Those "round rocks" I've seen before when I worked at Kaiser Steel in Fontana California. Pellets of iron ore is what they are. The gondola cars would occasionally leak when the bottoms wore out.
Maybe add some kind of metal rod/bar that sticks out a feet or so. That way you can't fall down between the 2 tracks if they widen up 😅. Great machine, a bit loud, but great project nevertheless! Greetings grom Belgium
COOL VIDEO! COOL RIDE! NEED TOO FIND A SHUT DOWN OLD LONG ROUTE N TAKE A LONG CRUISE. PUT YOU A CANOPY OVER THE TOP FOR SHADE N STRAP A HUGE COOLER ON BACK N GO
We've done that here near our house in Sweden. But without engine but with bicycle drive and the tracks are not in the desert but go through a huge forest area.
It's a pity that the journey ended at the 23km mark. There's actually another sixty-odd kilometres of track up to the Eagle Mountain Mine, just around the bend from where the track ended in this clip. In fact, in Google Maps if you scan about 500 metres slightly north of east of where the track ends, you will find where the continuation of the track resumes.
At 2:25 - looks like taconite pellets. It's a pelletized form of iron ore. This form is easy to ship for further refinement elsewhere. It's cheap ballast for the tracks, if there's a mine nearby. If not, it may be that some was spilled here, and they didn't bother to load it back on the car. If you get back there, see if it's attracted to a magnet to confirm this is really what it is.
Wow! Thanks for the info. We were wondering what the hell that stuff was. The tracks did go all the way to a iron mine. Next time I'm up there I'll bring a magnet.
The title had me thinking Eagle Mountain in Utah. Regardless, this looks fun and is something I'd like to do some day, I found this line and as far as I can tell it terminates at what appears to be some mining operation (maybe 40-ish miles of track). The track seems to be severed in a few spots, but it looks like there's some lengthy runs that you could check out. Anyway, thanks for the upload. On a side note, I've wondered what kind of trouble one would be in if someone called this in.
Que hermoso viaje, no puedo creer que dejaron esas hermosas vía abandonadas, es increíble, les felicito por hacer ese gran viajes para el recuerdo, aca tambien los gobiernos han dejado muchas via abandonadas, en una pena tremenda y se han llevado todo el dinero. Saludos desde Chila Luis Felicidades por el viaje.
The tracks should still go all the way to the Eagle Mountain Mine. Periodically Los Angeles County makes noises about reopening the line to the mine to dump trash in it. They decide not to for environmental reasons, then 10 years or so later, refloat the idea. I seem to recall at least 3 attempts since the mine shut down. 😮
Need reverse of a high rail kit with go cart or lawn mower wheels and tires. Pivot the rear rubber tired drive on pillow block bearings so a chain from the rail wheel drive axle always spins the rubber tire axle. A single lever somewhere below the drivers knee centerline on a shaft to both sides could easily lower or raise bot rubber tire axles. No steering on either. New rail wheels. Wide flat areas. With a bolt on wheel flanges so if the gauge widens you dont drop in. Nothing going to stop you when a rail is past the end of a tie. Hopefully there is a pipe mounted on the deck for a 8 foot patio umbrella to be mounted after removal and reconnecting the lower tube. A battery powered hedge trimmer.
Uh!!! -- Those "Weird Round Rock" (looking like gravel stuff) Is "Pelletized" Iron Ore... Rounded-shaped melts better in the smelter furnace -- prevents bunching and clogging together -- the smelter is called a "Blast Furnace".
4:40. That's not the California Aqueduct. It's the Coachella Canal that transports Colorado River water from the All American Canal northward to the Coachella Valley.
I thought the whole track is disassembled. Turns out part of the track still exists! Good to kno0w! Some day I will have enough time to make my speedster too, to have a ride there! BTW there is an abandoned railroad track going from Hemet to Temecula. It has its track cut ad bent in several places going towards Temecula, so it is absolutely safe to ride it - there will e no trains there.
If you had not panned over to your right, I could have counted the rails to tell you how long the bridge was. From what I could see at the beginning of the bridge, it is about 14 rails long or 546 feet (approximately).
Some assholes vandalized the tracks where they were wide. Looks like they stole some spikes and spread the tracks. Watched a few guys go all the way to the end of the rail recovery area a few months earlier and that never happened. Vandals suck. This should have been bought by the government and made into a hike and bike trail with pedal / electric bikes that ride the rails.
Yah. Not sure how the tracks got that way. It was for about 15ft if track before it returned to normal width. My buddy jumped and ran it out. I went sliding on my butt down the middle. I was sore, but good times though. 🤙🏻
The cart was made by myself. I just bought a welder and winged it. My first run had fixed wheels. I later changed to a spring loaded backing plates on the wheels using car valve springs.
From what I can tell- they used rubberized caster wheel, but they added the round steel plate on bolts. Pretty good idea, I should adopt that for my speedster wheeels, but perhaps with bigger diameter available.
@@digimaks That is correct. Just some rubberized caster wheels with spring loaded plates on the back to compensate with changing track width. These tracks are pretty old.
I believe it was for an open quarry mine for iron ore. The mine closed down years ago. Eagle Mountain mine. It is a modern day ghost town now. Kinda cool. Google it.
More like a new railroad called (Eagle Mountain Scenic Railroad) that has really all Southern Pacific Locomotives ➕ SP 4-8-4 #4449 SP 4-8-4 #4460 & all the rest Southern Pacific diesel locomotives
If you want to avoid wider track sections make one side of your cart with a spring loaded telescopic extender attached to the wheels so it can get wider or smaller at any point
You guys totally effed this up. No background as to what that building was, no shots of what you were riding, what its original purpose was, etc.. Epic fail.
This Rail seems to be very popular.....seen a few vids of this track......Good job.............JB.
The weird round rocks are iron ore pellets I'm pretty sure. Used them for slingshot ammo as a kid.
came to say the same thing
It's taconite.
Correct. From the Eagle moutain mine.
Same. Grew up near tracks withem and would fill up ice cream pails for my slingshot. "Weird round rocks". I'm mean seriously dude?
I would love to ride the rails like you guys!!!
This looks like a lot of fun. I had no idea there was such a thing.
@ THE_G...Lots of rail speeder vids. Check them out!
Those "round rocks" I've seen before when I worked at Kaiser Steel in Fontana California. Pellets of iron ore is what they are. The gondola cars would occasionally leak when the bottoms wore out.
Maybe add some kind of metal rod/bar that sticks out a feet or so. That way you can't fall down between the 2 tracks if they widen up 😅. Great machine, a bit loud, but great project nevertheless! Greetings grom Belgium
Blazing Saddles is all I can think of! Love this!!!
Dang near lost a hundred dollar hand cart
L.S. ...............the Camp Town Ladies ?????????????
That looks great fun. There’s something about abandoned railways.
True
Very cool. Time to buy/build a speeder!
Would love to do this! some cool tracks here in Texas that would make for a great adventure.
My thoughts exactly! Out here in east Texas, there’s whole abandoned networks around some of these old oil and log towns
@ DELTY...Be SURE that the tracks are TRULY abandoned! You MAY have to get permission???
Nice railcar build
COOL VIDEO!
COOL RIDE!
NEED TOO FIND A SHUT DOWN OLD LONG ROUTE N TAKE A LONG CRUISE.
PUT YOU A CANOPY OVER THE TOP FOR SHADE N STRAP A HUGE COOLER ON BACK N GO
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO SIR , Abdul Rashid WAZIRABAD PAKISTAN💖
Oh my gosh that was truly amazing!!!!!! Looks like fun, I wish I could do that,. AWESOME, AWSOME!!!!!!!
Alot of fun !!
We've done that here near our house in Sweden. But without engine but with bicycle drive and the tracks are not in the desert but go through a huge forest area.
Nice ARFCOM hat!
Thanks! Sadly that day the wind blew it off my head down into some bushes, and I could not find it. 🤔
🙏👍💕great love your passion.
It's a pity that the journey ended at the 23km mark. There's actually another sixty-odd kilometres of track up to the Eagle Mountain Mine, just around the bend from where the track ended in this clip. In fact, in Google Maps if you scan about 500 metres slightly north of east of where the track ends, you will find where the continuation of the track resumes.
I hope so. I will check that out. I was told the section was pulled up already. 😞
It's in the process of being removed. Lots of good info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Mountain_Railroad
aweseome! Great to see the bridge still standing
At 2:25 - looks like taconite pellets. It's a pelletized form of iron ore. This form is easy to ship for further refinement elsewhere. It's cheap ballast for the tracks, if there's a mine nearby. If not, it may be that some was spilled here, and they didn't bother to load it back on the car.
If you get back there, see if it's attracted to a magnet to confirm this is really what it is.
Wow! Thanks for the info. We were wondering what the hell that stuff was. The tracks did go all the way to a iron mine. Next time I'm up there I'll bring a magnet.
Used in the production of cement..its called "Klinker".
More fun than a barrel of monkeys for sure!
Why are railroads so cool? And why are these things even cooler?
But they are.
That is so Kool. Thank you for sharing your video with us!!
Love these explorations.. Keep it up
The title had me thinking Eagle Mountain in Utah. Regardless, this looks fun and is something I'd like to do some day, I found this line and as far as I can tell it terminates at what appears to be some mining operation (maybe 40-ish miles of track). The track seems to be severed in a few spots, but it looks like there's some lengthy runs that you could check out. Anyway, thanks for the upload. On a side note, I've wondered what kind of trouble one would be in if someone called this in.
Thanks for the comment, Probably not too much trouble. The line has been abandoned for for some time now.
Interesting trip!
Pretty cool rig you guys got there
Wow, that looked like so much fun! I bet having to roll it over that crossing wasn't though lol!
Looks like great fun, especially with a friend.. I want to do that.
That was a resort area in the 1950s! They diverted the river that fed the lake! Irrigation took most of the water!
The Colorado River did divert to form the Salton Sea but not by design; it was from a flood.
Que hermoso viaje, no puedo creer que dejaron esas hermosas vía abandonadas, es increíble, les felicito por hacer ese gran viajes para el recuerdo, aca tambien los gobiernos han dejado muchas via abandonadas, en una pena tremenda y se han llevado todo el dinero. Saludos desde Chila Luis Felicidades por el viaje.
Si asi es acá en Argentina las vías están abandonadas
this is the coolest ever! U make this motor car???? amazing!
The sequel to "The Railrodder".
Nice day out.
It's my dream to ride on this rail road just like these guys but there 😭 is no railroad in my country
Pardon me Boy is that The Salton Sea Choo Choo? Track 29 oh won’t you give me a shine?
The tracks should still go all the way to the Eagle Mountain Mine. Periodically Los Angeles County makes noises about reopening the line to the mine to dump trash in it. They decide not to for environmental reasons, then 10 years or so later, refloat the idea. I seem to recall at least 3 attempts since the mine shut down. 😮
Need reverse of a high rail kit with go cart or lawn mower wheels and tires. Pivot the rear rubber tired drive on pillow block bearings so a chain from the rail wheel drive axle always spins the rubber tire axle. A single lever somewhere below the drivers knee centerline on a shaft to both sides could easily lower or raise bot rubber tire axles. No steering on either.
New rail wheels. Wide flat areas. With a bolt on wheel flanges so if the gauge widens you dont drop in. Nothing going to stop you when a rail is past the end of a tie. Hopefully there is a pipe mounted on the deck for a 8 foot patio umbrella to be mounted after removal and reconnecting the lower tube. A battery powered hedge trimmer.
Wow. That's way too technical for my small brain. Thanks though. I'll look into it
Those round rocks are called Taconite. All over the railroads near me since they mine iron here.
Wow. Thanks. Good to know.
Uh!!! -- Those "Weird Round Rock" (looking like gravel stuff) Is "Pelletized" Iron Ore... Rounded-shaped melts better in the smelter furnace -- prevents bunching and clogging together -- the smelter is called a "Blast Furnace".
So cool.Thanks for the info!
4:40. That's not the California Aqueduct. It's the Coachella Canal that transports Colorado River water from the All American Canal northward to the Coachella Valley.
Yah, I thought it was kinda small. Thanks for the correct info. 👍🏻
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while!
I thought the whole track is disassembled. Turns out part of the track still exists! Good to kno0w! Some day I will have enough time to make my speedster too, to have a ride there!
BTW there is an abandoned railroad track going from Hemet to Temecula. It has its track cut ad bent in several places going towards Temecula, so it is absolutely safe to ride it - there will e no trains there.
What's this Hemet Temecula line called?
Oh sweet! Thanks. I will have to check that out.
Looks like a ball!
Nice video and the idea..👌👌👌👌
Thank you!
looks just like in red dead redemption 2! nice vid!
Just two naked rails, nothing under to support, how or what did you feel while crossing ? Certainly a lot better activity than jungle safaris.
If you had not panned over to your right, I could have counted the rails to tell you how long the bridge was. From what I could see at the beginning of the bridge, it is about 14 rails long or 546 feet (approximately).
Thats amazing. Thanks!
I would like to build a cart for railway with a small motor and sail also for highways
Beautiful location
Some assholes vandalized the tracks where they were wide. Looks like they stole some spikes and spread the tracks. Watched a few guys go all the way to the end of the rail recovery area a few months earlier and that never happened. Vandals suck. This should have been bought by the government and made into a hike and bike trail with pedal / electric bikes that ride the rails.
Yah. Not sure how the tracks got that way. It was for about 15ft if track before it returned to normal width. My buddy jumped and ran it out. I went sliding on my butt down the middle. I was sore, but good times though. 🤙🏻
no head or eye protection? seatbelt? pretty country though. enjoy yourselves.
Nice ride. You make your cart. We're do u get parts . I would love to do that
The cart was made by myself. I just bought a welder and winged it. My first run had fixed wheels. I later changed to a spring loaded backing plates on the wheels using car valve springs.
I played this on 1.75 speed .. looked like a blast.
3:03 Well obviously someone is looking after that bridge...
excellent work, could you tell me what and how are the wheels made?
From what I can tell- they used rubberized caster wheel, but they added the round steel plate on bolts. Pretty good idea, I should adopt that for my speedster wheeels, but perhaps with bigger diameter available.
@@digimaks That is correct. Just some rubberized caster wheels with spring loaded plates on the back to compensate with changing track width. These tracks are pretty old.
I love this from Pakistan
You definitely stand a pretty good chance of being skinned up, or worse, if it derails!
Have to be quick on your feet!
fantastic
THANK FROM LIBERTY KY
And the Original purpose of the tracks were ?
I believe it was for an open quarry mine for iron ore. The mine closed down years ago. Eagle Mountain mine. It is a modern day ghost town now. Kinda cool. Google it.
rails end at I -10 for sure
the walk back if it breaks down...
Have been a few other tracks about a dozen times. No walk yet. : ) Knock on wood.
@@TheCatsa just sayin'
Engine size on your cart? Like a dirt bike adventure but you don't have to keep an eye where you're going.
It's an Honda 5hp. It's plenty of power. I've hade 4 adults on that thing! 😂
I heard that all those rails are gone now too. Pulled somtime in the latter part of 2021. Please confirm.
Based on the views i hope there’s more videos of this coming
I do have another video in the works. It's at Carrizo Gorge with tunnels and bridges. hopefully my video editing skills improve. 😂
@@TheCatsa it's fine haha, kinda enjoy these kinds of videos. Without much editing :)
Nice
Wide gauge on the bridge or trestle could be...interesting.
Yep. That's a good place to put your beer down.😁
@@TheCatsa 🤪🤪🤪🤪
I wonder if these abandoned lines can be used for a bullet train. Repurposed of course
Nope.
More like a new railroad called (Eagle Mountain Scenic Railroad) that has really all Southern Pacific Locomotives ➕ SP 4-8-4 #4449 SP 4-8-4 #4460 & all the rest Southern Pacific diesel locomotives
Those are iron ore pellets (taconite pellets), not stones.
Está desativada essa ferrovia?
I like your wheels! How did you make them ?
They are cast iron with rubber coating. I used some steel discs with springs to compensate for the track gauge fluctuation. Thanks for noticing!
@@TheCatsa that's a great idea! Do you have any pictures or close ups of the set up ?
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow!
If you want to avoid wider track sections make one side of your cart with a spring loaded telescopic extender attached to the wheels so it can get wider or smaller at any point
love from Pakistan...🤗
Hope you don’t walk into a No Country For Old Men situation
yeah, it looks like Slipknots Berry Farm now.
👏👏👏🇦🇷🇦🇷 from Argentina👍
Where did you get the plans to build your speeder, looks cool
I just built it from scratch. Design as you go kinda guy. 😃
You don't need to worry about safety
Why start now?! 😂
any abandon rail lines in oklahoma to ride ?
Can you send plans on how to build one?
Where did the actual trains go, or are these abandoned tracks?
No trains for sure. 😃
Gotta have them cell phones cant go no were with out them cell phones
Fo Sho! 🤙🏻
its a motorized park bench on wheels lol
When was this video taken? That RR track was removed a few years ago.
Just a couple months ago.
Been gone north of i-10 for several years now
Quanto ti è costato a fare sta cosa
harika
Club should be formed and allowed to maintain and improve rail line. Instead they just tear it up. So backasswards.
You are correct. The people that want to pull up the tracks are just money hungry and have no appreciation for history and other peoples interests. 😕
I'd be soilin myself. 😳
3:58
How many miles was it?
About 8 miles each way.
Those tracks no longer exist.. they ripped them out last year…
Sad deal. 😔
Which country?
United States
Helmets?
Would be a good idea. 😉
great fun, I have a 3person one for sale if you know anyone?
I’m interested! I’m in lake Elsinore
Be safe from 😂 "wolf creek"
Fart can
You guys totally effed this up. No background as to what that building was, no shots of what you were riding, what its original purpose was, etc.. Epic fail.
That's awesome! Thanks! 😂 We never disappoint. 💪🏻
Those are iron ore pellets (taconite pellets), not stones.