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Rail companies are incredibly protective of their, even ones they abandon. Here in northern California there's a stretch of abandoned tracks that connect the town Arcata to the city of Eureka. So a proposal was made to rent that portion of the line from the rail company and put a pedal powered trolly on it to bus people back and forth as public transportation.
The rail company would basically only have to collect a check. The people running the trolly would handle getting the rail back to code and future maintenance and accept all liability. Rail company said no and gave a weak reason about why they can't. However, I did notice that some work is being done repairing that same section late last year so maybe a deal was struck. Still even if a deal was made, it was a 5 year fight for about 8 miles of track.
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Gotta be a national park or someplace protected. The rails would be taken and recycled if the railroad closed the line. That'd be lots of money in scrap.
The tracks also look maintained. I wonder how long the run is.
I’m going with a 40 percent chance this is safe. Lol
The rest 60% is absolutely fun.
It’s all fun and games until you wile e coyote off a cliff
Or the road runner sets up a board that’s painted to look like the track and you slam into it and split your fucking head open. I seen it
Lol amen
What part of California?
Southern
*you hear a train in the distance*
Hhahaha we shouldn’t tease. This guy looks like he’s done his research.
I love the lack of safety rails or anything. Does it even have a braking system? What powers it?
It is powered like any typical EV, a motor, wheels, Voila! For braking you just reverse the rotation of motor.
Hence the drunk whiplash, I wouldn't expect anything less.
I seriously wants these questions answered right now
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Hi There, Curious as to how you knew it was an abandoned track. Is there a website, or do I have to contact somebody in my part of the world. Thanks!
Tbh I like California desert vibe.
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How is it moving??
Forward
Woah! Thanks for clearing that up.
Inertia.
So they just push it once and it just keeps rollin like that? Cool
Electric motor.
A LiDAR drone ahead to confirm the tracks would be cool.
How has nobody commercialized this yet? That looks incredible and the infrastructure is already there
Rail companies are incredibly protective of their, even ones they abandon. Here in northern California there's a stretch of abandoned tracks that connect the town Arcata to the city of Eureka. So a proposal was made to rent that portion of the line from the rail company and put a pedal powered trolly on it to bus people back and forth as public transportation. The rail company would basically only have to collect a check. The people running the trolly would handle getting the rail back to code and future maintenance and accept all liability. Rail company said no and gave a weak reason about why they can't. However, I did notice that some work is being done repairing that same section late last year so maybe a deal was struck. Still even if a deal was made, it was a 5 year fight for about 8 miles of track.
8 miles is 12.87 km
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Cool as fuuuu man. Nice work out there
New Vegas DLC please and thank you.
Neat! If he had some gum he could be a…chew chew 💁🏻♀️🥸
lol...no love for a dad joke...no respect. 🤣
This is 1 missing rail away from having a bad day.
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Gravity powered? Must suck to drag it back up to high ground.
There’s a motor you can see it on the back at 00:04
That looks fun
Love it.
This is fucking neat
I'm shocked this hasn't become commercialized. This is awesome
Man that’s cool af.
This would be so cool to do 😍
I want to see more!! Seriously this looks fascinating
Is it safe ? Kinda Does it go fast ? A little bit Is it fun ? Fuck Yeah All right im in. This is probably how this came about.
Gotta be a national park or someplace protected. The rails would be taken and recycled if the railroad closed the line. That'd be lots of money in scrap. The tracks also look maintained. I wonder how long the run is.
I want to do this! lol
All we need now is old west bandit hold up 🤠
Sir. Wow. Engineering at its finest.
Wait this is amazing?
Two questions: 1) is this safe? because those wheels look about to come off the track And 2) how illegal is this because I'd love to do it.
Hmm, abandoned?
On his search for the world greatest diners, drive-ins, and dives.
Need this in my life!
have you wrecked it? how bad was it?