them rails aint seen a car for years, prob made em happy to see sombody.

It’s a shame they had to tear down the Ford factory, it had been producing automobiles since the era of the Model T and was also a great spot to watch trains.

Great job on the rail cart, ingenious design. Maybe someday you will engineer a product that could be manufactured in a new factory on the site of the old Ford facility? Ya never know. Keep inventing, keep designing, keep building, this is what we need in this country right now.

There's a talking heads reference in that scene where the factory is gone and now there's nothing but trees and wildflowers

Looks like a fun time. You need a horn. Like a big plastic stadium horns. The kind you BLOW through.

Nice railcar, just love it ... One remark though : You must reduce t,he depth of the flanges on the wheels, you wont keep hitting the fishfplates (railjoiners) anymore ....

The watch out for trains sign was cool.

You are lucky the abandoned railways are left intact. I've seen similar in France. But here in the UK the track is often lifted soon after closure

That is so cool. And the way you made a rail cart. Awesome. Keep up the great work. And your buddy with the rail bike. Neat.

This reminds me of Cambodian Norries (“Bamboo trains”). Basically a flat bamboo platform resting on two axles with flanged wheels, with a belt connecting one of the axles to a rudimentary gasoline engine. Pretty cool stuff.

What a great way to ride. I was just there last fall. It's good to see some of the history was/is still there.

Silence would be infinitely better than this "soundtrack" (no pun intended).

I loved that rail cart!! and even that bicycle system too! subscribed and thumb up! Best Regards.

Very cool! My dad and I used to be in a railroad club waaaay back in the 80’s. He had built a speeder and it was always a really fun time. I’ve been thinking about doing a bike myself. Much love to you guys and be careful in your explorations.

Looks like fun . The tracks look like they in good shape

One of those be great for stealth camp/living eh! Great ideas man!

True. Fun little excursion. One might be surprise surprised what action an abandoned line sees? I have found sections of abandoned lines or where rail traffic isn't as heavy as it once was and all but one line was removed. Also, is fun to see when the rail was made. 👍🏻😉

Very creative young men...keep it going...who knows what you'll design next. See if you can attach a 12v 160w solar panel roof for extended range...

Brilliant lads, such fun.

Quite an interesting journey. Milwaukee had some great industrial spurs but they are sadly torn up. Take that yard and triple the size and that's how the hump yard here looked. Possibly that little pine trée was the Charlie Brown Curse!

This is really cool! We sadly don’t have abandoned rail lines to this degree where I live. Would love to visit this one day!

Your kidneys will look like they went into a boxing match after a day of riding. Awesome video and I think it wouldn't be too hard to throw a little suspension under that rig......just looking to reduce the spinal shock ya know.......with ya in spirit

I like that bicycle contraption!

It jumps every time you pass over a rail joint. Your wheel flanges are too deep.

1:31 At the FROG, your previous wheel jumping was shown to be "a too wide a wheel flange gauge", meaning the flanges of your wheels were "hugging" both rail heads, such that any deviation or tighter (track) gauge -was forcing your wheels to ride the rail top. At the frog, a slightly different effect occurs, in that the wheel flanges Keep to both rails (the one diverging at the frog being followed too tightly) - meaning your wheel gauge was larger than track gauge - result - the wheels JUMPED atop the frog and derailed you (which is precisely why you deleted / edited that bit out, but NOT before I spotted the left wheel riding above the rail-top of the frog.

Love the rail creations! I would love to learn how to make the bike one haha, have fun and reminds me of Half Life!

This is great! I love stuff like this!

That rail go-kart is so cool!

This looks like a lot of fun.

Very cool. Gotta get me one of those!

Now that looks like fun.

Man this is so awesome.

Just love it bro 👍😉saves walking hello from Australia 🦘🍻🦘🍻

Tree: Let's grow here, no one is gonna hurt me on an abandoned railway Tree: 3:12

As always, an awesome video! I am really loving this rail cart series!

Carl must love peddling, kind of like the 'Forrest Gump' of rail cycling. No problem the dude can appreciate the great outdoors...respect. It's a testament to the rail engineering of old when your 'rail speeder' can navigate still perfectly aligned tracks after so many years of no maintenance on them.

I want to ride it. Cool video

need a lawn chair mounted for more comfortable regal ride and maybe a weed-eater for track maintenance along the way - good build

I like the railway cart, pretty cool. Sad to see the factory and abandoned spur. Jobs lost forever.

Cool rides.

You're a Champion.

A rail bike just like the movie The Quest. Cool!

Cool channel buddy 🤘🏻

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Good idea, you can make a petrol powered lawnmower wagon , for cut weeds on long rail tracks. You get two old lawn mowers together to wagon .

Another battery for headlights + a REAL TRAIN HORN!! That's what you need. And paint it in C&NW colors!

Congratulations my friend. I knew you can do it. Now change the sign to Watch out for Rail Carts. Liked the scenery.

Great video. Reminds me of the areas in Buffalo, NY where Bethlehem Steel used to be before closing up in the early 80s.

Enjoyed the ride! Your music fit perfectly 👌 and gives your vid a Wes Anderson vibe.

I'd like to ride on one of those rail carts sometime!

Looks like fun, thanks for sharing !!!!

Reminds me of a Canadian car with square wheels from South Park - que Primus outro

You what would be fun? Making a diesel-electric "speeder". Find a small diesel generator--use it to drive two motors on the back wheels. Then it would be architecturally like one of those big locomotives :)

Hey, again ! Another option ! You need old mini tractor with lawn mower covert to rail track wheels. If you want to build it. You will happy about it. I’m from Australia 🇦🇺

Sign: watch out for trains The railcar and railed bicycle: are we a joke to you?!

Just a thought but you could shrink the size of your "cabin" put gokart or lawnmower tires on the inside add steering that you could lock once on the tracks keeping the same gauge and have a multiuse electric vehicle for getting into and out of those rougher areas where the ruffage is a little too thick to pass easily great video and it being semi modular makes it an even more cool project almost looks like it'd be possible to copy with a metal bed frame

They need to start rehabbing the rails so that in the future we can travel more than one or two hundred miles away f rom our home charging stations!

This music is awesome!

At first I thought the electric cart was some sort of green statement until he started whacking innocent trees in his way.

You mentioned wheel diameter needs tweaking. Yeah, there's a bit too much flange. Maybe brake rotors with a small diameter tire tread wrapped around the hub section. The lug nuts could be used to fasten a plate to keep the rubber tread from coming off. The hub, axle and bearing assembly might be of use as well.

You need some choo choo music here...lol...

Interesting bro love from india🇮🇳

I noticed that it would hop up sometimes I think from hitting weeds maybe add a sorta plow maybe a than sheet of metal that goes in front of the wheels and the cart to help push them out of the way like trains do or maybe add a sorta damper for the front wheels like rubber or a spring to help with the bounces The carts amazing and I exited too see wat else you are going to do

That line was once the EL's main line to Chicago. Now it's the Marion Tallgrass Trail, and if you find it with Google maps and switch to satellite you can follow the right of way.

3:12 so that's what the saw is for!

Need to add a cow catcher!🤣

Id make one of those just to get around

It be wonderful if a trucking company CEO SEES YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEOS AND YOUR GREAT JOB OF SHOWCASING THIS YARD AND LINE AS A FUTURE RAIL TO TRUCK SHIPPERS TRANSLOADS FACILITIES ......CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW "TRANSLOADS FACILITIES scouting electric car .it be cool if you put a 1936 fiberglass autobody on your beautiful cart

Don't forget put in a headlight as well so people can see you in the dark bright fluorescent clothes and they can see you my friend and please be careful and safe travels my friend from Gabriella Rivas from Roslyn heights long island near New York City and have fun as well my friend

The switches are pulled up so they can be used in other places because, switches are hard to make, they use pre-made switches

Nice video...🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Just watching a couple of your videos now. Pretty cool! How long can you drive on your electric rail car? And I believe you said that's 36vdc.. so three 12volt batteries in series. Is 36 volt the max on that motor?.. or what's it rated for? Also you probably live in a more urban area than myself.. or an area that had heavy industry at one point in time so there appears to be alot of railroad.. what's the best way to find abandoned railroad? .. most of what I've seen in my area of Wisconsin the railroad have been made into bike trails.. which is awesome! I do alot of biking on them! But this would definitely be fun to do if there was abandoned track around! 😀

When you hit a rock (as in railroad ballast) do you know how any teeth of your chain saw you will, on average, dull before you can release the trigger? All of them.

its strange that the rails have not been pulled up for scrap.

Ok I wondered how you kept front bike tire on the rail. Now I see

Is this in the twin cities? Take me along on these adventures on the rails!!

I would appreciate a better examination of Carl's 3 wheel design. I actually like both of your concepts. My initial concept was a 3 wheeled (actually 5 wheels) 2 side wheels for off road/ on road and on tracks an 1 wheel for extension to the other track while the other 2 wheels are for off/on road only. I did not have proof of concept for the 3 wheel train track but YOU & Carl provided that, Cheers! SUBSCRIBED!

LoL man, If I was there & had garden tools, I'd definitely clean those areas. It'd be a lot of fun to play-ride there.

The cart is cool! How far on a charge? And that bike is sooo cool!

Clever!

they jave turned those into bile paths in my area. Rumor is they have to keep the weight capacity the same if they replace any sections incase they need to lay rail line in times of nation emergency. Not sure if thats true or not and sadly I doubt we could even make rail in the states anymore on a significant amount to fulfill that need.

Dang I would love to build my rail kart, probably with a stronger motor to go a bit faster, not like dangerous speeds that I could derail but an improvement like a roof and some lights in case someone is on a dark area

It is so sad to see these abandoned rail lines . . . Where is this? Thank you.

Any idea what was on the site? What the future is for the site?

To complete the thing that you are on add some caragese to make it like a real train lol you can store a lot more stuff

Awesome video! What rail was this? What city/state?

Ever thought about making a gas powered version? And a lightweight brush guard for the front. Maybe a flashing hazard light as well?

Just wondering what railroad owns this yard, and how long has it been abandoned? Thanks

Don't let rails to trails in on the secret or those fools will be ripping it up so they can go trekking 😂

What railroad serviced the old factory?

Nice journey but how come the railway tracks aren’t ripped up?

We own a speeder. We bought it a few years ago and have yet to take it for a ride.

Hey awesome stuff where is the list of parts? I think I missed it? Curious what motor that is

I’d love to do this

Would a 5ft long hedge trimmer mounted across the front work for trimming the weeds?

looks like a lot of fun! you gotta mount a chain saw in front of it and put a lawn chair on it.

I am looking for old wooden railway ties for my garden. I live in Vancouver, B.C. Anyone have any ideas for that? Thanks. I really enjoyed this video.

Get them carts out on the main line for some actual fun! Nothing like racing ahead of a speeding intermodal!

cool you went across the grass you can make it an all terrain vehicle call it a TTOS vehicle train track of the road street vehicle lol

What amperage are your set of batteries and how much run time do you get out of them?