But, you can be get lost forever, coz those railroads have no maintenance from decades, the bridges could collapse & can injured them brutally. This is very very risky
The world salutes in amazement those hard men of steel who had laid those Railroad Tracks and built those Timeless Tunnels and Railroad Bridges in these rugged and torturous terrain cutting through endlessly awesome and breathtakingly beautiful landscape !!
That's the E&N Railway's [mile 14, Victoria Sub] Niagara Canyon Bridge they're rolling over at the beginning[ 260 ft high.] Arbutus Canyon [mile 14.9 ] is the other bridge [225 ft high]
Years ago (early 1980's) I built a gas powered railcar that I ran on the Tacoma to Elbe railway. I was building a log home south of Graham at the time. Lots of fun running along the east side of lake kapowsin and further south. I remember there was this old tracked crain halfway tipped over on the south end of the lake. Wonder if it's still there
This is on Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway subsidiary on BC's Vancouver Island. It is currently out of service. (All RR's are historic!)
Looking like some ghost movie... dangerous bridge....dark tunnel....no one around u....broken railings....camera just near the track.....sound/friction of wheels with rail..... Looking as some unknown third force is all behind this journey through the jungle.👍👍
I used to do this with my dad in his rail car. Probably the reason for not telling where they are is that it is illegal activity. No railroad owner is going to give a private rail car owner permission to use their abandon tracks. Too many safety issues, wash outs, tree falls, etc. It was great fun but very unsafe at times. There are clubs you can join that run these rails with permission and a hefty insurance policy.
What beautiful scenery and a great run too. You're braver than me for there's no way I'd stop in the middle of one of those bridges as I'm a prisoner to vertigo. I see the A holes of society have visited the tunnel and sprayed their tags on it. I can see only one thing wrong with this video and that's that it's not long enough for I was wanting to see so much more. Cheers from Australia.
this was fun thanks for the ride! just subd but i have to say i use to love heights even rappelled in the Army from helicopter's! i don't know how but many years later i became acrophobic for no good reason! It sucks because i loved rappelling! I'll be 57 this year and feel like a wussy watching you over the trestle!
You guys are lucky, to have such wonderful good tracks. The abandoned tracks I've ever seen are deteriorated and overgrown beyond hope. I was kinda excited when the old cotton belt railway here in Dallas was abandoned, but then, they tore up all the tracks. I built a rail bike for nothing.
Alot of the abandoned lines in the pnw once serviced sawmills and logging operations that either no longer exist or have become serviced by the trucking industry
@@gerrycoleman7290 This is on the E&n railway, (now basically abandoned) near Victoria BC, the trestle is near Goldstream Provincial Park, also near Hwy 19
Thanks for sharing your adventures! I'm so jealous. I was actually hiking this very line about a year ago. FYI, it is an active line further up, as the ICF is still moving freight for its customers.
I'd bet that track is not abandoned. Dis-used or out of service, maybe, but probably not abandoned. The reason rail riding / biking is not very popular in Canada is because generally there is no where to legally do it. In Canada, if the rails are still in place, you would likely be trespassing on railway property (a much more serious offense than a misdemeanor, as in the USA). In Canada, abandoned rails are typically pulled up as soon as they are abandoned. Then the land ownership is transferred to the federal or local government or adjacent property owners. I know of a few possibly abandoned tracks that may exist in southern Ontario and Quebec, maybe. There was an unused CN track that went from Pukatawagan to Lynn Lake in Manitoba that hadn't seen a train since 2002, but I believe some local First Nations now own the property / track, if it is still there. It was still intact last time I was there, in 2010. One adventurous person / nutjob I heard about rode a quad down those tracks in the dead of winter. It took three days and many trees had to be chopped from the tracks. At least (most of) the black bears would have been sleeping. Finding intact abandoned track in the west is less likely than finding bigfoot bones.
There are a few old logging railroad lines in WA and OR that look very similar, though. And some of those are actually legally abandoned, so possibly not illegal to ride on them? I know a few abandoned tracks in MT, ID, and WA, but I'm not sure if it is legal to be on those tracks. In Canada, unless the rails have been removed and officially converted to a public trail, that is a hard NO.
Hey, where is this? At first I thought it was the E&N with Little Niagra, Hole In The Wall, Saanich inlet and Mt Finlayson but now I'm not sure. Sure looks like fun though!
Not sure if I was more mesmerized by that gorgeous granite tunnel or the 400 foot high tressel. Either way, great video, thank for sharing! Any plans to come down to Hopland and ride along the Eel river in CA?!?! Lots of dead line there to explore! Message me because I'd love to come along!
What are those extra rails about on the trestle bridges? I would guess they are there to either strengthen the bridge or actually keep the train on the track in the event of a derailment. It is confusing as you sometimes see this on lines where mixed gauge rolling stock is deployed.
This is really cool, it would be neat if you could show some video of your Speeder, maybe you could put up a video and tell us a little about it, I would also like to know what State your speeder is going through, it looks like northern California, Montana, or Colorado, and what RR Line it use to be, maybe UPRR, GNRR, or DRGRR. My father was a Engineer for DRGRR UPPRR my brother retired UPRR, & he was all over the mountains in California, my Father was in Colorado.
A fair question. The excessive engine noise would really detract from an otherwise peaceful ride. Somebody should look into adapting a Prius powertrain for use on one of these.
@@johntechwriter Prius powertrains make over 100 hp on electricity alone... there's no way you could put that much power down to the rails on a cart this light. Something smaller could be epic though - maybe adapt some hub motors to run on the rails?
Beautiful scenery, what was shown of it. Neat little cart. Just my opinion, don't go fast over the bridges....someone may of put a jack rod to throw the cart off the track.....not a pleasant ending. Hope to see more videos in the future. And if you do, please show more of the scenery and do a little narrating of the locations and so forth. Hello and happy trails from Rick H of Malta, Texas.
I would like to see you take a 5 or 10 day camping trip in a place like that and build a trailer for the back of that and on the roof of it put some solar panel power on it some batteries inside with a DC refrigerator freezer pack you some stuff for camping and make a video of that that would be a cool way to go camping
Question, do you ever run into other rail kart enthusiasts? If so, is there a procedure for passing each other? Is it just helping each other lift a cart off and on the track? :)
It's Canada. So there is the customary 5-10 minutes of exchanging of apologies back and forth. Followed by 20 mins of complimenting the other persons cart and belittling your own as a courtesy. 11 mins chatting about the weather. Then next is 7-13 minutes of exchanging insistence on helping each other lift their carts off the rails and past the other. Then the obligatory expression of hope to see again, possible chance run-in at Tim Horton's at some point or even an invite over for a craft beer and some Queen Elizabeth cake. Should be no more than an hour and a half or so to make the pass....roughly.... And that's on the fast-paced West Coast........if it was the East Coast...........................
A tip for better videos. Hold the camera rock steady and let the subject do the moving. Don't zoom in and out while filming. Use zoom to "compose" the shot, then film it It make a good video even better. Just trying to help.
Many viewers want to know: where is this, please? I assume it's a working railroad that you found your way on to in its off hours - the track seems pretty well maintained; it doesn't seem to be abandoned. We'd really like to know more. Thanks in advance!
This video could be made better two ways. Show the entire speeder. So others who also would like to build one can get good ideas from your build. And also the area or location this was shot. It is beautiful country.
Wow, wouldn’t this be fun! We live in Qualicum right along the rail way tracks. My hubby has been wanting to try this before he builds one. Do you still go out on the rails?
Is that Goldstream River bridge? Looks very similar. I rappelled off of it once. If you think riding on it is scary, try going ~100 m down the valley vertically.
