I've never seen a private overhead electrical power system. Very impressive. Perfect scale if you have more than an acre or two of land. The car looks awesome!
oh wow i've been trying to search for this channel for about 15 years. i remember seeing the birney ride videos when i was a kid but could never find them again. thanks to the algorithm for reuniting me with this incredible railway!
I was giggling with excitement throughout the whole video! Amazing to see the old girl still runs as smooth as ever! Glad to see it, hopefully it can get the 119 treatment, now that would be outstanding!
What an amazing little railway, so much character and charm especially with the overhead power. My 5 cents on the sleepers is maybe soak them in oil to repel what looked like white ant damage. And as for rodents buy the latest generation baits because the earlier bait styles seem to have no effect on pesky destructive rodents.
You can see why concrete ties/sleepers are a thing. The dirt floor of your car barn invites critters to have a snack. So much hard work. Thanks for sharing your progress with us.
I would be tempted to pour a concrete floor for the whole car shed. It would solve the tie rotting problem and give you a nice clean place to perform repairs, maintenance, and/or rebuilds. Tracks, of course, would be bolted to, and level with, the floor.
@@UK_parliament_English for arguments sake i would say whichever was there first remains. If the tree grew around the track it should have been copsed earlier. If the track was laid to near the tree it should be repositioned. It is a simple question of priorities and nothing more.
Now there's some serious interurban trial and error! I love how that car looks and I'm sure you will get it running and looking even better. You have a fantastic railroad and great equipment to run on it. Keep it up!
Wow, just stumbled on this video completely at random. Thank you for taking us along - a fascinating process to get this boxmotor back on the rails and it was beautiful to see and hear it running!
Love this railroad! Its fantastic to see that you have the inspiration and interest to keep this going. The original group is smiling down upon you! Love the CA&E inspired shed by the way!
Well, I would move the track around the tree, making a bigger radius. Then I would renovate the car in green with gold pinstripes. Fit some bench seats, then advertise for support by offering trips around the woodland, ext ext. People love things like that, you could pick a nice spot to have Tea/Coffee with snacks? Go for it, I believe you will do well.
I've dug out a couple of broken sleepers in a yard from underneath a derailed wagon that got an earth fault . It's awkward but we got it done , moved a Timber over and re chaired it . Appreciate the work to get dug out and gauged . 👍
For the the ones who love rail in general, Im sure things like this have been in our imagination .... suddenly a YT channel got it for real. Nice set up, really love it !!!!!!!!!.
That was so cool I really like what you did it's amazing you got it to work too bad that stupid tree was in the way so I look forward to seeing when you get rid of the tree and complete the circuit good luck nice job.
@@CNW4145Just stumbled onto your videos. Grew up with this in my front yard. Got to ride on a couple of the cars back in the 70’s. Fun to watch it evolve over the years.
Found this video a while back but just got round to watching it. Never heard of the RRVT Railway before but color me interested! I do love little private lines, narrow gauge and, well, I'm not sure I can call the boxmotor here a trolley per say, but it's very reminiscent of one to me. Looking forward to seeing more.
What a great entertaining & fun instructive video. This is the first video of yours that I have seen. I enjoyed it so much that I have given it a like & I have also subscribed. Thank you again.
What a great set up, lots of work ahead of you. Ime in Bendigo in Australia and we have a working tram museum still operating on the roads of Bendigo, one of very few in AUS. Well done, best of luck with it.
Herrliches Fahrzeug ! Und nach 10 Jahren Herumstehen sogar noch gängig, da würde ich an den Vorwiderständen am Motor nichts ändern. Nur sowas übersteht so lange Stehzeiten mit Mäusen und Eichhörnchen. Dazu würde ich auch das Original nicht zerstören wollen, was mit Transistorsteuerung der Fall wäre. Metallteile, Kabel und den Wagenkasten überarbeiten, sowie eventuell neue Verglasung (so welches drin war) das wird schon ein schönes Stück Arbeit. Und das Ergebnis ist sicher eine Augenfreude.
🤣 paint the numbers...5309 under the current car number! 🤣 Awesome video Brother. I wish I was financially and physically able to help with your joy, I mean toys! 🤣🤣🤣 Can I come over and play? 🤣👍✌️ You're blessed with this. I know it's a lot of work, but it ain't work if it's fun. Good luck and God bless. 🙏🙌🌞👍✌️
Narrow gauge railways in the UK often use plastic recycled sleepers especially for replacement in situ. Lasts forever, and termite proof I assume as we don't have such pests.
We have plenty of pesky termites, but they dont bother the treated ties until the treatment is gone. I've looked at using plastic ties several times, but they are so expensive. You would think that someone would be happy to get rid of melted milk jugs and bottles but they charge nearly $20 per tie. I get my wood from lumberyards that have rejected stock, like its too warped or has breaks in it so its much cheaper to buy. I can get a wood tie for about $2-$3 and they last at least 25 years so the cost of plastic just doesnt make sense unfortunately.
Hahahahaha yes if you could have heard me groaning as I tried to move that thing it would have been a little more evident where the power was coming from lol
That box motor is a real beauty! I'm surprised that anything can roll past that tree on the curve. Since the car barn has been home base for the locos for so long and probably forever from now on, has a concrete floor with the rails set into it ever been considered?
Vinegar and water to wet the ground with first and the powder to help dry out on top outside barriers to lock in the bugs with. It dries out from the inside out of their shells. Blocking out the oxygen and blood flow.
Better take a ride with your leaf blower blowing the dry leaves from near the rails. Dry leaves combined with sparking wheels can lead to an awkward outcome.
I've never seen a private overhead electrical power system. Very impressive. Perfect scale if you have more than an acre or two of land. The car looks awesome!
How does that work? I can't see a continuous electrical line or the car touching anything overhead?
There aren't many of them around, that is for sure!
@@CNW4145 very unique I love it!
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I would love to see a video on the full history of the line. such an intriguing line! looking forward to the new videos!
oh wow i've been trying to search for this channel for about 15 years. i remember seeing the birney ride videos when i was a kid but could never find them again. thanks to the algorithm for reuniting me with this incredible railway!
Welcome back, glad you found us again!
I was giggling with excitement throughout the whole video!
Amazing to see the old girl still runs as smooth as ever!
Glad to see it, hopefully it can get the 119 treatment, now that would be outstanding!
It will be getting some updates, so stay tuned!
What an amazing little railway, so much character and charm especially with the overhead power. My 5 cents on the sleepers is maybe soak them in oil to repel what looked like white ant damage. And as for rodents buy the latest generation baits because the earlier bait styles seem to have no effect on pesky destructive rodents.
Fantastic! Thank you for letting us look over your shoulder and go for a ride. Good luck with the tree issue.
You can see why concrete ties/sleepers are a thing. The dirt floor of your car barn invites critters to have a snack. So much hard work. Thanks for sharing your progress with us.
I would be tempted to pour a concrete floor for the whole car shed. It would solve the tie rotting problem and give you a nice clean place to perform repairs, maintenance, and/or rebuilds. Tracks, of course, would be bolted to, and level with, the floor.
You are right. While the concrete mixer is around, I would also add an inspection pit - nearly indispensible in a maintenance shed
@@gianfranconicola8645 And with a 220V motor he could run the thing off of the catenary.
@@douro20 Sorry, I can't get what you mean
There actually is an inspection pit in the barn already :)
@@gianfranconicola8645 He could hang a hook on the catenary for power.
That sure seems like a lot of sparks down at the wheels, especially around all those dry leaves and dead grass 😮
Seems to me you got no choice, you can’t get by that tree & you can’t move the track so the answer is obvious, that tree has got to go!!
But he ca build another track. Maybe short section of bypass-track. So no need to cut that tree and no need to move that sectin of track too...
@@laurilaaser2236don’t be a simp. It’s easier to just cut the tree. And cutting one tree can’t hurt the environment that much
@@UK_parliament_English for arguments sake i would say whichever was there first remains. If the tree grew around the track it should have been copsed earlier. If the track was laid to near the tree it should be repositioned. It is a simple question of priorities and nothing more.
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Now there's some serious interurban trial and error! I love how that car looks and I'm sure you will get it running and looking even better. You have a fantastic railroad and great equipment to run on it. Keep it up!
Thank you!
Love that boxmotor...very good looking...looks like the Cadillac on the rails there.
It is, rides like a Cadillac too!
Wow, just stumbled on this video completely at random. Thank you for taking us along - a fascinating process to get this boxmotor back on the rails and it was beautiful to see and hear it running!
Love this railroad! Its fantastic to see that you have the inspiration and interest to keep this going. The original group is smiling down upon you! Love the CA&E inspired shed by the way!
Thank you very much, I hope they too are enjoying watching the improvements shape up!
I'd be hesitant to put in a different motor driver - that old traction controller is absolutely fantastic!
It will be keeping the same controller, just interfaced to something a little more modern.
Well, I would move the track around the tree, making a bigger radius. Then I would renovate the car in green with gold pinstripes. Fit some bench seats, then advertise for support by offering trips around the woodland, ext ext. People love things like that, you could pick a nice spot to have Tea/Coffee with snacks? Go for it, I believe you will do well.
It does spark a lot, might wanna check on that so it doesn’t start a fire
No worries, no fires were started.
@@CNW4145 yeah, but the potential is there as it depends on how dry the surroundings are
This guy has clearly been running this rail road for a long time, over 10 years at least. Im sure he knows what he is doing
@@Leeham03 there was clear sparks, something that should be fixed if he doesn’t want brush fires
Clearly you don’t know whats going on
Wow! I'm so impressed with your set-up! Your very own railroad! You are very blessed.
Wow) Fantastic! Thank you for letting us look over your shoulder and go for a ride)
I've dug out a couple of broken sleepers in a yard from underneath a derailed wagon that got an earth fault . It's awkward but we got it done , moved a Timber over and re chaired it . Appreciate the work to get dug out and gauged . 👍
Oh, what a lovely old car! How I would love to ride it.😊
This boxmotor looks like it came from a fairy tale or a Hayao Miyazaki movie.😁👍
Maybe a studio ghibli as well
The boxmotor car is a beauty, and also the track, your place is very Nice to look at😊
I love the sound of mechanical parts running on tracks
very cool train, good luck in prettying it all up, it deserves to shine again.
great video, good to see a kid with his full size train set, all the other kids are jealous!!
She looks quite happy to be alive again 😊
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood
For the the ones who love rail in general, Im sure things like this have been in our imagination .... suddenly a YT channel got it for real. Nice set up, really love it !!!!!!!!!.
Great Video, It is so nice to see someone with such a passion for for keeping history running well. If I were you I would take out the tree.
You really did a great job. I love your electric railway. Regards from France
Dude; You have something SO special here.
I'm impressed ... by the amount of work and by realizing this motorcar is 3 years older than me...
so great too see the cars out on the line again great video too bad about the tree make ties out of it and it will continue help line
That was so cool I really like what you did it's amazing you got it to work too bad that stupid tree was in the way so I look forward to seeing when you get rid of the tree and complete the circuit good luck nice job.
True interurban railroading, just in 1/2 size....good luck removing the tree!
Just like the interurban days. Very nice.
I'm exceedingly jealous. That is all I can say.
Awesome! I particularly liked the sparks at the rail. 😊
I would have a blast doing Maintenance on and around the Tracks , trimming trees . if I was your neighbor ! Very Nice.
This is really awesome! I would love to have that on my farm.
Just found this and your channel, what a fantastic and unique miniature railroad, I look forward to checking out more of your content.
Welcome aboard, thanks for watching!
Outstanding video. Really love the looks of this car. Thanks for the ride along 👍
Its good to have it out running again, looking forward to making some upgrades on it.
yay been watching these videos for years
glad to see it still exists!
Thank you for your continued support!
@@CNW4145 yw Wish I could visit
@@CNW4145Just stumbled onto your videos. Grew up with this in my front yard. Got to ride on a couple of the cars back in the 70’s. Fun to watch it evolve over the years.
I very much appreciate that your family has allowed this to continue to exist! Please come enjoy a ride anytime :)
Looks like you have several cars. Love to see the renewal of system.😊
More to come!
Awesome video! I can’t wait to see the rest of the fleet make their comeback!
In due time, all will be returned to service :)
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I wish I had a back yard like that love to have a railway like your's
Found this video a while back but just got round to watching it. Never heard of the RRVT Railway before but color me interested! I do love little private lines, narrow gauge and, well, I'm not sure I can call the boxmotor here a trolley per say, but it's very reminiscent of one to me. Looking forward to seeing more.
Such a beautiful little thing, along with the place, it looks like a dream there!
It really is, a very good place to relax in peace as well :)
This looks like a really fun project! Can't wait to see more!
Another fantastic episode! Thanks so much!
Very good miniature railway! Almost looks like a real train up close
Thank you!
What a great entertaining & fun instructive video. This is the first video of yours that I have seen. I enjoyed it so much that I have given it a like & I have also subscribed. Thank you again.
Welcome aboard, thank you!
That is really cool! Man, i wish i could build a little railway around here for firewood logging. Very cool
Great to see the boxmotor is alive !
Wow that takes me back thank you very much it’s incredible❤️
What a great set up, lots of work ahead of you. Ime in Bendigo in Australia and we have a working tram museum still operating on the roads of Bendigo, one of very few in AUS. Well done, best of luck with it.
Very cool!
Excellent. Thanks for sharing this
Even the headlight still works!
Это же сколько сил надо и желания чтобы содержать всю эту инфраструктуру в порядке и восстанавливать её.
Тут ничего сложного, когда в радость!
20 mins of pulsating entertainment.
I'd love to see closer look on the truck / bogie.
Not sure how I got here but this is AWESOME! What a wild train setup would love to spend some time out there.
Welcome aboard!
Same don’t know how I got here at all to but glad it found me
I'd hate cutting that lovely tree down too. It'll be a shame to lose it but, as others said, you've got very few options
Man someday I hope to have a ton of land with a little electric line like this
First video I've seen onf your channel. That's a really cool little railroad you've got.
Welcome aboard!
did you build your own railway. holy cow, u are my hero
Herrliches Fahrzeug ! Und nach 10 Jahren Herumstehen sogar noch gängig, da würde ich an den Vorwiderständen
am Motor nichts ändern. Nur sowas übersteht so lange Stehzeiten mit Mäusen und Eichhörnchen.
Dazu würde ich auch das Original nicht zerstören wollen, was mit Transistorsteuerung der Fall wäre.
Metallteile, Kabel und den Wagenkasten überarbeiten, sowie eventuell neue Verglasung (so welches drin war)
das wird schon ein schönes Stück Arbeit. Und das Ergebnis ist sicher eine Augenfreude.
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. 👍
Uuuuuh sparks and dry leafs makes me nervous u know 🔥 😂
Love this car! What a lovely piece of work!
It really is, and it rides so nice too. Looking forward to having it out more often now.
You don’t have a shortage of trees that’s for sure. Turn it into ties. 😁
Hahahaha!
Thank you for sharing. McCulloch, Stihl, Husqvarna, Poulan, Homelite, or Pioneer are all good tree solutions. I hate to cut em down but…
Hahaha I have one of those solutions all sharpened up and ready to go :)
wow its amazing you got it to run againafter such a long time
Your system is crazy, this is too cool
Thanks!
Wow how many people own a narrow gauge railway on their land! 😂
🤣 paint the numbers...5309 under the current car number! 🤣
Awesome video Brother. I wish I was financially and physically able to help with your joy, I mean toys! 🤣🤣🤣
Can I come over and play? 🤣👍✌️
You're blessed with this. I know it's a lot of work, but it ain't work if it's fun. Good luck and God bless. 🙏🙌🌞👍✌️
Hahaha I never noticed that and now I can't unsee it.. good observation 🤪
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Concrete ties in the shed ? Beautiful boxmotor !
Narrow gauge railways in the UK often use plastic recycled sleepers especially for replacement in situ. Lasts forever, and termite proof I assume as we don't have such pests.
We have plenty of pesky termites, but they dont bother the treated ties until the treatment is gone. I've looked at using plastic ties several times, but they are so expensive. You would think that someone would be happy to get rid of melted milk jugs and bottles but they charge nearly $20 per tie. I get my wood from lumberyards that have rejected stock, like its too warped or has breaks in it so its much cheaper to buy. I can get a wood tie for about $2-$3 and they last at least 25 years so the cost of plastic just doesnt make sense unfortunately.
I was thinking that was an especially quiet motor, as it came out of the barn. THEN, I realized you were the propulsion for the car! Silly me!
Hahahahaha yes if you could have heard me groaning as I tried to move that thing it would have been a little more evident where the power was coming from lol
you should try concrete sleepers like the UK railroads use, the termites will be disappointed though.
Congratulations on you great job!
i really badly want this and turn it into a home on tracks it is small but not too small it is long and it is cute and i love it
That box motor is a real beauty! I'm surprised that anything can roll past that tree on the curve. Since the car barn has been home base for the locos for so long and probably forever from now on, has a concrete floor with the rails set into it ever been considered?
For the cost of concrete I'm going to continue with the rock floor, its just a little too much to justify.
This is awesome but I now have mixed feelings, my train-garden seems lame dammit I want some thing this fun in my backyard.
a lifesize electric train, that is the coolest thing ever
Just: wow. I am with you in hating to cut in trees for no reason. But I think you have a good reason here.
Nice
You must have a nice Easter.
Cheers
That's an ash tree so I wouldn't be too unhappy about losing it cause its eventually going to get emerald ash borer and die so....
A electric motor controller that uses a series of resistors with contacts that allow bypassing with a rotary throttle lever, is called a Rheostat.
A really big one lol
You might have a look at the motors they seem to be sparking
TREE HAS TO GO - no question 😂 🪓🪚
The tree is beautiful, maybe the track van be adjusted
I'd be a little concerned about the dry leaves catching afire, watching sparks coming from the wheels.
That has never happened, only when I'm welding on the track lol
like this great estoration video.
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Vinegar and water to wet the ground with first and the powder to help dry out on top outside barriers to lock in the bugs with. It dries out from the inside out of their shells. Blocking out the oxygen and blood flow.
Better take a ride with your leaf blower blowing the dry leaves from near the rails. Dry leaves combined with sparking wheels can lead to an awkward outcome.