I think back when I was a pre teenager in the early 60’s on what we could create with what we had ! Today I see the wheels are still turning with ideas ! 😂👍
Maybe the best build sequence you've edited together yet! Looks good! Though I have to say I am a little skeptical of a drivetrain that relies on power delivered via ziptie...
Just came across this channel a couple days ago, but the ingenuity that you express into your creations and inventions is unbeatable. Amazing content and definitely an underrated creator. Well done man! Some of the things you make, I wish I could make.
I said it before and I will say it again, you should have a lot more viewers and subscribers. A lot more! Thumbs up and look forward to seeing the finished rail cart.
This is a dream project for me. i have to railroads with (commercial) railbiking (you hire a bike simply) pretty close, but the bikes weighs a megaton but runs smoothly but uphill ....🥵🥵🥵 I have also found an abandoned track that runs for maybe 60-80 miles 🥳 but I need a railbike, but have no workshop. These videos gives a hint what can be easily done. Thanks fir sharing your (🤪) ideas!
Another fine concept. Who needs a motor? Just hang onto the last car of a train until you get where you are going. I know it is illegal, dangerous and you will probably die if you do it but, what a way to go! LOL This is too much fun.
I did this as a 11 year old kid my parents owned a asphalt circle track for years while we was stationed in cannada and there was tons and tons and tons of cars in the back behind the track from all the demo derbies. Well we would be there at the track with mom and dad all week after school working and every sat and Sunday at 1 pm racing starts. Well I had access to huge stick and mig welding machines tons and tons of scrap parts and frames off old cars and plasma cutter and torch I literally built a rail road track go cart I cut up steel rims.made.them just wide enough to attach and lock on to train track rails and when it was all done thanks to dad helping me with figuring out where and how to mount a go.lart motor to it it was done in a few weekends and it had 4 seats on it from a cutlass.supreme and cutlass.rear bumpers welded on and front ones as well. Somwe would ride the rail road go kart I built for three miles to get to our deer hunting blinds on our property with out that I made we would have never had such a great hunting spot cuse it was so thick and tons of snow and brush you can't even walk into there and the go kart rail road car was big enough to carry our guns water bottles and the trailer for it would carry the blinds at begging of deer season and the trailer was perfect for bringing the deer back out as well and.nice thing is deer don't get your scent off your tracks in snow cuse you only ride in on the rail tracks and we shot some amazing bucks there.
I honestly have no idea which bike wheels are what, these just came off some small bikes I found on a neighborhood junk day. May have been child-size vs those stunt bike things.
@@saveitforparts Those are 20'" inch, "child" size is 16" or less! That is the "rulez" of bycycles! 🤣 And, no they are not from the Evel Knievel stunt bike! 🤣 Two, "things" you need BRAKES, and reverse! 🤣
I'm planning my own rail cart. I was going to use some 5 inch caster wheels to ride on, and keep it on the track by mounting skateboard wheels horizontally inside the rails. This will keep it on the track like how a roller coaster works. I think I'll power it with a moped engine I found in the scrap yard.
Sounds fun! Keep in mind how it will handle switches, street crossings, track connector plates, etc. All my designs have had issues with some of those things so far!
If your design is lightweight, sometimes the easiest approach is to just pick it up and carry it over crossings and stuck switches. A lot of abandoned crossings are packed full of dirt or paved over. I've seen spring-loaded guide wheels that can be moved out of the way when needed, but they add complexity and failure points.
You Sir are a man after my own heart! A master tinker(er)! I found another one of your Rail videos by accident. It's cool you are a Minnesota guy too! I'm collecting parts for a Rail Cart too! I'd love to pick your mind on places to ride. Great video! Looking forward to watching your others! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! I've got through several versions of these rail carts. I actually have some better train wheels sitting in the garage waiting for spare time to rebuild it again!
Those zips ties should have been black for UV resistance. If the lid gaskets rub the rail side tear them out. You have to much runout for any speed. Looks like enough fun to spring for store bought wheels.
Hey my man i love your channel! I've found 5 other channels like yours before and now they all have over 1 million subscribers, i belive you are the next one, just keep up the good work and more sandland digging plz 😊
If you're considering hybrid, an electric motor with gas engine that charges the battery would be cool. Could always make a solar panel sun shade in the future too.
There are only so many songs on TH-cam's free library, so I know they get re-used a lot! I've noticed Peter Sripol and I have the same taste in background music 😁
How are you going to solve the issue of traction on the wheels when you add a motor? I might suggest keeping the air in those BMX tires and having the rubber be the friction surface with the rail. That will also make the ride smoother.
Are you in the St.Paul area? I thought I noticed the Schmidt brewery in the rail road tracks video. I used to work and a railyard station right there many moons ago. Good video 👍🏻
seems like that wobbling is going to become an issue at higher speeds... I might put a double flange on one side then just use a regular rubber bike tire on the other side, lock the steering wheel in place and make it so the distance between the two sides is slightly adjustable.
I've never liked the double-flange or triple-caster thingies that railbikes seem to have. They won't go through switches or level crossings properly (although on abandoned tracks it will be hit or miss if those are full of dirt anyway). In a future video I'll be widening the wheels and seeing how that does.
If you would just get a small harbor freight 8 hp motor and attach it on with a chain and sprocket and drive a love axle you will have a pretty fast go kart for rails mine I told you about below I built had a Briggs and Stratton 10.5 horsepower fun power motor off my pepboys single bench seat go kart that got a faster motor and my rail road cart went 32 mph wide open and that was sketchy as hell and reason we know estimated speed is running it on tracks somewhere else where we raced my dad's 4 wheeler against it and got the mph it would go very close atleast with out radar gun and no cell phone fps back in 2003
I don't normally sell my projects, they're pretty much all prototypes! I think this particular one has been mostly torn apart and re-used for other things now :-)
Maybe there's a historic tour railroad or dinner train or something near you? or even a small railroad museum or private collector. I'm always surprised how many places have something like that.
That really was a waist of time, you want Real RR wheels!!! Take exercise weights like a two round 5 pound and a bigger 10 pound weld them together and wala!!! O!! Is many stiles the flat edge weels are better, you cud weld them to the exercise pole to!!!good luck from Puerto Rico ☀️🏖️🇵🇷💦🖌️ Smart in Puerto Rico!
*_Aren't you afraid of being hit by a real train??!!_* {Apparently LOTS OF OTHER PEOPLE ask that SAME RIDICULOUS QUESTION, so I figured I would as well...😉🤭}
A train can come out of nowhere at any time, in any situation. With rusty rails, overgrown rails, or even no rails at all, the deadly train stalks its victims. Sometimes people go to bed, they think everything is fine, then they wake up and there's a train in the room!
You are still trespassing. Despite being abandoned the railways are still owned by the rail companies. You probably won't be arrested as they don't have guards around, but you are trespassing.
That's hilarious. The aerodynamic "speed holes" in the wheels should increase the performance a lot. Looking forward to watching Part 2.
I think back when I was a pre teenager in the early 60’s on what we could create with what we had !
Today I see the wheels are still turning with ideas ! 😂👍
I’m glad I found this. Many of my favorite things… found items, scrap, abandon tracks and imagination. Thanks for sharing!
Much love! Got me brainstorming much...
Love the DJ Freak clip!
Great camera angles. Keeps it fun and interesting. Nice work.
Love it! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🌟⭐⭐🤩🤩
Nice job on the cutting it looks very good nice😊😊😊
4:02 LOL. This is ingenious, bro. I will be doing the same!
Maybe the best build sequence you've edited together yet! Looks good! Though I have to say I am a little skeptical of a drivetrain that relies on power delivered via ziptie...
'General Hoarding Purposes' - I love it that the act of hoarding is justification in itself. :)
Now that I make a couple $ from TH-cam I can call it Professional Hoarding!
@@saveitforparts Found your channel last night - and I've been binging. So good - well done, and thank you!
Just came across this channel a couple days ago, but the ingenuity that you express into your creations and inventions is unbeatable. Amazing content and definitely an underrated creator. Well done man! Some of the things you make, I wish I could make.
I said it before and I will say it again, you should have a lot more viewers and subscribers.
A lot more! Thumbs up and look forward to seeing the finished rail cart.
Dig the ideas man!
rail surfing seems fun. also imagine putting a tent on it and sorta just traveling
That's a pretty good-looking skateboard you've got there ❤
This is a dream project for me. i have to railroads with (commercial) railbiking (you hire a bike simply) pretty close, but the bikes weighs a megaton but runs smoothly but uphill ....🥵🥵🥵
I have also found an abandoned track that runs for maybe 60-80 miles 🥳 but I need a railbike, but have no workshop.
These videos gives a hint what can be easily done. Thanks fir sharing your (🤪) ideas!
The version in this video didn't work quite as well, I made another one that's electric powered with rubber wheels, it works a little better!
I have always wanted to make one of these!
you are having way too much fun!!
Who would 'thumbs down' this?! Quality content.
At about 04:02 in this video:
Considering the intended use for those wheels, that gives a new meaning to the term *_"Disc JOCKEY."_* 😊
Use LEAF BLOWER as propulsion!
I would also suggets making a sail, and try a sail railcart on windy day!
I have a sail train video that's newer than this! It didn't work all that well, sadly! Now I'm working on a retro pump car.
Pure entertainment, love this
I subbed aimply for the dj moves. Thanks for the unexpected laughs mate
Good stuff
Another fine concept. Who needs a motor? Just hang onto the last car of a train until you get where you are going. I know it is illegal, dangerous and you will probably die if you do it but, what a way to go! LOL
This is too much fun.
Oh shit. He built a trash train too!
I did this as a 11 year old kid my parents owned a asphalt circle track for years while we was stationed in cannada and there was tons and tons and tons of cars in the back behind the track from all the demo derbies. Well we would be there at the track with mom and dad all week after school working and every sat and Sunday at 1 pm racing starts. Well I had access to huge stick and mig welding machines tons and tons of scrap parts and frames off old cars and plasma cutter and torch I literally built a rail road track go cart I cut up steel rims.made.them just wide enough to attach and lock on to train track rails and when it was all done thanks to dad helping me with figuring out where and how to mount a go.lart motor to it it was done in a few weekends and it had 4 seats on it from a cutlass.supreme and cutlass.rear bumpers welded on and front ones as well. Somwe would ride the rail road go kart I built for three miles to get to our deer hunting blinds on our property with out that I made we would have never had such a great hunting spot cuse it was so thick and tons of snow and brush you can't even walk into there and the go kart rail road car was big enough to carry our guns water bottles and the trailer for it would carry the blinds at begging of deer season and the trailer was perfect for bringing the deer back out as well and.nice thing is deer don't get your scent off your tracks in snow cuse you only ride in on the rail tracks and we shot some amazing bucks there.
Ok, "BMX" rims are "full" size at 20"! Don't be railroadin us with no smoke! 🤣
The railcycle is AWEsome! 👍
I honestly have no idea which bike wheels are what, these just came off some small bikes I found on a neighborhood junk day. May have been child-size vs those stunt bike things.
@@saveitforparts Those are 20'" inch, "child" size is 16" or less! That is the "rulez" of bycycles! 🤣
And, no they are not from the Evel Knievel stunt bike! 🤣
Two, "things" you need BRAKES, and reverse! 🤣
I'm planning my own rail cart. I was going to use some 5 inch caster wheels to ride on, and keep it on the track by mounting skateboard wheels horizontally inside the rails. This will keep it on the track like how a roller coaster works. I think I'll power it with a moped engine I found in the scrap yard.
Sounds fun! Keep in mind how it will handle switches, street crossings, track connector plates, etc. All my designs have had issues with some of those things so far!
@@saveitforparts dang, you're right. I never thought about street crossings. Back to the drawing board.
If your design is lightweight, sometimes the easiest approach is to just pick it up and carry it over crossings and stuck switches. A lot of abandoned crossings are packed full of dirt or paved over. I've seen spring-loaded guide wheels that can be moved out of the way when needed, but they add complexity and failure points.
You Sir are a man after my own heart! A master tinker(er)! I found another one of your Rail videos by accident. It's cool you are a Minnesota guy too! I'm collecting parts for a Rail Cart too! I'd love to pick your mind on places to ride. Great video! Looking forward to watching your others! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! I've got through several versions of these rail carts. I actually have some better train wheels sitting in the garage waiting for spare time to rebuild it again!
@@saveitforparts I can't wait to see the next one! You've got me hooked!
Reclaim that trackmobile!
Apparently it still gets used on rare occasions, just lives on about 100 yards of landlocked track that doesn't go anywhere.
Those zips ties should have been black for UV resistance. If the lid gaskets rub the rail side tear them out. You have to much runout for any speed. Looks like enough fun to spring for store bought wheels.
I have some hi-rail wheels now, just need to mount them on something.
Love this stuff👍
Hey my man i love your channel! I've found 5 other channels like yours before and now they all have over 1 million subscribers, i belive you are the next one, just keep up the good work and more sandland digging plz 😊
This is like actually great
Thanks for sharing! This is some good content
Good video
If you're considering hybrid, an electric motor with gas engine that charges the battery would be cool. Could always make a solar panel sun shade in the future too.
That's kind of what I'm thinking. I have an old generator with a bad inverter so it only puts out 12v DC, should work great to charge a battery.
7:44 Row row row your train!!
Everybody gangsta until real train comes
On my local railroad there is a train that hauls trash to a power plant and I call it the trash train
Nice .👍👍👍
@2:52 the song Brass Orchid by Bobby Richards starts. That is funny because I know that track as No Insult No hate speech by Deviana Sharon S. Weird.
There are only so many songs on TH-cam's free library, so I know they get re-used a lot! I've noticed Peter Sripol and I have the same taste in background music 😁
Challenge : make a life sized locomotive
I already have a life-size monorail, just need to build some track for it :-D
How are you going to solve the issue of traction on the wheels when you add a motor? I might suggest keeping the air in those BMX tires and having the rubber be the friction surface with the rail. That will also make the ride smoother.
Will see how this goes, I'm actually a little ahead with the project since I finished this, but it's been too cold this week to test the next version.
@@saveitforparts It is so cold here that if one tried to run that around here today I think the plastic wheels would shatter😂
Cool!
Are you in the St.Paul area? I thought I noticed the Schmidt brewery in the rail road tracks video.
I used to work and a railyard station right there many moons ago.
Good video 👍🏻
wow1 brilliant creative idea bro. Hey without using the bicycle wheels , will it be able to bear the weight of one human?
The blue plastic wheels will fatigue and fail around the hub
They eventually did, I've moved on to slightly better (but still not perfect) wheels.
seems like that wobbling is going to become an issue at higher speeds... I might put a double flange on one side then just use a regular rubber bike tire on the other side, lock the steering wheel in place and make it so the distance between the two sides is slightly adjustable.
I've never liked the double-flange or triple-caster thingies that railbikes seem to have. They won't go through switches or level crossings properly (although on abandoned tracks it will be hit or miss if those are full of dirt anyway). In a future video I'll be widening the wheels and seeing how that does.
Wait, did you use duct tape for the Rail car vehicle?
Duct tape and zip ties! This was an early prototype, I've built a couple better ones since then :-)
If you would just get a small harbor freight 8 hp motor and attach it on with a chain and sprocket and drive a love axle you will have a pretty fast go kart for rails mine I told you about below I built had a Briggs and Stratton 10.5 horsepower fun power motor off my pepboys single bench seat go kart that got a faster motor and my rail road cart went 32 mph wide open and that was sketchy as hell and reason we know estimated speed is running it on tracks somewhere else where we raced my dad's 4 wheeler against it and got the mph it would go very close atleast with out radar gun and no cell phone fps back in 2003
Good
Perfect!!!
Johnny on the spot
Or mcgiver 😉
Will That be for sale?
I don't normally sell my projects, they're pretty much all prototypes! I think this particular one has been mostly torn apart and re-used for other things now :-)
One Step Closer to making a steam engine.
Is the Kart alright after that tiny wreck?
I ended up rebuilding this into something slightly different, I have some newer videos of the present design.
@@saveitforparts o o h
Powered by what?
Oh
This version was bike-powered, I have a slightly newer one now that's electric.
this is pretty much just a train bogey/truck with gears and a seat.
im sad becose i love trains im 12 years old but there are no abandoned railroads so i can't do this :(
Maybe there's a historic tour railroad or dinner train or something near you? or even a small railroad museum or private collector. I'm always surprised how many places have something like that.
Finally
I love u
where are all of these abandonned railroads
That really was a waist of time, you want Real RR wheels!!! Take exercise weights like a two round 5 pound and a bigger 10 pound weld them together and wala!!! O!! Is many stiles the flat edge weels are better, you cud weld them to the exercise pole to!!!good luck from Puerto Rico ☀️🏖️🇵🇷💦🖌️ Smart in Puerto Rico!
How to make rail tracks
The "Way out west" channel has some videos on making homemade tracks!
*_Aren't you afraid of being hit by a real train??!!_*
{Apparently LOTS OF OTHER PEOPLE ask that SAME RIDICULOUS QUESTION, so I figured I would as well...😉🤭}
A train can come out of nowhere at any time, in any situation. With rusty rails, overgrown rails, or even no rails at all, the deadly train stalks its victims. Sometimes people go to bed, they think everything is fine, then they wake up and there's a train in the room!
@@saveitforparts >>> Welcome to the 2020s...
Mejor verlo sin música enfada.
You are still trespassing. Despite being abandoned the railways are still owned by the rail companies. You probably won't be arrested as they don't have guards around, but you are trespassing.
you are not a 100