Just imagine walking through the woods and you see this train🤣🤣🤦

I think what's so fascinating about trains on old overgrown railroads, is that this giant piece of machinery, this artificial object, floats through the untouched nature and all while at the same time leaving hardly any damage to nature behind.

Fantastic video! Hard to believe there are actually tracks underneath all that vegetation.

love this video its great its like off roading with a train

Sounds like the loco has turn signals lol!

It sucks this is the only angle we get to see. It would be fun to watch the wheels running over branches and weeds to see them cutting them in half.

Hey everybody, thanks for all the fun comments. I added the date for all three parts, Sunday night June 17, 2012. Glad you are enjoying the videos. I'll try to find scanner frequencies for OCSR. The track has been rehabilitated and excursions are run with steam and diesel

Man mother nature sure takes things back real quick if given time.

I love to see things like this! Great to see old lines being brought back to life!

Excellent job on camouflaging the super ultra top-secret railroad line to the super ultra top-secret rebel base.

"Honey, a train just went by on those old abandoned rail tracks!" "Sure it did...now Ethel, you gotta lay off the booze, it's makin' you hallucinate!" 😳😂😉

I worked for POTB in 1996, during the rehab projects between Salmonberry and Cochran. We went on duty at Salmonberry road and got our Track Warrants off a fax machine hooked up to a car battery in the old concrete phone booth. Then hopped in a speeder car or hightail truck to get to our train at Enright. You never knew what you’d see in a day on the POTB. I went to work for BNSF a year later where I am today-sitting in the hotel at the AFHT as I type this. Boy this brings back memories! Even the sound of that old EMD reminds me of those days.

The Oregon coast is essentially a cool rainforest. The growth up there in such a short time is staggering.

This is so cool, there's something immensely satisfying about this to me, I don't know what. I'd love to see a video of behind the train and what it looks like after or from the outside

When the guy got out a 4:07 it put a perspective on how big the loco was.

Allen A, you are absolutely correct. The track crew was out for weeks with chain saws and all of the track was inspected by walking it. You can't let it go too long up there or the aldrers will take over. I have a little bit of video from the walkway of the gp 9 behind the f 7 , the brush was so high you couldn't see the cars when we coupled from back there. I will do a part 3 even if it's short.

What's wrong with me. Could watch this for hours, lol. Great stuff!

I kept ducking my head each time a low branch appeared! Cool video!

Way cool! How freaky to be piloting an old diesel through the weeds like that! It's like a weird dream or something!

Loved seeing this! Thank you. I had the opportunity in my last marriage to ride by highrail along some overgrown tracks along the Oregon coast - the rainforest was gorgeous and the beauty of this and the 20 tunnels we passed through is etched in my mind forever!!

Great cab ride. At times you expect a T-Rex or some Velociraptors to come charging out of the trees. This is a national treasure and I hope it survives. - Another Oregon Treasure. Well Done !

This is like trailblazing with a locomotive haha! Cool video! It’s amazing that there are actually tracks, it’s as if this huge piece of machinery floats above the ground!

I never seen something so cool like this before. Thanks for uploading this very cool awesome train video 👍😉

Love it I hate seeing rail lines being abandoned

So cool! I’ve always daydreamed about running a engine through growth like that. Thanks!

Wow! Here in the UK, they cancel trains when there are too many dead leaves on the track!! Great video :)

This video brings to mind my ride on The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad 9 months ago from Rock Away Beach to Garibaldi while vacationing in Oregon Wonderful !

fun video - beautiful rainy scenery, and has a real "you are there" feel - thanks for posting

Alders grow pretty fast. As much as 3 feet a year if they get a lot of rain and in western Oregon they do get a lot of rain. Blackberry vines can grow 10 feet in that same time. Add in all the other undergrowth that is common in an Oregon forest and you get quite a tangle. The brush crew would have had to do a lot of chain saw work to get the tracks as clear as they did for this move. At the same time they could check the track conditions to be sure that the line was safe for the move.

That old 567 sounds wonderful!

4:00 that switch... ten years of more awesome end-of-the line dreams. Beautiful stuff.

Amazing footage! Hard to believe there's train tracks there.

This is crazy 8 up!! So curious and fascinating, with a brave engineer, and videography.

OMG! Can't believe it is staying in the tracks! I love this view!

Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos

Whatever the next stop is, I don't think anyone will be waiting for the train anymore.

4 wheelin' in a train! thats a new one for me ;-)

beautiful landscape. thanks for posting.

This is freaking awesome......why am I just now seeing this? Thanks for sharing

Locomotive sounds like a dream you guys take good care of that engine

Wow. The line has come a long way. Wish I could've been on that f7.

GOD I LOVE VIDS LIKE THIS. long forgotten rail line and BAM out of nowhere a huge beast

just drove through Garibaldi and saw some of the locos and rolling stock. beautiful town.

Love it, and that awesome Mars light!

I imagine that there would be a lot of scratches to the paintwork, the window wipers sound a lot like a turning indicator being left on. I have never seen a train use a track in that sort of condition before, well done and thanks for sharing the video.

Great video! Love the railroad my whole life always wanted to be an Engineer on a train. This would be my dream job

Wow was surprised the rail was ok to go over.... Looks awesome

Testament to good engineering in the first place. " If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise", more like a magical mystery tour. Nothing a few trimmers wouldn't cure though. Great film.

I LOVE TRAINS! Can’t wait to see all of these old tracks come back to life with new technology

Don't understand why anyone would think this is a bad video🤔. Pretty cool train 4X wheeling. Lol

it's amazing, you are like an explorer

Got to work as a maintenance of way employee of the Southern Pacific R.R. on a portion of this line in 1980 when it ran from Tillamook OR. to Hillsboro OR. Very beautiful country.

Love watching these come by. Keep the tracks alive!!

Neat video , thanks for posting it , I live in Oregon 🌲and I hope to ride on a train someday .

I know its an old video now but I just found and subbed to your channel. Definitely hasn’t been traveled in a bit. Beautiful country tho. 😃👍

This is really a marvellous nice fabulous journey full of natural beauty love to watch this

This is fantastic. I'd like to see what the track looked like after the train passed through.

Loved it even though I couldn’t see the rails most of the time 🤗

Pure Craziness ! As A Son of a railroader of 42 years , He would of called you nuts ! But Exciting!

Wow, glad you got through without any equipment damage.

I wonder what it looked like after the train passed....That tickin'....drove me nuts!!!

Railroads own their own property and there is no obligation or rules on how they should maintain it. If an accident occurs they pay for any damage. At such slow speeds if the engine were to derail nothing significant would happen. It would just end up wheels on the ground. A crane would come in to pick it up and put it back on the rails. The track is actually in very good condition from what I can see. Trees might scratch the paint on the engine but unless they are huge would not likely cause a derailment. Rock slides are more dangerous, though I've seen trains moving at speed hit boulders and turn them into gravel.

It certainly is scenic but traveling on this track is an act of faith. Great recording!

This train crew has way more guts than I do! that was a derailment just waiting to happen half the time you couldn't even tell if there were any tracks left there. I would had been too scared to try it.

It's like driving through the jungle, quite incredible

I see they still run this ( temporarily closed for Covid)I am going to do it the next chance I get. Trains are cool, and Oregon is beautiful

Please post more vidoes about this line. This is a great video...

Love the sound of that old locomotive.

The fact that they’re in an F-Unit makes this video 10x better.

Brilliant...would have loved to see what the track looked like after the train went through though

Thanks for the video. Im from western illinois .I plan on modeling the pacific north west. Hope to get to your part of the country in a year or two

I can see it now: Urban explorers: "Cool! An abandoned railroad! Let's explore!" (Train horn heard in the distance. Train rolls by a short time later.) Urban Explorers: What on earth?! Good job on clearing the line! Looking forward to following the progress you guys keep making. Keep up the good work!

Love the 567. All the GPs I worked with were gone before I retired.

wow, great adventure with train on forest tracking hehe

That was just plain cool 👍🏼👍🏼

I remember seeing a freight train along the 101 back in the summer of 98, and even then the tracks didn't even look like they were still in use. I was very surprised to see the train actually !!!!

Amazing footage. Hard to see the rails a lot of the time. How long had this line been unused to grow up that much? Amazing the train made it through all that. Thanks so much for posting this. Very interesting footage. Don't think there is anything else on the internet showing a roadbed this grown up with an actual train passing on it.

9/10ths of the time I can't even see the track..Fantastic!!

El paisaje luce hermoso impresionante,y lo mejor de todo el sonido del motor de la locomotora y la conversación de la tripulación fantástico video gracias por compartir.

Loved watching this!

I like the gyro light which is what Southern Pacific had for years on their locomotives. I assume tracks were inspected before running a train over them. Very risky running over tracks not used in a long time.

that is cool! please show more as they go along

Love this video - I love trains 😊💕💕

What an amazing video!!

I wonder how long since the last train had run through. Never seen anything like this. Thanks for sharing.

That looks like an awesome ride

Is there any more video beyond part 2 such as arriving at Batterson, coupling up, etc and then the return trip? Definitely would be interesting. Enjoyed what video there was!

Nuttin' that a little RoundUp can't fix!

Definitely NOT the type of RR video we see frequently, well done Engineerick ! Poor line could use a ton of MOW volunteers to do even more veg clearing. Hope the nice rounded F-Type head end didn't get scratches on her face. BTW, loved the flashing "Mars" light reflecting on the foliage . Five thumbs up. Subscribed.

I was on support team in Columbus Ohio CSX and I found 15 spine cars trapped for over 5 years in the abandoned NS Buckeye yard next door. They looked fresh out of shop even after sitting so long. The cars were pulled soon after a quick set and release and they were rolling. The SCT were only out by 5 years....

2:28 I saw the rails for the first time. For rampant vegetation this OCSR track makes the Maumee & Western look tidy. The geometry of the track is far better though.

Now this is way too damn cool. I would have definitely enjoyed that ride 😁😎👍🇺🇸🚦💫

Ridding thru the jungle on the wabash cannonball

If that track has been rehabilited, it would be nice to see a new video of it !!

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I always wanted to see something like this

Beautiful panorama.

my dream railroad

Is there a video of what the tracks look like now afterwards in 2018 ?

Need one of those SBB-style snowplows to mow the grass.