Those "round rocks" I've seen before when I worked at Kaiser Steel in Fontana California. Pellets of iron ore is what they are. The gondola cars would occasionally leak when the bottoms wore out.
Maybe add some kind of metal rod/bar that sticks out a feet or so. That way you can't fall down between the 2 tracks if they widen up 😅. Great machine, a bit loud, but great project nevertheless! Greetings grom Belgium
COOL VIDEO! COOL RIDE! NEED TOO FIND A SHUT DOWN OLD LONG ROUTE N TAKE A LONG CRUISE. PUT YOU A CANOPY OVER THE TOP FOR SHADE N STRAP A HUGE COOLER ON BACK N GO
We've done that here near our house in Sweden. But without engine but with bicycle drive and the tracks are not in the desert but go through a huge forest area.
At 2:25 - looks like taconite pellets. It's a pelletized form of iron ore. This form is easy to ship for further refinement elsewhere. It's cheap ballast for the tracks, if there's a mine nearby. If not, it may be that some was spilled here, and they didn't bother to load it back on the car. If you get back there, see if it's attracted to a magnet to confirm this is really what it is.
Wow! Thanks for the info. We were wondering what the hell that stuff was. The tracks did go all the way to a iron mine. Next time I'm up there I'll bring a magnet.
It's a pity that the journey ended at the 23km mark. There's actually another sixty-odd kilometres of track up to the Eagle Mountain Mine, just around the bend from where the track ended in this clip. In fact, in Google Maps if you scan about 500 metres slightly north of east of where the track ends, you will find where the continuation of the track resumes.
The title had me thinking Eagle Mountain in Utah. Regardless, this looks fun and is something I'd like to do some day, I found this line and as far as I can tell it terminates at what appears to be some mining operation (maybe 40-ish miles of track). The track seems to be severed in a few spots, but it looks like there's some lengthy runs that you could check out. Anyway, thanks for the upload. On a side note, I've wondered what kind of trouble one would be in if someone called this in.
Que hermoso viaje, no puedo creer que dejaron esas hermosas vía abandonadas, es increíble, les felicito por hacer ese gran viajes para el recuerdo, aca tambien los gobiernos han dejado muchas via abandonadas, en una pena tremenda y se han llevado todo el dinero. Saludos desde Chila Luis Felicidades por el viaje.
The tracks should still go all the way to the Eagle Mountain Mine. Periodically Los Angeles County makes noises about reopening the line to the mine to dump trash in it. They decide not to for environmental reasons, then 10 years or so later, refloat the idea. I seem to recall at least 3 attempts since the mine shut down. 😮
Need reverse of a high rail kit with go cart or lawn mower wheels and tires. Pivot the rear rubber tired drive on pillow block bearings so a chain from the rail wheel drive axle always spins the rubber tire axle. A single lever somewhere below the drivers knee centerline on a shaft to both sides could easily lower or raise bot rubber tire axles. No steering on either. New rail wheels. Wide flat areas. With a bolt on wheel flanges so if the gauge widens you dont drop in. Nothing going to stop you when a rail is past the end of a tie. Hopefully there is a pipe mounted on the deck for a 8 foot patio umbrella to be mounted after removal and reconnecting the lower tube. A battery powered hedge trimmer.
If you had not panned over to your right, I could have counted the rails to tell you how long the bridge was. From what I could see at the beginning of the bridge, it is about 14 rails long or 546 feet (approximately).
I thought the whole track is disassembled. Turns out part of the track still exists! Good to kno0w! Some day I will have enough time to make my speedster too, to have a ride there! BTW there is an abandoned railroad track going from Hemet to Temecula. It has its track cut ad bent in several places going towards Temecula, so it is absolutely safe to ride it - there will e no trains there.
Uh!!! -- Those "Weird Round Rock" (looking like gravel stuff) Is "Pelletized" Iron Ore... Rounded-shaped melts better in the smelter furnace -- prevents bunching and clogging together -- the smelter is called a "Blast Furnace".
4:40. That's not the California Aqueduct. It's the Coachella Canal that transports Colorado River water from the All American Canal northward to the Coachella Valley.
Some assholes vandalized the tracks where they were wide. Looks like they stole some spikes and spread the tracks. Watched a few guys go all the way to the end of the rail recovery area a few months earlier and that never happened. Vandals suck. This should have been bought by the government and made into a hike and bike trail with pedal / electric bikes that ride the rails.
Yah. Not sure how the tracks got that way. It was for about 15ft if track before it returned to normal width. My buddy jumped and ran it out. I went sliding on my butt down the middle. I was sore, but good times though. 🤙🏻
The cart was made by myself. I just bought a welder and winged it. My first run had fixed wheels. I later changed to a spring loaded backing plates on the wheels using car valve springs.
If you want to avoid wider track sections make one side of your cart with a spring loaded telescopic extender attached to the wheels so it can get wider or smaller at any point
I believe it was for an open quarry mine for iron ore. The mine closed down years ago. Eagle Mountain mine. It is a modern day ghost town now. Kinda cool. Google it.
From what I can tell- they used rubberized caster wheel, but they added the round steel plate on bolts. Pretty good idea, I should adopt that for my speedster wheeels, but perhaps with bigger diameter available.
@@digimaks That is correct. Just some rubberized caster wheels with spring loaded plates on the back to compensate with changing track width. These tracks are pretty old.
More like a new railroad called (Eagle Mountain Scenic Railroad) that has really all Southern Pacific Locomotives ➕ SP 4-8-4 #4449 SP 4-8-4 #4460 & all the rest Southern Pacific diesel locomotives
You guys totally effed this up. No background as to what that building was, no shots of what you were riding, what its original purpose was, etc.. Epic fail.
