrick Southern Patrick!! Thanks so much!
Awesome stuff! Keep the videos coming!
Sean McHugh thanks! Will do!
Awesome jer
You might want to consider adding a ‘limit switch’ near the end of the track. This would prevent running off the end of track. It would take two main pieces. The electric switch on the loco which when ‘tripped’ will kill the power to the motor. And an ‘arm’ of sorts near the end of the track to toggle the switch to the open/off position. There are various switch styles available online, and the activation arm can be anything you cobble up that will trigger the switch.
Looks fantastic ,all the best.
I love your PVC train! The easiest way to curve PVC is with either a heat gun or an electric stove top. I recommend cutting patterns out of wood, one for the inside rail, one for the outside rail. Backyard Bowyer on youtube taught me everything I know about PVC.
This dude is literally re-inventing the wheel.
great job for a guy with no background. Keep it up
Cool, I'm planning to build one this year. Seen a lot of roller coaster videos, but haven't seen anyone motorize it.
Great video...👍
Thank you 👍
GREAT JOB IT WORKS I LIKE IT
Regarding curves... I did a UA-cam search for "how a train stays on the tracks" which yielded some good results. Seems your wheels need more angle and tapering at the flange.
That's so crazy, it's cool!
Making the rail from PVC pipe is pretty clever! :-)
Where’d you find the axles?
Nice work
Loving how much story there is in the video! The crash at the end was fun too.
Mitchell Thomas thanks! That means a lot to me as I know you are a connoisseur!
Did you say what size pvc pipe you used? I know a guy who uses 1/2 inch, but I’d need to use 3/4 or 1”, to keep my flanges off the cross ties.
I think it’s 1.5”. Had the same issue. Needed more height.
Loving these Jeremiah! So good and inspiring! I want one next!
Ryan Monette thanks Ryan! Let me know if you ideas for the outer shell!
@@JeremiahDaws I'll be pondering it and let you know if any ideas come to mind!
Definitely can empathize, as I'm working on something very similar to this, and there's a LOT of trial and error involved.
Making curves isn't too hard, you just link the pipes together into a circle and use your track gauge to keep the spacing right as you secure the rails to the ties. The more pipes in the circle, the wider the curve will be when it's finished.
Shipwright1918 I can’t keep the train on the track. It hits the curve and jumps. I’ve been researching conical wheels and such the way train wheels work. But it’s a little too advanced for me. Haha.
@@JeremiahDaws
It might be that your flanges are too short, the actual disk needs to be cut about an inch larger than the wheel itself for the flange to grip the rails.
It also might be that the curve is too tight for your loco to negotiate, try lessening the curvature and see if that helps. Barring that, you might try taking the flanges off your middle wheels to make them "blind", so the loco can negotiate tighter turns, it's a trick both real railroads and model railroads use.
If u look at the Lionel trans from the past. The lead wheels are on a turning pivot. Would that help? Also I saw this and went wow. That would be great to use in my home for my handicapped son to get around. How can we make contact to talk about this? Please and thank you 😊
@HostileAuthority
The wheels on the pivot are called "pony" or "lead truck" wheels. They're not powered, but are there specifically to help guide a steam locomotive through curves, as are any wheels on a pivot behind the driving wheels, the "trailing truck", they guide the locomotive around curves going in reverse as well as supporting the weight of the back end of the locomotive.
Not all locomotives had lead/trailing trucks, it should be mentioned.
Your a good man
where are you at with the train nowadays?
Doubles as a camera dolly!
Aaron Blevins that’s true!
Can it go around a curve?
I know this is a year later and you might have already figured this out, but blow torches and heat guns will help, but just don't char it. Run the torch/guns along the length of the pipe until slightly bendy and put into a jig (plywood and some long screws set following a pre-determined curve) to cool. This would be a 2-3 person job. I don't see any other videos on this project in your channel. Please update us!
You can bend pvc pipe with heat gun. Keep up the good work.
Hey great job. The most important thing in engineering is "it works". I'm a backyard inventor from Australia and had a couple of suggestions:
Bending PVC pipe with sand is quite easy once you make the wooden formwork to lay the pipes in. You need two forms, one for the outside track and one for the inside. You only need two caps per pipe and they just need to be taped on, nothing fancy. You can decide on a curve radius and just make all the curves to that radius so that you only need to make two forms.
When you do the corners, the tracks need to be slightly further apart than they are on the straights.
To create the forms, take a garden hose and lay it on the ground to get a rough idea of the curve radius you want. Then use a string pegged into the ground on one end and position it so that the other end follows radius of the garden hose. Tie a marker pen to the free end and trace out the curve onto plywood pieces. Do the same for the inside curve by shortening the string by the width of the tracks. As I'm sure you know, the rest of the process is covered in numerous online videos.
For the unit with three pairs of wheels you need to take the flanges off the middle wheels. If you don't, they will jam up the moment you try to go around a corner and may well rip one or more of the flanges off. Rubber wheels on PVC have a lot of friction and you might have to consider changing to plastic or steel wheels. The wheels need to skid slightly in order to go around corners smoothly, especially if you haven't included a differential on the drive wheels.
I've subscribed to your channel and I'm looking forward to seeing the next instalment. Cheers!
I've always thought of using a ride on mower with train wheels on it .
yeah me too, I was inspired from Way out west blow-in blog, he started making a railroad with flat irons and 2 by 4s. Made me want to build a utility rail road with my lawn tractor to move stuff around the yard.
Would you mind sharing what electronics you used?
Sure. I used this kit. Mophorn Electric Permanent Magnet Motor 48V DC 1000 Watt with Controller & Pedal & Ignition Key 11Tooth 25Chain Sprocket and Mounting Bracket for Go Karts Scooters & E-Bike a.co/d/gSDfV2e
do a tutorial and the pricing, i wanna try to make this
Remove the wooden disks on the centre axle out of 3 otherwise you wont get around any bends
just caught this vid. On the turns you use same size steel pipe and have it bent as needed
There was an article about a setup like this in the January/February issue of Livesteam and Outdoor Railroading magazine, which you may want to check out if you have not already!
I'm curious what motor you used?
Got it off Amazon. This was the title. Mophorn Electric Permanent Magnet Motor 48V DC 1000 Watt with Controller & Pedal & Ignition Key 11Tooth 25Chain Sprocket and Mounting Bracket for Go Karts Scooters & E-Bike a.co/d/2pYwoXY
I subscribed to see more of this.
Looks like a lot of fun! For the curves (or even the tracks themselves, I suppose, could those be made of wood with roundovers on the top if the "tube" portion of the track is important? Regardless, I was thinking that you could do some sort of bent lamination to achieve the curves in the track, though it would be a heck of a jig since I'm sure you'd need several feet to achieve a safe radius for the train. Great job as always, though!
I like this, I have 10 acres and am thinking about doing something like this, but using a riding mower for the engine. Is that 1” pvc and 1X6 planks that you used for the track?
Nice! I believe it was 1.25 or 1.5. I know it was bigger than 1". Can't remember exactly. The planks we're 1x4s I think.
@@JeremiahDaws thank you for the response, I am still in the idea phase of my plan and am doing research on what I may need to do. I know that load weight will definitely be a factor as far as the track goes, as I plan on having the engine pulling 3-4 rolling stock.
@@chiefmora8469 that sounds amazing. Send me some pics when you get it going!
@@JeremiahDaws sure will
Cool
What kind of motor did you use?
Mophorn Electric Permanent Magnet Motor 48V DC 1000 Watt with Controller & Pedal & Ignition Key 11Tooth 25Chain Sprocket and Mounting Bracket for Go Karts Scooters & E-Bike a.co/d/dNgYcmw
Use some pallet wood to build padded rude on boxes with wheels for kiddos and get a harbor freight go cart gas engine the predators for 140 bucks give it more power
And thank you so much for the idea of using PVC pipe I can build me one using like a go-kart frame type layouts that I got to build a go-kart frame that I can use that go kart frame blueprints I got to build my train with I'm going to use a go-kart frame that I'm building from scratch it's like a old style to racing go-kart frame and I'll put a harbor freight engine on it and use the same PVC pipe as you that way the frame can hold two or three people and that go-kart from her build it longer this one extended and build it longer than what it needs to be than put two or three seats on it one big enough for me to get in the front and then two more big big enough for little kids for my kids and their friends I'm going to build one about maybe 3/4 of a mile is how big the total track length will be going to be a lot of work a lot of money but worth it in the end so thanks for the idea it's basically going to loop around my whole property
want something for dogs only. Dogs love RIDES even more than kids do!!
You may have seen this video on making pvc track. He uses the gray variety because it degrades less in the sun. Also includes how he does curves.ua-cam.com/video/6QtXXLVomp8/v-deo.html
Make some chassis and extend the track
Maybe you could make it so the train actually has metal plates on it so you don’t see the engine in it.
Very awsome❤❤
That is so cool, Jeremiah! The next phase could be the most important: developing funny "Burma Shave style" signs to put next to the track. :D
Research 'Bogie' 👍
I give you a lot of credit on your overall design and execution for your actual train build I would keep it simple at first try building the first prototype out of cardboard and tape when you get the look you are going for you will be able to use that cardboard as templates to mark out onto whatever you are going to build the actual train out of I’m guessing plywood, FYI you can bend or manipulate PVC piping with any heat source you can buy a cheap propane torch wand from Ebay and use a 20lb barbecue tank it’s not necessary to get all involved with heating sand although the sand could help prevent kinking on thinner pipe I would try using some trees and a harbor freight come along that’s under 20 dollars The buck or form idea is good if you had to make lots of the same parts , but I’m assuming you are more making a one off track on your parents property with only a few turns and radius parts ? I would be inclined to think you might be able to bend those in place maybe even using some metal pipe to “Spike “ the tracks in place black pipe and electrical conduit are usually the lower priced choices
Needs more buckets
Music and Lyrics oh, I can add more buckets!!!
I’ve been thinking about an idea of my own like this for a while and I am exited to know someone else has tried my same idea!
Maybe I'll make one
You should decorate your train to look like a steam locomotive
That’s the plan. Just haven’t gotten around to it. Haha. One day.
You could probably bend pvc with a heat gun.
What type of electric motor did he use??
WorldIn Madness it was a brushed motor. 48v. Found it on amazon.
@@JeremiahDaws oh, thank you:) Ive been looking into building one of these myself out of wood, and the first thing im looking for is a strong-enough motor.
USE A E BIKE DRIVE KIT
Make a body for the train out of plastic sheeting
Where is an update?
My mom passed away and my dad sold their house so I had to scrap the project.
@@JeremiahDaws sorry to hear. That's a bummer from all sorts of angles. My condolences.
At least it inspired many of us to give it try. I don't know how to weld though... so I have to learn that first.
That's a complete update in just one sentence. Thanks for the response and your time, and again, I'm sorry. God bless you and your family.
Rust free track
Jeremiah Daws... lolol hey clark... lol u should of used a old go kart frame.. you can cut it in half an re weld it faster then ur build... no? i would like to do something in my city forest yard if your looking to talk over and help.. i have a shop there house and all tools to make a nice size one... let me know lets talk i have good ideas and can do all work to get done just need someone thats down.... or any other you tube out there looking too take on this idea??
It will be difficult to drive curves
"groovy track" using steel in a size such as 1/4" x 1". steel is set vertical in groove in wood tie
make a round track
Why you didn't build real scale track? Why not bigger for yard? XD
My mom wasn’t happy about the size of this track. Bigger would have been crazy! Haha.
Thomas