Railcart on the San Diego and Eastern Railway desert section. 

A common question is about the barrels and flags. As I understand it, a humanitarian group fills the barrels with drinking water for migrants who are crossing the Mexico/US border. The border is only about 7 miles from the southern portion of the tracks. The flags, I assume, are there to make the barrels more visible.

I love that scenery. I probably wouldn't love it so much if I was stranded out there with no shade or water, but from the comfort of my air conditioned home, it looks pretty nice.

That's such a shame to see those Rails abandoned they seem to still be in good shape. It's a sad thing to see when Rails have been abandoned when they could be used for something. Those Rails could be used for Rail Excursion Train's for people to look at Scenery and as a Dinner Train anything...

I rode that route on a mountain bike in the 80's, Most of the tunnels were intact, and you could make it to the Goat Canyon trestle from either direction. There were two small hillside trestles that had burned our as well as one tunnel collapse but rideable trails circumvented these obstacles.

Awesome! I've hiked this over 3 days all the way to Ocotillo wells!🤗

Hermoso recorrido, hermosos paisajes,felicidades por tus vídeos, gretings from México 🇲🇽🤝🏼🇺🇸

Thanks for showing us those tracks. I have not been along that section since the year 2000. (Before the windmills.) In 1976 Hurricane Kathleen washed away half of the town of Ocotillo. She also washed out the trestle just north of I-8, at the west end of Evan Hewes Hwy. Nice to see that both of the trestles which you passed over before going over I-8 have been repaired.

Очень красивые пустынные пейзажи, спасибо за экскурсию.

Playing 'The City of New Orleans' while watching the video, got to love America.....

this way of traveling puts a smile on my face. In Germany that would be impossible. even on disused routes.reminds me of Terence Hill relaxing on his hammock behind the horse.

Thanks for taking us on your rail trip. As I write this we have been below freezing for a few days here in Oregon & this video is a way to appreciate the warmth to come in 6 months! We have been dropping to 22f at night & some places here on the west side of the Cascades even lower. That`s a fabulous little speeder you built!

Absolutely fabulous and entertaining ride. Sand covering the tracks in places makes it even more exciting and unpredictable. Wish they would reopen this line. Always sad to see so many disused lines and rolling stock rusting away 😢

Awesome. Used to watch trains operate daily moving gypsum and whatnot in early 70’s from Ocotillo and never thought it would be otherwise. There was a guy who modded an Edsel or something and rode on the roof from Ocotillo up. There’s something that mounts on a bike to prop off the second rail.

Now that was pretty cool! Thanks for taking us along!👍

I appreciate your guiding journey for the travelers.❤

So awesome. That’s definitely an experience of no other

This looks like so much fun, and very relaxing!

I’m here via the imposing Goat Canyon Trestle! amazing journey👌😮!!, thanks for sharing it and the extinct route between California and Arizona is now clear to me👍 Greetings from the city of Durango, DGO., MX!

I’ve never even thought about doing this.. but now my imagination is running wild!! I’m going to make something similar for my son and me to take out on old tracks and run around!! Thanks for the inspiration

This is so cool I used to work for a rail car repair place in MI. We had a small cart to test axles used to ride the old tracks that went threw Novi.

Looks like a grand adventure. Thanks for sharing.

This is a really freakin cool video and I love the motorized railcar what a great ride! 👍🤗❤️🤍💙🦅🇺🇸⚓🔧🛠️

This is strangely mesmerizing 😮 i would actually enjoy this too much ...

Cool railcart and awesome views of the trackage!

Great video. Beautiful scenery. Reminds me of the train scenes from the movie “Flashback”.

Life is like a train track... Full of possibilities and happiness! ✌️

Great video coverage of the rail cart trip on the San Diego & Arizona Eastern railroad which today is the San Diego & Imperial Valley railroad. The San Diego & Imperial Valley railroad is owned by the Genessee & Wyoming trainsportation company which own many railroads in the U.S. & a railroad in Australia. It would be great if they send a locomotive with a plow to plow the sand away where they can do so, and the 3 abandoned locomotives just sitting there taking up space & going to waste when they can be towed or pushed East to El Centro and have a teams of mechanics, electricians work on them to get them running again.

Ecuadorian railroad style in the USA! I love it, man. When my kids are grown and gone, I'm going railroading!

That was great! Thanks for the tour!

Sure looks like a lot of fun. You get to see a lot of the country most of us will never see.

Wide open spaces .... love it!

That's so cool. I grew up in San Diego County, loved the desert. I retire in six months, may have to go for a abandoned rail ride.

Born and lived here all the live long days l can never get over the fact just how beautiful San Diego county is. It is impossible to take it for granted. I will say the wind turbines kick in the megalophobia in me though! Thanks for sharing +1

30 years I walked those rails starting down in the valley (Imperial Valley) up to where they cross highway 8. The big trestle and the tunnels were the coolest. You can still ride the excursion train from Campo to the border.

First time seeing any of your videos. I found myself kind of mesmerized with the whole idea. Throughout the video I kept thinking of all the practical solutions for when you run into sand. Then I noticed some of your other videos with a different cart. It would be pretty neat to maybe get a video of you putting one of these things together. So I ended up subscribing just in case! Enjoying your other videos as well. Edit: just saw the walk around video 😳 😅 this is so cool

I want to build one of those! There are so many great abandoned rail lines on the West Coast. Some with large bridges and very scenic routes. Goat Canyon trestle is epic and its a bummer you can't ride over it anymore.

San Diego beautiful as always. Gotta love home 🌲🏜️

This was really cool, I've daydreamed of doing stuff like this as a kid.

Good lord that looks fascinating! 👏❤️

I would love to do this on a summer evening with some beers lol. So awesome!

Nice railkart, so cool & looks like a lot of fun!😂👍

Something really touching about seeing the remains of those old trains. It didn’t feel like looking at a different time, more a different dimension.

This looks like so much fun!

Man that looks like a barrel of fun, my only concern would be being able to have cell service just in case something happened. Thanks for sharing !.

In trying to analyze myself why I found this video so cool: the historical aspect, rail fan, and touring remote areas n scenery only seen from rail routes while driving a well engineered car not much bigger than an amusement park ride car= amazing adventures I’m sure. I say humbly, n I mean humbly as I wouldn’t have a clue to where to begin planning such spectacular adventures, bravo n well done fellas! Most of my questions were answered in comments, re: flags n so on, but didn’t see anyone ask what the plan is if experienced mechanical issues forcing stop. Cell service out there? Phone for help? Looks quite remote. Anyway, awesome video thank you, n happy n safe travels- cheers.

Bummer that the first tunnel is closed. Blocks off a lot of great track. Very nice video.

Observation: In '93 I bicycled across the U.S. I pulled a 2 wheeled kid trailer with provisions. Peddled. Across the rockies. Peddled. No engine. Bwahaha.

Awesome video, I'm from Alpine, and spend a lot of time in these here parts! Cheers!

Best cart and videos. Kudos. I'm loving the sounds from your cart with the rail joints. I could only imagine if it could pass switch points at a higher rate, what it would emit. Great work. Definitely a bucket list item.

Amazing scenery!

An adventure, but still rather calming footage. Satisfying in a subconscious way, I suppose. I definitely dig it. Add some kind of horn for road crossings - two long blasts, one short, and one looooong loud one that crosses the road.

That was fricking awesome!!!! I watched the entire ride.

4500 and 4501 ex (bought new)ACL. 4504 ex (bought new)SCL. I saw SCL locomotives like these (GP 40) back in the old days. Early 1980s. SCL had quite a few of these. Always a treat seeing them pool up to Cincinnati on the old L&N. Usually with U 33 B or U 36 Bs.

Very cool dude! I drive past those locomotives all the time when I go visit family in Yuma from SD.

Now that cart is cool. 👍 Nice work

Looks like ya all need a plow or a leaf blower to clear the sand spots. Love the vids keep em’ coming.

That is sooo cool. Bucket list

Killer vid brother. Reminds me of being WAY West of Phoenix AZ on my MX bike under I-10.

This looks like so much fun.

This is therapeutic for me to watch

Looks like a great day out!

Fantástico! greetings from Brazil !!!

This looks like such fun!!

This would be awsome to go do! Good way to get around quickly

Loved this trip along

I'm a tram and I approve this video! Great footage!

This looks like a ton of fun!

Man thats looks like so much fun

Dude I just discovered your channel via tiktok. My curiosity has been satiated I now know where some of those tracks lead to. I used to go to Mexicali and Calexico a lot and every time I saw those unactive tracks I always wondered where they led to

Bonitos paisajes, gracias por compartir

man.. the rail crew is really dropping the ball on this line :)

I've watched them do this in Laos on their abandoned French-built rails. Very busy thoroughfare. It's interesting what they do when they meet oncoming carts.

The thought of riding a motorized pallet down the tracks has never crossed my mind. But that looks like a blast.

A shame to see those old EMD workhorse locos abandoned in the desert, but they were probably running really rough or had reached end-of-life. Could still be scrapped for useful parts if not already. great vid!

That looks like fun!

This is such a great idea, especially in South Africa (where I live in the east along the Swaziland border) , railways arent used due to corruption and sabotage. Government employees own big trucking company's and therefore make sure that railways can't be used

Ingenious. Cool ride!!!

Excellent scenery 👌

I could watch this 24/7...

I Love your video's 😊😊

Very good your video. It conveys the beauty of the desert very well. I hope your vehicle never breaks down there or that you have already taken preventive measures. Thumb up.

Dude, that looks like too much fun.

Pretty cool! I can't help but to remember the movie "Stand By Me" where the boys are walking a RR line when they come up on a bridge that spans a river 100' up. They wonder if a train is going to come. LOL

Original and super, SUPER FUNNY. Good job, guys 😃👍🏻

Cool ride and I've seen that line from i8 love to see trains going

Awesome video my friend ❤️

We need to crowdfund you to go on tour with this. So many great lines abandoned that’d be beautiful to see footage from like this.

This guy is the coolest.

Thats badass! It would be great with those pedal karts like on the VT in Carson City!

This is awesome. I wonder whether someone could fit a trimmer onto a larger version of your car, or whether the Boy Scouts could go clear out the sand, ha! I am fascinated with this and I think I'm going to try to build one of my own; your map in this video was great and I'm trying to find resources like this in Northern California.

Jajajaja, increíble paseando x el desierto, es el ( Big boy) : Un saludo 🚂 👌🇲🇽

While the heat in the desert might be too much, these tracks should be preserved to be used as cart tracks like this guy uses them. And on the sides of the tracks a path for walking and biking that could connect to a national system network of walking, biking and rail travel by human power.

Great adventure and lots of fun. The downside is personal safety. If the cart dies due to maintenance failure you better have a backup plan. Food water and shelter and first aid kit. It appears you have a (EPIRB) is great idea.

Cool content😊 Very impressive👍

Those 3 abandoned engines are cool lookin. That centerbeam flat car was bent. Wow.

That looks really nice, hope you enjoyed your adventure! It's a shame that the line was abandoned - if this was in the UK, I'm sure someone would have created a heritage railway out of it by now. I'd love to go up there every so often if I lived closeby. Hopefully whoever uses that track now, or people like yourselves, get a shovel and clear some of the blocked pieces of line by removing the excess sand - as well as possibly getting some sort of electric mower and cutting back some of the shrubs that are also a bit in the way! I'd love to see the whole line usable, even if just for small railcarts.

Nice wheels. Looks fun.

Beaultiful!!! Good Travel! Simplesmente Fantástico essa aventura pelo deserto da Califórnia e aqui direto do sertão do Pajeú Pernambuco onde Também tem Ferrovia Abandonada!!!

I like how you cut to different views. It's more work, but adds a different perspective

That is really cool.