It's your wheels!!! Rubber grips too much and walks off. Metal wheels allows to slip

I'm 80 years old and have wanted to take an adventure like this forever. I had to smile during the entire journey.

Build a trailer. Put it on the back so you will have sleeping quarters and a place to mount solar panels to recharge it.

Buy train wheels

"The batteries fully charged! We could potentially go a hundred miles." "We've got one hour of daylight left." LMAO I love the enthusiasm. Cool contraption.

Matt has definitely beaten life already and is just doing the side quests now

All the puppies worked really well together on that puppy.

It’s so funny I know so many people who just won’t do anything. They’ve never tried before and here you are in one video doing like 90 things for the first time ever and excelling at them. People really need to open and broaden their horizons.

This was a fantastic idea Here are some engineering suggestions You needed to attach a drill with eccentric weight to vibrate the wheel mold as you poured. Other than a Lexan disk with a kitchen vacuum bag attachment these are the most accessible ways to get the bubbles out of your polyurethane pour. Bolt thick oversized disks on the back of your wheels to keep the wheels on the track. You need a power conversion system and chain drive to your train wheels with a jack system to put down and pull up the original wheels & tires, but they are great for just moving the car around. You struggle too much and need a pair of stakes at the back and go in the ground so you can pitch it over more easily. A fold-up cow catcher to knock things off the track as you go would help. Oh, and you need a puppy...

When I was young I had a 1967 Plymouth and when I let some air out of the tires they would conform to the shape of the top of the rails. The width of the car was exactly the width of the rails. It was so fun we'd all get on top of the car. I only had to touch the steering wheel over road crossings.

When I was a little kid my parents took a 1939 Ford Deluxe to the railroad tracks behind our house the Ford matched exactly so all you had to do is slightly let some air out of the tires and drive all the way into town and back having an sparkplug airpump to pump the tires backup it made a fun ride!!! 🤠👍

You’re my favourite motorcycle/ fun vehicle stuff channel, you’re doing great stuff on this channel

i wonder how many times he said "puppy"?

The biggest thing people forget is that the wheels on a train aren’t actually connected to the train. The train sits on them and the weight of the cars keeps them in place along with the flange on the wheel.

2:34 galvanized square steel

Absolutely sensational! I'm in Britain and in the late 60s, a lot of our railway infrastructure was closed and dismantled. Why not make them all available to the public so they can build their own vehicles? (well, saying that, it occurred to me that once health & safety get involved, that won't leave much freedom for hobbyists to experiment.. rules! Why?)

What I would do is get another one of those vehicles and put it back to back and get some better wheels for the job. Then you would have the ability to drive the vehicle in one direction and then just get into the other end to go the other direction. Get some good lights and in between both vehicles you would have a box to put your gear in so you could go on a few-day journey and you could have all of your food and other things to be comfortable. This looks cool and fun. We need to see a video where you go on a longer trip.

not making fun of him but most used word in this video is “puppy”

The cone shape of train wheels is mandatory. The lip will just grind away really quick in corners. The smooth non grip cone shape is what keeps the train from staying on the tracks instead of going straight when it should be making a turn. As seen around 26:00 the cast rubber has enough grip to lift the vehicle up and over the track from friction against the ridge which is why it was derailing. That is also what your buddy is experiencing at 34:00 But like you said, you really need all metal wheels. You might be able to put like a rubber ring around them for a smoother ride but they are going to wear away really quick. If its all metal you might also be able to set off railway crossings that are still active :)

The gaps would probably be lot smoother with bigger wheels.

Your buddy missed an opportunity to say the steering is vague, but it still handles like its on rails!

Some suggestions - you can buy small steel rail wheels for factory trucks, they are the correct profile. You need some simple suspension with only 1-2" travel and where people make stuff like this they put all the weight on one side (like a motorcycle and sidecar) and put the rubber driving wheel on that side. It needs to be easy to reverse, go both ways or turn round or you have a long way back!

7:55 I love what he says regarding his feeling smugly happy when re-using recycled/leftover bolts --- I always experience the same self-satisfied glow whenever I am able to use already-on-hand fasteners instead of buying costly new ones at the hardware store, in that it kind of vindicates my hoarder instincts. :D

The reason train wheels are tapered is because they have a solid axle and the taper changes the speed of each wheel when going around corners.

One of my favorite genres of video is people building rail carts, and I'm constantly amazed how common it is for people, even those sufficiently mechanically savvy and interested by rail to even attempt such a thing, to not really understand just how important the exact shape of rail wheels is to their performance and operation. Everyone seems to have to learn that one the hard way.

getting some good engagement on this one! you don't need me to tell you, but be thankful for the idiots that are just here to hate, and take the ACTUAL criticism into mind. all these comments helped get this vid into my recommended, this was a fun watch! looks fun as hell, keep doing cool shit!!

Easier solution; attach a wooden disk next to the big motorized wheels. Then the tyres become train wheels. Works great and is way more simple.

Next add front debris removal blade, don't forget train air horn.

You know why train wheels are angled? It’s so they can self correct. Having a flange would also greatly benefit you.

Anybody else realize how much he says puppies??😂

When you're mixing things like eurethane, you should double mix it, meaning mix it in the container but then pour it into something else and mix again. The number one cause of a bad cast is unmixed residue clinging to the walls of the container

“These puppies”😂

You should put a small solar power bank or gas generator on it for charging and over night trips/camping. Great Job btw

You should add a cow catcher to the front. Would look cool. Plus it will protect the wheels from stuff on the track

Never seen this channel but this guys positivity and just attitude is amazing and infectious.

Fun fact, make a fullt welded "absolutely square" sub-chassis, that simply bolts onto the upper fibreglass superstructure. Forget about "having the ground down with angle grinder and belt grinder wheels and MAKE THEM AGAIN knowingthat yur friend has a lathe, do them ALL at the same time, with at least a 3/4 inch HEIGHT flange, slightly bevelled by about 3 - 5 degrees. The treads do NOT have to be as sloped as you had them before, allowing a deeper tread to top of flange distance, as (even though the theoru=y of a cambered wheel, keeps a train on the tracks) actual on-track rail conditions are that often there is a variance between true can and twists that allows the cant to vary enough, to throw you, if the only thing you are relying on, is the dual cambers of both wheels, which if not ABSOLUTELY PARRALEL with the back axle, the front won't stay on the track & visa versa with the rear wheels, especially in reverse. So, weld BOTH axle blocks to a subchassis of steel, bolt THAT to the fibreglass upper superstructure, and NEVER hava tracking problem, ever again. BUT YOU MUST HAVE PROPER FLANGES, as they are "not" there for good looks, they have a specific job, and THAT is to keep the rail wheels "at gauge", which they cannot do if the flange faces are uneven, out of round, or not identically parrallel between both axles, I mean both axles must be absolutely parrallel to each other. Rely on the weight of the drven rubber wheels, to ONLY drop down onto the rail to "drive", as they are NOT THERE NOW, for suspension of the car (which only works on a bumpy gravel road). THE CART absolutely must be running on all 4 rail wheels, not the fronts and rubber drivers The drivers will be held to the rail by suspension pressure only, and should my I say, have a retraction system, whereby you can raise them slightly, whenever you wish to hand push thecart (without the rubber wheels causing drag). Have fun after that, knowing that the FLANGES also have another expremely important job, that if they are NOT "just inside gauge" but not deep enough either, you will NOT get past the turnout frogs of any switches.. The flanges work on BOTH faces, to travel between the running rail and the check rails - holding the wheels to whichever way the turnouts are set, such that the gap at the frogs cannot derail you.

Awesome ride. The wheels need strong metal flanges for a reason, there's a heck of a lot of strain on them trying to keep it all straight.

Your wheels need to be pitched to 72 degrees. The wheels not only act to center but as differentials during curves

I don't think I've ever seen a more negative comment section holy shit. You guys did great and the fact you even got it working is fantastic! It looks fun, it's nice and compact, and it works, that's exactly what you set out to do, don't let these comments discourage you from making more crazy stuff! I love your sense of humor and your excitement and of course it's not like you're a crazy engineer so it's okay to make mistakes. The people in the comments may help but I definitely think some of them are some straight up assholes. Love it, keep up the work!

Resilience is the sign of a good engineer. You weren't going to let little things get you down.

I dont understand why you thought wheels without lips would make it, come on

This is super fun, from an engineering point of view i want to point out everything wrong, but also just enjoy how bad engineering still basically gets the job done😊

1:22 She's gonna give you WHAT?!

Steel wheels are a must

Use the cart rims ,cut down centers so metal edges work as a guide to keep it on track. Use motorcycle spring shocks on rear guide wheel to keep tension. Rail wheels have a lip on inside edge to keep on track. Welding a steel plate on inside of rim and using rubber wheels will work.

Thats very cool, but looks a little heavy to pick up, and go around obstacles. At least need some large caster wheels on all 4 corners on jacks that can lift it off the tracks, and roll it around. Use steel guides to keep it centered to. They wont wear out after time.

I believe if you would have used something to vibrate the plaster immediately after pouring, or used a hammer to rapidly beat on the side of the bucket, you can get most of the air bubbles to shimmy up to the top of the mixture, and leave. Next, are you making your wheels conical? If you want your car/cart to roll smoothly, especially around bends, and you want it to quite literally correct itself automatically to stay on those rails! The cone shape of the wheels will serve as a differential when turning. For when you turn, the outer wheels will travel a greater distance through the entirety of a turn than the distance traversed by the inner wheels, and because they both will spend the same amount of time turning, the outer wheels will be rotating at a greater speed than the inner wheels, and that is the purpose of a differential in vehicles, it allows the wheels on the same axle to independently travel at different speeds from each other. Differentials are some incredibly clever mechanisms, but I believe the conical wheels of a train is even more clever! The cone shape of the wheels create a range of different sized circumference, and this is how two wheels attached to the same axle that will always rotate at the same speed as the other. However, as it rotates around a turn, the wheel on the inside of the turn will follow the path of the least resistance, and it will naturally be pulled to rolling over the rail on the smaller end of that wheel, while the outer wheel will be pulled toward its bigger end, and in so doing, while both wheels are rotating at the exact same speed always, the outer wheel making contact with the rail at its thicker end translates into one rotation of the wheel traveling a farther distance than the distance that the inner wheel can travel in one rotation at its skinnier end. As for the physics behind how such shaped wheels can autocorrect the cart's direction of travel in relation to the track. However, I'll post a link to a short video that will explain it better than I can . . . that is if I can find it. Actually, take your pick: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/juCXpdyBzdrHYY0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fst0qKqIs7qogI0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/euCUeq50mJqYiX0.html

I was engrossed the whole time and your love for not only what you do but also life is abundantly apparent. Keep up the good work, you're doing great!

THERE SHOULD BE A DRINKING GAME FOR THIS VIDEO. EVERYTIME HE SAYS PUPPY .................DRINK

No idea what you where thinking going without flanges.. There is a reason why rail tracked things have them. 😅

you have room on the back for a small gas powered motor to run a third wheel in case your original battery gives out

i'm screaming "guide wheels behind the drive wheels to maintain traction when going in reverse"

Dude you're gonna wreck your back if you keep doing that. Seriously.

Props for learning to tig last night and actually producing some clean enough welds

Love the never give up and self reliance, but why are all diy youtube rail projects just: I'm going try stuff until I concede that rail design happened 200 years ago and I can just do that.

At the 16 min mark, You mention train wheels being angled or convex which keeps them straight on track. The reason is actually to do with going around corners, One wheel travels a further distance.

I don't get why there's so much hate in the comment section. I thought the video was great! Yes, real train wheels would have performed better with less work, but you altered your failed attempts into something that works! People seem to have missed the part of the video that you mentioned the wheels, and also seem to have missed the part where the vehicle isn't a 10,000 ton rail car. Really interested to see what comes next!

I love how you say "Babe just mustered up the strength of a small giant".... You call her "babe" on video. That's so sweet and cool. Also, you are SO close with the tapered wheels. That's what trains have. But you need and inner flange to prevent derailment. For this non-steel wheel design, you would need to add a steel flange to the inside. The flange can't be made of that epoxy it would break off. The flange takes rare but large forces. But awesome video. I'm subbed.

I think if I were you, I wouldn't have cast the front wheels in resin and just used the rims to keep it on the track, OR put a plate behind each of the 4 wheels that are larger in diameter so that they can be the track guides. Would be interesting to see how it would do after that.

YEAAHH GALVANIZED SQUARED STEEL !!!! 2:35

If you did decide to buy a rail wheel, I suggest buying only one and then casting a mold in silicone. Then you can make replicas in your resin material for a more pleasant experience than metal on metal AND have a easy way to replace wheels that have been damaged.

Why don't you buy some steel track wheels? $52 each at Grainger Inc.

How many puppies does it take to build a rail car??

Coolest abandoned railroad car I've ever seen on KZfaq! Awesome custom engineering / build!

Definitely should use steel flanges on the wheels. May think for the long haul and get a solar panel to help charging spare battery bank.

Why is he getting rid of the galvanized square steel

This editing is actually really good. Nice and concise, but still adding the bits and bobs that add humor and shows progress. Glad that algorithm steered me to ya!

Engineering 101: Learn Murphy's Law. You have to have a backing plate on each of the wheels. Just watching others that've made rail carts would've shone you that.

What's not to love about this guy? Just this one example @7:57 - 8:02 should be enough, I mean come... How often do you see that level of joy emanate, rise up, and burst out of someone like that? That is a benchmark moment right there, for sure. So I say: Keep shining and smiling because the world needs more of it. Thank you for sharing and salute you I do!

So, maybe you already know this, but the taper of the wheels isn't really to center the car on the rails. It's how the outside wheels are able to turn faster than the inside wheels when cornering. So, if you get that angle right, your wheels won't wear as badly from going around the curves. And steel would definitely be a better choice, but skaters be skatin'...lol

love this format and style you’re adopting on youtube, definitely think you’ll continue to bring in new people! :)

“I literally learned how to rig welding last night” dudes killing it

For some reason these little rail car videos are popping up in my stream, the big question I have for all of them... why do they all avoid doing any research to understand how trains stay on a track, they have metal with designed flanges that let them turn and stay on tracks etc

Dude! You've had that thing in the water, on the train tracks, if you make it fly next would be HILARIOUS!

You need to install a train horn in this puppy.

Every single concern and thought I had about the wheels as you were making them you acknowledged at a later point. Well thought out and executed project especially for something experimental. I can't say I've seen a lot of rail car videos but this was the best of the ones I have!

Why do you think they have flanges on the wheels. To stay on the track.

In this video: kids discover rail transit is actually really great.

One big problem is having rubber wheels instead of metal. Metal on metal has less friction and allows the wheels to slide on the rails and adjust the cart position to be centered. Ruber has the opposite effect instead of pushing the cart to the middle they pull it outwards. Your grooves managed to work but I wouldn't recommend it to others.

My only criticism is you didn't paint it like lightning McQueen

Where are all these puppies, you said it at least 50 times.😊

If you go anywhere overnight bring extra wheels

Love the show. Some great ideas. Three things I noticed. Some Bearings to reduce axle heat. Wheels need a lip on them to keep them on the track. Track is not always straight, so Front suspension needs a central mounting bearing to allow for crack turns. Looks like a lot of fun! Keep up the great work, and see you next time 💯

i lost count of "puppies"

Crazy how much hate is in this comment section. Great job, thats so cool. Love the positive attitude

we need a "puppy" counter haha!

"When this baby hits 88mph... *you're going to see some serious sh!t!* "

Great project but please please young man stop lifting like you are doing as when your older your back is going to give you some serious problems

I like this guy's channel. I hope he gets the subscribers he deserves.

this videos make me wish that italy had empty railroads...

Why not use riding lawn mower tires and rims? Install an inside flange on each rim. Smoother ride.

I have a picture of me sitting in that car from the St. Louis Motorcycle Show like 11 years ago... Never figured I'd see it on youtube going on train tracks, lol.

need to make the drive wheels wider and more rigid, you can see them trying to "fold over" under themselves when you were lifting it back onto the track, them rear wheels need to be braced better as well, the more rigid it is, the longer it will stay on the rails, proper rail wheels will solve alot of your issues with derailing, also, if you making the rail riding gear retract upwards when not being used, would be great, so when you want to turn around, find a road/rail crossing, raise the rail wheels, drive onto the road, turn around using the normal road wheels, line it back up, lower rails, off you go again, (check out ride on mowers for the idea on how to make it work, raise and lower cutting deck) will save having to bring a small squad with you just to get it turned around, and lastly, you will want the rear rail wheels to be able to turn with the corners of the train track, so a pivot point in the middle with spring holding it straight should do the job perfectly, they only need to turn like 10 degrees, maybe less than that, but ti will help when cornering on the railroad tracks, once you have done all the upgrades i have mentioned, you should be able to install a bigger motor and go much faster safer..... 👍👍

Trains have solid axles with both conical steel wheels locked to the axle because a trains wheels have to spin faster/slower to turn on a railway. Plus a railway is larger than the wheels so the train actually self centers on the track.

I waited patiently for you to figure out that you can't allow your rubber wheels to be load-baring because they won't slip to fit the metal tracks. There are many reasons why trains still use steel on steel today!

34:35 "it goes straight and it bounces". That's called "hunting". If your wheels were a proper shape, that wouldn't happen as much.

Redesign with nose windows like a helicopter so you can see your wheels or other obstructions.

do same ride at night with night vision. You'll see lots of critters. No other vehicles, too much noise

Definitely need some metal wheels. With a lip.

The wheels need to be out of metal, and they need a bigger plate at the end to stop it derailing. Good luck