Extreme Railbiking Part 1, Life is Like a Mountain Railway, Rail Bikes on Abandoned Railroads.
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- WARNING! Do not ride on active lines or without the permission of the railroad. Trespassing is illegal and can result in arrest, fines and/or imprisonment. Railbiking can be dangerous and result in injury or death.
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This scenery is beautiful. But, I just feel so sad that this beautiful railway is left abandoned. We really should do more to preserve the railways.
totally agreed
It is strange that nobody take rails and recycle them. So much metal to cell!
@@user-uy1wz9dw6v they shouldn’t be taken down and recycled, they should be restored and put back into service
@@laitentierdotcom ok you do it then.
@@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN i am currently active in my community working on this issue
Sucks when you meet the guy coming from the other direction with the super fast deluxe model.
graycloud057 life is pay to win
A train?
these are abandoned rail ways no longer in service. so all is safe.
Right, as if trains are still active on those old ass rails, alot of the track was destroyed aswell.
And pulling 77 box cars
I spoke to a fellow biker about doing this a few years back. For legality issues I never pursued it as we have no unused tracks near us... awesome scenic video.
This was America before all the buildings.
This is what made all the buildings
USA is and was a stupid Land Full of idiots and trump voters
This is America today.
billville111 ya i no that but. I'm saying all of America was beautiful like this before all the cities where built. It gives you a glimpse of what America was in the past. Its like going back in the day
@@enzoprosciutto210 my point is it's more beautiful today than ever if you have eyes to see it.
The 1908 Sears catalog has a Railroad attachment for Bicycles.
I had that same catalog, and in my early 20's I used to ride my gas powered bike (Homelite XL 925 chainsaw engine) everywhere, and built my own "rail rig" with some old crutches and inline skate wheels (and Harbor Freight Alumiweld rods 😂). I used the tracks that go from Downtown Grand Rapids, MI to Wyoming, MI to get to work successfully for about 2 years, until a Wyoming cop sternly lectured me at a street crossing...then I retired it. Good Times! I think a business for taking trips on abandoned tracks with motorized bicycles is a fantastic idea, I'd probably use my design as it folded up on the rack and you could ride it as a regular mountain bike still, and take on any terrain due to the powerful engine.
ive heard alot about this catalog, was it like the Amazon of that time?
@@MrDisgruntledGamer1 It absolutely was
Order that shit
@@teddyrose3142 i can't believe how many of us are on this old video right now.all the comments are from just minutes ago or in the last 2 hours
I crossed some rail tracks...just YESTERDAY...and thought to myself: "Gee, I wonder if I could rig my bike to travel down these lonesome tracks". Talk about premonitions! I HAVE to start work on it TODAY! Great job guys!
The term “Extreme” being thrown around very loosely.. But I gotta say this looks like a damn interesting hobby.
anythings extreme at there age
Dangerous hobby.*
@@veronicadaugherty3760 lmao yea a high risk sport
Did you see 1:30? Imagine airing off that gap!
hey bud, we’re ‘murican everything we do is extreme and oh so special. when we wash the toilet, it’s extreme toilet washing. cause hey we’re’murican.
As a former RR freight conductor I realize that those trestles are SCARY high and also that those little platforms that stick out are probably for conductors to stand on and do car counts and pull-bys (observing the train wheels etc). NOPE!!!
Love the video!
How they built those bridges… Damn. Great scenery.
Steel, Muscle and an Egyptian Pyramid Engineer.
Looks like Cumbres and Toltec line in places
Definitely...Aliens. How could humans stack wood in such a formation? And clearly if you look at it from space, it looks like an alien tittie. Alien titties reflect mass scanning allowing it to be found.
Greetings from Germany, thanks for showing me this nice way of travelling and thanks for sharing this wonderful landscape with us.
@ To Bo I would love to see Germsny like this
To Bo greetings
@@Earthether
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Hallo, liebe Grüße zurück aus Tschechien. Würde selber gerne so was ausprobieren. Im Bahnhof Zossen, 20 km von Berlin entfernt, kann man auch solche Schienenfahrräder fahren. Es gibt so viele Dinge, die sich anbieten, einfach ausprobiert werden zu sein. :-)
as a kid i lived next door to the rail and a train trestle. yeah “TRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNN! drank water from Coyote Creek just below it. its still there but smack in the middle of silicon valley. i can still remember the smell of them old rail road ties creosote and diesel. the house would shake like crazy. The horn would blow you right out of bed. Also running from the hobos who we thought were going to kill us and eat us. great times.
Where are talkin about I grew up next to the tracks in Santa Clara Ca ...the hobo’s were scary back in the early 70’s
You guys are maniacal geniuses... I had no idea such a thing existed. Thanks for sharing...
@CharacterMatterz The concept of a rail bike has been around for many years. I've seen photos of them being used from the early 1900's. And they are just as cool today as they were back then :)
*Looks alternatively like lots of fun and considerable terror.*
*You've got a lot of courage lol, don't let your wives catch on those trestles!*
There is probably more people who build rail carts like go karts than there is rail bikes!!!
I think I would like a motorcycle adapted to rail travel.
I LOVED seeing this, and had never heard about it before. What a sense of freedom, and connecting to our country's history. The design, labor and funds that went into building those beautiful bridges, and they are, for all intents,and purposes, abandoned. Thank you for posting! hope there'll be many more.
I don't know why but those wooden bridges make me feel happy. I imagine the guys building them years ago and how they have stood all this time through many summers and winters.
Have you seen the tv series “hell on wheels”? It’s about the building of the railways to the west after the civil war. It’s a drama of course but they show the building of the rails, trials and tribulations related to such a huge undertaking and there are some bridges they made.
Some of the shows main characters were based off real folks who built the railways and approx timeline. It also shows the railways being built from the east to the west coming through the mountains.
It’s an interesting show to be sure.
Yeah, all those chinese railway workers didn`t die for nothing. `Merica.
you realise the guys building them were slaves right? they could have cared less how long it would have lasted..,.
@@CR604 first, it's "couldn't have cared less.". Second, not all of them were slaves. Third, why don't you think slaves took pride in their work?
@@CR604 Yeah, true... But I bet they'd rather have something still standing today to show what they did, even under oppressive conditions. It's a testament to how our country linked east to west, and became the "United States" both despite and because of the ugly underbelly of the how and why it happened. Why would we want to not discuss our past? I mean, nobody said you should glorify the railroad tycoons. Ignoring the story of how the railroads were built is a disservice to those who built them - not the other way around.
The neat thing about riding on rails is that there are never any really steep grades, that is what always gets me winded on a bike.
2:39 That moment on the bridge when you hear a steam locomotive roaring up behind you and there's no where to go, but then you realize it's just a ghost train.
Alan Minne LOL I’d find out where they do this, and bring along a nice train horn.
Good one
yes Jp, at the end of a tunnel, or bridge, with a spot light, and a train horn.
Oh. Just a ghost 😂 Ohhhhh shhhhhhhiiiiiiiittttttttttt Pedel faster Dude
Wow. People find a sport everywhere.
Some of the best Railway scenery in the United States! Thanks Peter!
Wow, didn’t even know this was a thing. Awesome! Love those massive trestle bridges
It's been a "thing" of a sorts for a long time. Check out this old drawing from pre-revolutionary Russia:
i.pinimg.com/736x/e5/4b/37/e54b37b4123c2f6d525b0f272d26a238.jpg
He is a Trans Siberian Railroad official inspecting the rails.
@@Ferndalien what the hell is a 'thing'...
@@robertallen6710 Ask "Dick" "Johnson"
Take a hike, or a train. Fat...
Rocco T What?
Thank you so much for recording and sharing this. It looks extremely relaxing and serene, but I think the bridges would give me pause.
These tracks runs along 95 in Idaho. It's very sad to see them left abandoned. Awesome engineering work to see the wood built bridges.
Great American history.
What is 95? Highway? I can see only 90 on the map
@@diegoslinger1254 90 is an interstate you idiot ( ancient
grrek meaning), 95 is Idaho 95 an highway and the RR is the Camas Praire RR.
Hello. Accidentally came across your channel, and I really liked your video. Beautiful scenery and breathtaking heights. Greetings from Russia.
Yes me to really good .liked the music to 👍
Hey ruski, when you give back Crimea to Ukraine ?
Fuck you.
In soviet Russia, you dont ride train, train ride you!
@@rochester212 NO
Railbiking dude 1: "isn't this like the best sport ever?"
Railbiking dude 2: "yeah! Hey, is that a light coming toward..."
Ya, always double check to make sure the tracks are de-comissioned! lol
Amazing! I recognized these trestles immediately, though I've only seen them from the ground looking up. I made dozens of trips up and down the Winchester grade hauling loads out of Clearwater Paper in Lewiston. The trestles always got my attention as I tried to imagine what it would be like to go over them. Thanks to you, now I know!
I thought it was Washington state, but sometimes impossible to be sure. I'm in Olympia myself.
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Beautiful scenery. Makes me nostalgic for an America I never got the chance to see. Back when every man could climb a mountain and call it his own, and the landscape ran unbroken by the seeds of greed and corporate interest. The land that created a vision in the minds of its people that promoted freedom, and that consequently landed us in these troubled time when too many subscribed to it. An unsustainable way to live, but a way in which each individual can live his own life to the fullest, and truly experience the beauty around him.
The stories those tracks could tell, great music. Super jealous, wish I had some abandon tracks around here!
You might!
John Kuchera! I don't know where you are, but if you're interested in bike-hiking on old railroad tracks, old hydro canals, crossing old hydro and marine canal pipes, walking along the Niagara Escarpment on the Bruce Trail, unless you really like to climb around, with the Niagara Parkway and the shore of Lake Erie as relaxing places to be, you should visit the Niagara Peninsula for a visit. The old steel factories were fun to look around, but they've all been torn down.
John Watt I’m in Washington state, got a buddy that works for BNSF railroad track maintenance, I’ll be asking him if he knows any secret squirrel spots
John Watt oh haha, secret squirrel meaning hidden spots. Guess not many people use that term. What’s the longest distance you’ve gone on abandon tracks?
@@ShreddinSleds! Don't forget, my abandoned tracks have the rails removed with an asphalt path. I like to pull an all-nighter, yes, even if I'm 67, and start riding after the sun goes down, dressed for the night. I'll bike-hike through the next day and start coming back at night. I wish I could use some photos here. If I want it rough I have the Niagara Gorge. I'm pushing and carrying my bike where other people have to be helicopter rescued.
This just popped up in my suggested videos, subscribed to see what you got. Used to jump the train and ride to the next town and jump off and walk to my grandpa's house to hang out and tell him a friend gave us a ride. Then we'd tell him our ride back home was meeting us at a certain time in town to go back home. Now that I'm older I get that when he heard the train horn and said "y'all are about to miss your ride" and we took off running he knew exactly what we were doing. As far as I know he never told my Dad! Oh how this video brought back memories! Thank you!!!!!!!! My Dad and best friend is 82 now...might just have to confess about this one and see what conversation that one drums up...BTW beautiful video!
Hi Jeff, you might be interested in: myhappyhobodays.homestead.com/story.html
I always wanted to make a railway bike
Do it. I built 3 failures before i got one that was somewhat reliable and stable... even the one that worked had its warts.
It is a wonderful creative process. Just build, and ride... you'll come back with new ideas, and get back to building anew.
I do my most creative thinking just walking along the rails, looking at defects that don't bother trains, but really mess with a railbike.
You'll also learn to read rust. One rail line I walked, had three short trains per week. I lived about a quarter mile from the track, and I'd hear it rolling through town just before noon.
The train speed limit on these single track spurs is also slow, 15mph. The rail is also not welded, but bolted. This is a sure sign of slow, infrequent traffic.
Good luck!
Why? So a train can crush it
See tracks?
THINK TRAIN
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@@veronicadaugherty3760 You obviously know nothing of the rail system in this country. Emphisis... Nothing.
I've been riding rails since the mid 80's. Careful selection of where to ride is obviously, the first decision to make. Next, is to observe the construction of the rail.
Fish plates at rail joints means traffic is limited to 15 mph. Welded rail... NO.
Next is the acquired skill of reading rust. If you love railroads, you walk rails, observe rail wear.
Where our author is riding is abandoned, no train traffic. Did you notice rock slides across the rails? Washouts? If you read the lowbar, you would know he had permission to use these rails from the right-of-way owner.... and he probably signed a waiver.
@@veronicadaugherty3760 Did you not see how abandoned the lines were and the multiple statements saying they had permission and weren't trespassing?
Looks awesome and abandoned railroads and roads/ buildings are one of the more interesting things in life due to history or just plain cool.
I agree
back in the 60"s us local boys would run our 50"s cars and trucks on the rail line and go across trestles [ not that high ] which took nerve but for the most part lower tire pressure to around 20 lbs get on at a road crossing and drive about 20 mph tops but don't touch the steering All cars and trucks pre1965 were the right track width . Thought we were cool and to top it off My Dad showed us how to do it Now at 66 years I want to build a Rail Bike Looks like a load of fun and no real hills to speak of .
Early 70s I had a friend who saw The Flim Flam Man movie and insisted we try that trick with his 60 something Pontiac Lemans. We first tried it on a side track between 2 crossings 1/4 mile apart. It worked so good we put it on the main and went several miles on an active track. This was in the prairie of MN Red River Valley, along and in plain sight of Hwy 75, on a Sunday afternoon an hour after the daily train had gone by. Our so called "measure of safety" was that we could see any train coming from miles away and had many crossings to get off at. I told that story to a co-worker about 1978 and he flat out called me a liar! A couple beers later--- we put the air tank in the trunk and drove my rusty 68 Firebird down to the tracks, lowered the front tire pressure and went 2 miles, turned around and went back, twice crossing the bridge over the Crow River between Rogers & Monticello MN. It was a dead end spur used occasionally to take freight in, or a nuclear waste shipment out, of the Monticello power plant. I have since watched Flim Flam Man and it looks fake! It would never have convinced me this was possible but we rolled along maybe 15-20 mph, smooth as silk and hands off the wheel. I do remember a little panic when we came to a siding switch, I grabbed the wheel to keep it straight, and you could feel car lift and settle just a bit as we crossed the switch diverge points.
theres only a few of us left
Thats just awesome. I love it
@@Bitterrootbackroads Get story! Thanks for sharing.
I ran out of breath and passed out while trying to read that.
This looks really relaxing and beautiful! Never knew this was a thing! Thanks for the video and God bless you :)
Except if a trains comes in either direction...
@@cachi-7878 all these railroad tracks are abandoned and have been for a long time
Wonderful!!! The bridge at 340 in is spectacular! Can't imagine the building of that back in the day
Not sure crossing that first bridge would be relaxing, I’d be shitting myself hoping this abandoned bridge is still structurally sound and I don’t do something stupid
@@SIUDubFiend
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In the southeast the abandoned railways disappear in 20 years. Mother nature reclaims them quite rapidly.
Hi Peter, My husband has a railbike and would like to know where this trussel is located.
Love your videos!!!
Contact the owners they'll tell ya
It's no longer accessible.
The answer is in the ending credits. Google to verify too.
@@oriolesfan129
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Why would anybody in their right mind want to ride over that trestle and risk falling over the side? Not me!
could this be a tourist activity...that looks like a vacation waiting to happen.....smiles here
There is a company called Rail Explorers USA that has a few routes - one is in Catskills, NY.
Looks more like an 'accident' waiting to happen to me! ;) Seriously, I love the concept, but for me I'd prefer to stay within about 6 feet of terra-firma.
I th ought the same thing and then someone falls off the track and sues everyone and then no one can ride the rails anymore. Happens every time.
Look up Gattan Go! in Kamioka, Japan :)
@@erikdeeNOSPELLSNO, does the contract become valid only if it is sung in tune?
Fabulous scenery. Beautifully constructed railroads...a real testament to the men and women who toiled to bring them into existence. Just imagine, the local history surrounding those rail lines?! What stories those trees could tell... Very nice and very nicely done! Thanks for sharing.
it is sad many tracks are not being used and abandoned. beautiful video.
Nice, I was dong this for years 30 years ago and I believe you had this model back then. The guide wheels have a magnet. Glad to see you are still doing it. I really loved my time rail biking east of San Diego in the Carrizo Gorge.
COULD YOU IMAGINE BUILDING ALL THOSE BRIDGES??!! Thats so intense!
Trestles, not bridges...
I know, because I live amongst some of the largest:
www.myratrestles.com/
I think they were probably built by multiple people.
@@dfgyuhdd men
They had help and free labor.
all built by the white man, back when america was great.
Wow! Thank you for showing me something I have never ever seen or heard of before!
We used to cross an active train truss bridge all the time when I was a kid. That's how I would get to my grandma's house and back on foot.good times, running like hell to get to the other side when we heard the train whistle. And it was a long way to the other side, and a long fall to the river below.
Stand by Me movie 😊
@@hitthebricks5502 never seen it. But I will be sure to check it out 👍
That’s so nice. Do you know what railroad used this line
Wow. Those views from the bridges were amazing. Surprising how clean most of those tracks were given that they've received no maintenance in years. Great video.
I'd be doing this during the zombie apocalypse.
I'd rather have a sailboat for zombies
Maybe you guys could work together, you can’t stay on the boat the whole time
Johnny Gunz ...You need one of these, to get to your hidden sailboat.
The fastest way to stay
safe/hidden is where there are
no roads...
Practical!!!!
Watch out... I’ll be hunting people to eat.
That really large and long curved wooden bridge was spectacular! Where is this located? I've never heard of rail biking before. at first I thought you were adrenaline seeking Daredevils on live tracks.
In the description Bountiful Grain and Craig Mountain Railroad. Google says northern central Idaho. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BG%26CM_Railroad
I love in northern Utah so maybe drive and see it someday. 10ish hours drive.
It's called a trestle.
Beautiful.Thank you for putting this on film so I can enjoy it.
That was wonderful! Never heard of it, but loved the music.
Very cool video. Thanks for showing the "portage" sections where you carried the bikes.
Had no idea, had never heard of this activity. Kudos for a great video, but I have to admit, my fear of heights had me wanting to grab the arms of my Lazy-Boy recliner while watching you cross those high trestles. Man, I hope those rigs are nicely counter-weighted. What an incredible experience it must be out in the wild riding those old rails Thanks for sharing.
"Hey... I will back later. Going for a bike ride across America."
In Sweden this is offered commercially by local operators - you rent the bike.
@Bobby Brady It's unknown the first time.
That is crazy cool. I hope there is enough counter weight to make sure you DON'T flop off those high rail bridges.
just stick a bag of dirt over the outrigger idler wheel and keep adding until theres zero doubt
i like to try it on a old hand car with camping eqpmt and go cross country
@@briannotafan3368 too hard to get those past block/destroyed rails
love those bridges , love the song, a.t.b. from lancaster u.k.
@shillslayer yep
Lancashire here 👋 those views 😍 makes our countryside look boring 😅
Whoa,,, - - - in GOD's grace evermore - - - - indeed,,, Thanks so much for sharing with words of warning as well,,,
Safe, happy & blessed travel on your all journey,,,
Loved this video! Have always been fascinated with trains; they are regularly featured in my dreams. Must be high adventure to bike across abandoned railways. Ms’ Buller’s rendition of that ‘Ole country hymn takes me back to the beginning where my mother and a sister friend at that little baptist church sang this as a duet. Very rich memory for me and a treasure I often refer to. Thank you! PWG
I was a bit sceptical when I read 'extreme' in the title, but it actually is. Amazing pictures.
@Andy Burns cool story bro
I'd say that was extreme all right. Takes courage to cross bridges that high. My god. . I'm impressed. Must have been exhilarating. I'm envious.
"extreme" they went 5 km/h, if they went 50+ km/h then it would be extreme
@@horseradish843 i got here from extreme kitesurfing megaloops...is a bit more intense than this.
Greetings from Auckland New Zealand. This is beautiful.
Man, sorry to hear what happened over there. It's a cruel world.
Thank you. I’ve asked several people to watch your video. Have a wonderful day.
Wow, great vid. I like the bike where the guy had a back-rest. Where could I see more of these modded bikes?
Amazing! One more for the bucket list.
Oh Man, great adventure to get to my new fishing holes!!!
lol i was thinking that also... sure i saw a fish in that river
Just get me on it and something will bite 👍
Quite a bit of bicycle portage required on damaged rails.
I never cn nothing like that in my life. What a beautiful clear sunny day with fresh air. The views were epic I liked the music 2. The labor that went in2 building them hi in the sky rafters is mind blowing. Iam so impressed I'll watch it again. U people have ( guts) that's 1 hell of a hobby. GOD bless u & yr loved 1s with great health wealth happiness & wisdom. Then share it as freely as u shared yr video.
I loved it. ☆
Lean left , lean left. : )
No doubt!
@@sanddabz5635 I thought that too, looks like there's a counterweight on the left.
REALLY left!
Not too far Left otherwise youre a Commie
@@pyromaniac354 Sort of ironic since a national railway system could be considered a Commie project. :D
Almost gave me vertigo! I'd crap my pants just looking at that bridge, never mind actually crossing it. 😱
I wouldn't be able to cross it. My anxiety would go insane, I'd cry, etc.
@@JillyBean860 Me too, and I'm a 6 foot 280 pound man! 🤯 🤣🤣🤣
Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing. Where can I get my hands on one of those bikes and rigs. ✌️💙
Great video! It looks so peaceful. And I do especially appreciate that permissions were aquired for both the music used and for the activity itself. Too many idiots do dangerous things without permission or steal music for their videos.
1:31 wait.. you didn't ride across? I thought this was extreme railbiking? :D
Extreme got me to click. It's neat not extreme.
I know this is not the intent of this video but this would be an excellent way to travel in a grid down scenario.
Robert Blakemore Technically speaking yes but I bet there’d be some not so nice folks on the tracks too
The views are breathtaking! My sister and I used to sing that song as a duet years ago, one of my favorites. You've got some amazing stamina, carrying your bike over mangled or covered track.
Extreme rail biking in my world would require a minimum of 1000 cc's
Did you see how old these dudes are? Anything they do at that age is extreme :-D
There are videos of guys who got a sofa with a kart engine and they ride along lines like this with a beer
Age 70 & RTR. Dad's Vintage Garage - Great Idea for Senior Fun Trip.
Just waking up in the morning is extreme for these old timers
Wow you sound pretty extreme!
Thanks man I love bikes but this is another level beautiful shots
Isn’t there a risk of ghost trains coming along?! 👻🚂
LOL at the emoji use.
Back7sword I was thinking the same thing. Ghost trains freak me the hell out. I got hit by 3 of them when I was younger. Scary stuff man. ☠️👻🚂🛤️
Watch out for Casey Jones
I saw Casey Jones and John Henry right there at the curve before the tunnel... So long ago...
the video was intimidating enough that most people won't even consider the "what if a train" until they are half way into it. Nominating this for "all time best of youtube"
Imagine the labor that went into building those railroads. Our ancestors must've been very strong and determined.
Alot of hookers and wiskey was there motivation
not your ancestors, they were all chinese building those rail tracks ..
Very beatuful places! Congrats and thanks for sharing.
WOW what a beautiful way to see railroad history and this beautiful country
we are blessed to live in a country this beautiful
Where is it? Mexico?
blessed? I think the word is "fortunate".
Peter Houle why do you have to be that person
@@phoule76 ....no, he had it right. BLESSED 🙏
Red Redemption 2 lol
3:01 would anyone else have a full on panic attack? Beautiful song btw
oh what a nice video, with a very nice song?; i enjoyed it very well; thank very much for sharing it with us;
guy chance yes
WOW! Those trestles look a bit scary
my luck shit would break going over a george
RIP Dwayne Foster, January 5, 1961 - June 17, 2018. In God's grace, for evermore. Road the rails on Franklin's Landing, found the railroad was not abandoned.
Is that true?
Rode, not road.
@@anasmrright make me a sammich
That’s the one thing that would prevent me from doing this. You’re on a bridge and a train comes, you’re done.
@@ohmanyourecool1 They said right here that these are ABANDONED rail lines - historic but no longer viable routes for commerce, so abandoned and unmaintained. Did you watch the whole video or just comment, I mean - there are HUGE washouts, with bridges collapsed, how do you suppose a train would traverse those twisted tangles of rail and lumber to meet you on a bridge? Anyone who would do this on an active line would be an IDIOT begging for some Darwin effect.
I'd heard of bikes that could ride on train tracks, but your videos are the first ones I've seen.
The wooden bridge is amazing.
I don't know how this ended up in my feed,but! By golly I enjoyed the music and the views.
Thank you!😉👍
What an amazing experience this would be. Beautiful countryside too. Great for tourists too i'd expect.
Mr. Hoffman. I never really thanked you for saving my life. If you had not pulled me out of the way of that truck, surely I would be dead. Thank you. My wife thanks you and my children too. You are a good man. I hope this finds you well and happy. James
A friend of mine had a similar hike not long ago. He had a scary moment where he met a freight train inside a long tunnel. He had to quickly get the stuff off the track and squeeze himself up against the tunnel wall and pray that he wouldn't get sucket in under the train as it passed by in a very high speed.
Clarification: He thought the track was abandoned as locals never seen any trains on it for many many years. Apparently, that freight train was the first one in many years. Of course, he had to meet it at the worse possible situation: inside a narrow tunnel.
looks like Idaho! it's beautiful but you guys are crazy! a good gust of wind could blow you right off of one of those train trestles!
that is exactly what I was thinking just a bit off balance or a gust of rogue wind and to the bottom you go.
It doesn't "look" like Idaho. You googled "Camas Prairie Railroad" and saw that it was in Idaho and Washington St.
profd65 it looks like Udaho
@@placesaroundus hahahahaha
My Grandpa was a Union Rep for a Lumber Mill .
So me and my cousin knew where some old equipment was stashed
Two peaces that we got to use were a Handcar ( Gandy ). And a pump bike aka ( velocipede )
These bikes sort of reminds me of the last . Except for one thing .
On a Velocipede you pumped with both your legs and arms more so if you're on a 5 % incline because you are all alone on it
Were two or more people are on the handcar took turns pumping .
We would have to be in good shape to start with , but as I said we were kids and got down to the rail yard early Saturday morning and we would go down the line to a open field to play and have a picnic .
And just in case you were wondering .
The logging trains didn't run on the weekends ... Unless we got our Lionel trains set up .
Thats what we bikers [push] are velocipedes!!! sounds like a great child hood you had their ..lol..
This is awesome! Grew up in NTx walking tracks to our fishing ponds back in the late 80s.We finally came up with something like your riding.Good times we should do again.
Excellent video! And I love the music. That trestle must be close to the Goat Canyon Trestle in So Cal. Great Job, Thanks!
pretty cool hobby you guys have picked up. kudos.
Congratulation from Brazil! US Brother!!!
Gotta love North Central Idaho! That line from the Clearwater Ri. to Graingeville is gorgeous. And those timber tressell bridges are some of the most photographed bridges in N. America
first time i hear about railbiking, man this looks extreme fun and relaxing together, what an great idea
man those large wooden bridges are a bit scary.
0011clem raptor my thoughts exactly. I think i would have been putting a few extra boulders onto the platform of that outrigger wheel to stop the entire thing tipping over up on those trestles.
great video...have you thought of designing a quick release system that would lock two rollers on the rail, one top and one underneath?...this would be safer, lighter and you wouldn't be dragging that weight around
Good idea. I think the difficulty may be that these old rails are joined by plates that don't leave much clearance for anything riding on the underside of the head of the rail. Another way is to center the load between the rails. Take a look at this: th-cam.com/video/m0jvErJnSzc/w-d-xo.html. Of course, what are shown there are not practicable when one person has to lift the conveyance past an interruption in the rails. Still, it seems that something relatively lightweight that puts the load between the rails and lowers the center of gravity should be possible. Relying on a counterweight to keep me from free falling off one of those trestles would not please my life insurance company.
SirWrecksy I guess you've never heard of what are known as Joint Bars? And who knows what the gauge is on that old track structure. No one, that's who. Drop through on wide gauge on one of those old trestles and we'll all read about your death in the newspapers. And how your beneficiaries are trying to sue someone for your stupidity. lol
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wow, Goat who shit in your cereal? why the anger? just a simple, innocent question from a non engineer and you go off the rails...maybe you were drunk when you wrote that or your meds wore off, but reread what you posted, you humilate yourself, very sad
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You must have nerves of steel! Great adventure with a friend!
I wonder how my road-race knees would handle this? Minimal hills - except that portage and climbing - carrying all that extra weight... groan....
Sucks when you have to carry that heavy counter weight to another section of track.
Not if its a lawn mower engine.... with a belt....
Then it's not a bicycle - and no exercise.
An "authentic railbike" is a bicycle that has added equipment enabling it to be ridden on the rails. The equipment can be removed in a matter of minutes and the bicycle is ready for the street. If a piece of equipment is built specifically for use on the rails, or is motorized, it no longer can be classified as a bike.
The counter weight should be a backpack.filled with provisions!
@@markJones-yz6ke The 12oz kind!
Some of those tracks look scary. How do you find the railroads to ride on?
By doing research on the internet, simple.
@@bobanderson2895 Researching the internet 40 years ago? Somehow I really doubt that...
@@Vinterfrid I believe he meant people have been riding abandoned rails by bike for 40 years.
I don' think he meant researching old tracks by the Internet 40 years ago.
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@@incrediblesimilarity5858 Yes, I understand that he was referring to present day conditions. However, there were a time before internet and people still managed to find those railways...somehow.
@@Vinterfrid Prior to the internet's existence, if there was a nearby active line then those seeking to discover the abandoned tracks tried this method.
While very dangerous they would approach a hobo encampment carrying alcohol and cigarettes.
The hobos then traded abanded track information for alcohol and tobacco products.
Check out the home made engine powered rail vehicles on TH-cam.
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You made a makeshift cart using your bike to pedal, it’s pretty cool the way you did it to stabilize the bike and make sure you don’t drop off the bridge, but that’s not extreme. Extreme is like those guys that go to the top of a Rocky Mountain in a mountain bike an start peddling down hill in what seems to be a 5 inch path, sometimes jumping cliffs and at times rolling down the cliff at almost 90 degrees, that is extreme and scary.
What you did was safe and quite relaxing, very Zen like. Extremely cool! Yes I’ll give you that. I bet you could find some really nice places to camp.
I like the melody. I believe the original song was called The Vacant Chair and it is Pre-Civil War.