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
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.👍👍
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
@@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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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...........................
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.
No this one is in Canada. The old NWP is truly abandoned on the north end. They even left a freight train just sitting on the tracks. They can't bring it back out again because the tracks are washed out. This one is not abandoned. A trespasser could face criminal charges if caught.
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!
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
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.
The best thing about exploring on rails is that you can never really get lost
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
Never lost, but a real butt tightener if you meet a train!
@@raymondherbst7126
If you meet a train ... or another speeder coming the other way.
@@Pranjal90 wet blanket alert
Gets stuck out in the middle of nowhere
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 !!
I couldn’t have said it any better friend !❤️👍🙂
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]
The sound of the wheels hitting the rail joints is fantastic.....
The railroads build the coolest bridges and tunnels, just amazing.
this is Port Alberni to Parksville on Vancouver island the rail line goes around Cameron lake
Just plain Awesome !!, thanks for the efforts and sharing, cheers.
Try to hold your shot at least :03 seconds!
"I thought we were gonna have a beer!" lol
I think I have just found my new favorite hobby 😍
AWESOME video!
You are so fortunate to be somewhere you can do this....FUN!
(old timer logger)
What fun! I'm officially jealous!
Those bridges got my blood pressure up.
Man that is cool, bring your camping kit...water, food, etc. That is a hell of an idea for SHTF.
Just amazing! Those viaducts terrify me lol
Very cool. It would be a great way to spend a sunny afternoon. Good footage Jason
Fantastic video footage and railroad scenery. I will be sharing your video link with my subscribers. Thank you.
This is epic. I want to build one now 😆😆 Thanks for sharing. 👏👏👏
Best rail video I've seen like this.👍😎
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
@Ross
Well, go and see if it's still there.
Totally awesome ride and views.
😍😍😍😍 THAT IS AWESOME !!!
I WILL PAY TO GO ON A RIDE !!!
Wow! That was AWESOME! I am always on edge thinking a train is going to come barreling down the other way!!!!! Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!!!!!
S.C. I think these are abandoned R.R. and no longer used.. Some absolutely gorgeous scenery...
First time seeing this .. Its freak8n Awesome !!!
I’d shit my pants going over them trestles but this looks awesome! 😵
For an abandoned railroad the trestles are in great shape especially the ties
The E&N railway is not abandoned, eternally awaiting government funds to rebuild the infrastructure, but still considered an active railway legally.
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.👍👍
That looks like quite the scenic ride!
I want to do that. I've actually dreamt of doing that! Friggin FANTASTIC 😘
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.
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!
This is bloody amazing. I’d love to do that.
This looks like a blast.
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.
It's amazing that you can do this in other countries, with such huge open spaces.
That is so Way Cool - A Ride I'd Love to Take
That scenery is so beautiful
That is an spectacular place and also the video. I would die to do something like that, thanks for sharing, I love this video :)
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.
Where is this?
@@RuleofFive E & N Railway, British Columbia in Canada.
@@2fast945 Thanks! I thought it was in the US but wasn’t sure. Beautiful country!
love to have the plans to build a speeder...
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!
I’m thinking about buying an old 2seater go kart frame and building a rail speeder out of it and a trailer so I can go camping too!
Great score
fantastic!
I remember going over that trestle on the dayliner many years ago, yeah it's high alright!
Where is it?
@@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
I be scared shitless crossing that trestle
Impressive footage
Wow ang saya naman dyan at ang ganda pa ng view ingat kayo idol full support 💖
Lugar bonito , ficou ótimo seu trolinho , parabéns !
Imagine a ghost steam engine chugs in front of ur rickety trolley 🤣
SUPERB! I wish we had amazing abandoned rail tracks in UK like this Id build a speeder!!
That is so awesome
That is freaking COOL👍🏻😎
Very cool. I have a friend that builds and rides these here in Kansas.
love old railways
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.
The latter.
It would be nice to know the history of the rails that they are on and why the are abandoned.
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
This is the E&N railway if you wanted to look it up especially the Niagara creek trestle. Interesting story behind it.
Nice ride... Thanks
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.
@@AussiePom we love auz
This is the E&N railway on the malahat!
Fuck yea! Van island for the win💪💪
BRILLIANT 👍👍👍👍
👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍
Unattended child alert.
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!
"trestle".
Those bridges are crazy
falcon trestle gave me the willies..and i'm sitting in bed !
That is freaking neat
How Awesome !! I want to do it !
Boy”are we ever high” ……. ya sure ya want another adult beverage ?😂
My thoughts exactly
Just so cool 😎
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.
thats what makes this all so special
I believe there's a line that's at least partly intact from Sherbrooke to Thetford Mines.
It's Canada. And it's disused rail. And if the local or fed's "own" it, then the public "owns" it.
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.
Great Video....
Question...why does everyone use a noisy engine?? Has nobody ever heard the Honda with a noise surprising
muffler??? Just asking...
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?
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...........................
I'M SOO JEALOUX.. FANTASTIC..I'LL PAY FOR A RIDE/TRIP/ADVENTURE:-).KEEP RAILIN..GOD BLESS..KEEP GOIN..LOVE FROM DENMARK
Tacoma Rails Mountain Division, well north of Elbe and Just across from Eatonville
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.
this is the American dream in action.🇺🇸🍻
If it's on Vancouver island then it's actually "the Canadian dream"
What an awesome adventure 👍
OK; great, beautiful. Now, please: the location of this well intact yet decommisioned track? (by the dialogue, sounds like somewhere in BC?)
The E & N.
omg that looks like fun. How does a person go about doing this. Thanks for the video
very nice...
Good job
Thanks for not telling us where it is...
Wonderful way to travel. I assume there are no trains running at the same time.
Is this the Northwestern Pacific line, from Ukiah to Eureka? Looks like the Eel River country, there.
Its the e and n railway at goldstream. I do the same thing
god DAMN this looks fun
I know exactly where this is. I’d love to do this myself, do you have any details about your speeder?
So do I.....
Basically at the end of my street
I've been up to both these trestles. Amazing walk and so much history behind the Niagara creek one.
'That's a nice rail speeder"
That is cool beyond words. Is it light enough to lift to turn it around or do you have to partially disassemble?
I love this. Have you ever met a train?
I personally met a few trains and they were very nice but smelled a bit
Isso é bom pra passeio turísticos
Hi, and thanks for the tour. Is this road open to the public?
Thank You , is the some trackage on the old NWP line between Eureka and Willits?
No this one is in Canada. The old NWP is truly abandoned on the north end. They even left a freight train just sitting on the tracks. They can't bring it back out again because the tracks are washed out. This one is not abandoned. A trespasser could face criminal charges if caught.
If you had a solid roller coaster wheel on all 4 corners what a difference. Could it be done?
Another one I’d love to do but it’s a long way from little old Mt Barker in Western Australia 🤣
Hello good sir, any chance this beast is operational and available to be borrowed for a day. Looks like a blast, that would be an awesome experience.
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!
@johnagiambalvo It is active, we maintain it with heavy equipment and patrol frequently for trees washouts and slides.
This is why I hate RR abandonment's. A lot of these old Track can be still used.
Guess im the first customer ))
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
Yes! My thoughts
Why not a coke machine and air conditioning while your at it
Nice video. What are the extra rails on bridges and trestles for?
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.