Homemade Rail Cart / Extreme Rail Rider 

Sweet. I love the 8 wheel design with the 4 guiding wheels underneath. Must be a really smooth ride.

😎🆒Cool & light weight rig. Great scenery. Thanks for uploading. Be safe.

I just can't begin to describe how much win this is!

That is simple as it gets! I like it! Keep it light! I would add a seat though.

For a young fella or girl , that’s neat and simple. But for me and MaMa I’d have to make it big enuf for two, with a seat and tool box to carry “ stuff” etc. a saw for limbs etc, who knows, here in S Tx I don’t know if abandoned track...... but I can look 😃. Good use of resources to have some fun and see what you can make 👍👍

It is a belt drive and I made the drive wheel out of a solid nylon plastic cylinder drilled out the center and pressed a bearing in each end, Then I used a handheld grinder to carefully grind the belt groove into it so the belt was flush with the wheel so that the back of the belt actually rides on the rail giving me more traction.

Great idea using longboard wheels. Who cares you burned out the bearings. You tried and won. Ingenious idea with the wheels, the ride is so quiet, unlike steel wheels. Keep on inventing!

Love it cant wait to see more improvements on it!

I like your design idea with the skateboard wheels and a simple, reliable belt drive. You are lucky to find abandoned tracks. All the railroads around where I used to live, when they went out of business, they tore up all the tracks. I knew some tracks in Pennsylvania, but they were miles in the backwoods and too deteriorated and overgrown, to ever ride on. I can only dream about the beautiful, scenic, good condition miles of track, some people have

I thought about a similar design. Using those kinds of wheels. Didn't figure out the drive but I think you're on to something. You gotta make it safer so you don't get hurt. That railbed is unforgiving.

When i was a kid i used to dream about this type of rail cart. I thought of roaming the whole world with this cart. 😆

What a little beauty!

This is pretty cool. I came looking for something like this 'cause there are some disused rail lines near me, but apparently the actual tracks have all been pulled up :(

That's so cool! Wish I had one of those!

I really loved this man. Way to go!

Bravo! An effective and novel means of transportation. Well done.

Really great design, great work, I love it. Just need a tractor seat bolted on.

Nice and simple, God bless you and your family Aloha

Good Job Sir! Looks like fun.

Awesome. Building one now and was glad to find your video! Ryan in Oregon

Great little machine. Trust that you don’t meet the 2.35 coming the other way:-)

i love how simple it is, easy to put down onto the track and vice versa.

Stationary rail flanges never occurred to me. Very good!

This is really Fun! reminds me of the stuff i used to build in my youth.

Well, it's a start. At least you got the project off the ground. My idea (pipe dream) is to build a lightweight frame out of aluminum uni-strut, electric motor powered by a solar panel doubling as a roof, with a couple of batteries for storage. Also, mount a disc brake to one of the axles, purchased through a bicycle shop. Many modern bicycles have disc brakes now, so just one of those would suffice. Would love to get moving on this project. I live in southern Ontario.

Great job love it 👍👍 No “fancy brake” I suppose😁😀 I can see my self going to Walmart in it!

I really envy you guys having these lines to run on. Here in the UK as soon as the last train left the scrapmen were tearing up the track . So now there’s nothing left.😢😢

Don't forget to take you a couple extra rubber bands with you... very simple and very efficient ... nice...

Fine experiment. Bravo!

This is amazing

Glad to see you had a helmet on -- Good boy.

I like how the belt rides inside the wheel, very clever

Awesome wheel idea.

isn't it weird how now people think "wow this is genius" though its so simple? its like we have come to live in such complex environments that simple things seem out of this world

I like it! This design seems to solve the problem "where do I get the wheels from??".

this is awesome cant wait to make one

thats nice my brother keep up

That's really cool. Seriously. !!!!!!!

very nice and clever design.

like your drive wheel

No brakes, no problem!

Reminds me of Surfing the Tracks the way he was riding. I considered getting some used wheels for roller coasters, but hard to come by for riding the rails.

shot from the cart was actually kinda scary, NICE !!

Extreme talented ❤️

i think id add a plastic lawn chair at least,,for a seat. And larger wheels, geared down, and double seat for a friend, and some cargo area for snacks and extra gas. but great start,,,thanks for posting

Thanks now I am looking for some metal wheels because the long board wheels were wearing out quickly.

Nice design. I'd recommend substituting the rubber wheels for metal though. Not as quiet but you won't lose anywhere near as much energy to friction that you do with rubber. Will last way longer too. :)

That thing flies!

awesome sweet simple design, but you can't go thru switches' or railroad crossings. just saying. i allways wanted to make one of them.. have a good time. put a seat on it. and an egg crate for water jug tools, gun, beer.

muy bueno e ingenioso !

This is soooop cool!

I see that you put skate wheels, but what about the specific wheel coupled to the chain?

Message for Arthur Baldwin(2 months ago) Might I suggest the long disused but still extant line between March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire?Network Rail might not be too "chuffed" though!

*WAY COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !!!!!*

Awesome!

Any other engineers out there now thinking "hum...wonder what the max speed those tracks could handle" is :) Personally I'd start off with something like a go cart and then put in some hydraulic / pneumatic cylinders that give me the option of riding rails or running away on dirt.

Good job

You can do anything with a dirtbike helmet on! Add a dirtbike seat and a twist throttle!!

Make a similar board on the right side and attach some milk crates to it for your cargo.. lol. Then put a pedastal seat like from a jon boat on it. They sell those at walmart. You might even be able to get two on there.

this is awesome. thank you. have you ever made one that just goes on one side of the tracks?

I'd run metal wheels and axle -- that way it'd trip the block signals, if present, for safety. Other than this, I'm liking the simplicity and quietness when unpowered.

So cool

Those under carriage guide wheels, might be an issue at road crossings, and rail switches? I think they will get torn off?

brillant!

Two things 1. thats awesome 2. is that abandon tracks

The power belt appears to rub on the rail. Please explain how it works. Great ride I bet!

Does it have a brake? An I think the belt won't last logger, because it gets friction to the railway and the pulley itself.

This is so cooool

excellent and simple. Do you have plans?

Sooooo COOOOL 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

without working brakes it looks very dangerous. But the idea is great

Stunning and simple! Those 2 metal shafts or axes are a supporting metal structure for electrical metal tubing?

You make it look easy lmao

Cool!

You could always buy the same size bearings just in industrial strength from an equipment manufacturer

Will you be able to make it like a car with passages seatings?

man thats soooo dope can u upgrade the bearings at all

Get some more wood planks and get a comfortable chair and also a throttle control and you'll be styling

Just out of curiosity, what do you do if a 150 ton beast comes choo chooing around a bend? Can you get out of the way in time?

impressive

Neat!

Great simple design! Me and my buddy want to build one of these. But we dont have abonded rails, what kind of laws are there if we get caught on the live tracks??

Sweet!

This is really cool. What material did you use for the cross pieces? Also did you notice them bending at all with you on board?

All you need now is a seat , a throttle , and a brake and maybe some sort of canopy and away you go.

great job making it light weight! pretty level ground. what kind of brakes would you put on it?

SO COOL! Think you could make something like the Rail Zeppelin from the 1930's? Maybe a using couple of leaf blowers would work. Patent 3007421 .

now to make a really cool video would be to hoock a long rope on a passing train and let it tow a trail bike but five times the speed is it too much to handle , speed wobble, could it be designed for it , maybe rubber in rope for easy start , risk of stepping into rope loop , helmet , armour , ejection seat, parachute , airbags for falling to side, paddings or air filled , even a safety cage or shell, but detachable from bike. how about a giant ball rolling o the tracks , pulled by train. ball of branches or plastic or rods pipes. and guy inside. or like could use an old car pulled behind w normal wheels on side of trracks or no rubber and iron wheels on track , but rubber coating inside them. or rope and parachute fly benind train. any of those ideas can be very dangerous but some might be rather safe maybe if well designed and done. some choose some danger risk for fun, its popular on youtube like skydiving . 6y

You should put a v twin tractor motor in it

I need to make one lol

Highly commendable - minimal resources with original thinking to conquer another society "No-No".

How about upgrading to a 250cc motorcycle engine.. maybe 80-90 mph.. might want some larger wheels for that..

A look into the future.

You have a track to do that but we don't

This is the real way 👍

How does it turn? And what happens when you get caught

what is the name of the white role for the drive?

Nice. What did you use for the inside wheels - the horizontal ones?

How wide did u make it ?

cool!!