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@johnm.lashmit8855 15 сағат бұрын
Wow, that was pretty cool. Love the old rail grades.
@burlbark 3 күн бұрын
I hopped this freight several time 1989-91 and rode from Willits to Ferndale. Got caught on an open flat car one winter and almost froze to death 10 hours exposed to the elements with sections of track floating over the rail bed that was washed out.
@witosarlaw 5 күн бұрын
mantap bang ,, sangat unik keandaraanya
@Truerealism747 6 күн бұрын
How far did you travel
@tomproctor.archive 6 күн бұрын
16 miles, but not all of it was documented. There's more in the description.
@82delta 7 күн бұрын
...filmed on an ipotato 3 in 64p...
@tomproctor.archive 7 күн бұрын
@@82delta ha ha! No a MiniDV camera, then it was transferred analog because the digital file couldn’t be used. It shows how far we’ve come in video technology in the last 15 years.
@brockryan3405 9 күн бұрын
I suspect that the video was a VHS-C camcorder and he upgraded to Hi-8 halfway through this video. So glad he converted them for us.
@tomproctor.archive 8 күн бұрын
Mini-DV. For some reason I was unable to transfer the recording digitally, so I ended up doing an analog transfer from a screen. I hope to revisit this sometime to get a better quality video YouTub, but wouldn't monetize it because they said I didn't add enough value and just posted raw video. (through fancy editing, narration, etc I guess there is a high level of expectation).
@brockryan3405 9 күн бұрын
“DO NOT tell mom what we did.”😅. But daughter will not be on the pole at 18 years of age thanks to her dad being in her life. This video is that same age so someone check in!
@gshalabama 10 күн бұрын
That was Great 👍 Thanks for the adventure ride.
@petrahartwig6685 10 күн бұрын
Fantastic concert thanks so much dear Willie and Micah love you for that ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@BulletsandCrypto 10 күн бұрын
Absolutely love this rig! I wish you had a video posted of the build...looks amazing.
@johnnycee5179 13 күн бұрын
If your not a train then that is the best way to ride the rails
@RetroAnachronist 13 күн бұрын
Filmed this with a potato. Sheesh.
@tomproctor.archive 13 күн бұрын
Lol, yeah it was a decent camera but I had to transfer the tape in analog due to limitations of the original format. We're spoiled w today's iPhone.
@MarkCrawford-bj9uj 14 күн бұрын
U definately need some shock absorption on that front wheel contraption.
@tinaann3323 14 күн бұрын
Sorry but that camera and sound really sucks
@tomproctor.archive 14 күн бұрын
Yeah, I had to make a copy of the video in an indirect transfer (iPhone 15 Pro to a screen) because of problems transferring it digitally. I hope to get it right sometime. Apparently people like the content.
@kpadalldotablet1009 15 күн бұрын
Official Name: The Death Mobile
@wampuscat1831 16 күн бұрын
I was on one of the last trains to run it in thr winter of 1983 out of LA to Chicago. I was in a sleeper car . Outside was about 30 below zero ,full moon at night Moose ,elk eagles all still from the cold Much of the that portion of the trip was 20 mph or less.We had a lay over at small town .Id loved to explore but didnt want to miss my train.I held my sleepy eyes open until through tunnel was huge and full of zigzags then woke the train running full tilt on the flat lands
@62heliman 16 күн бұрын
awesome filming. looks fun I would have even rode along.
@薄井良治-i8l 16 күн бұрын
This is Frank's best live performance ever recorded.
@tomproctor.archive 16 күн бұрын
If not the best, certainly among them.
@jamesbuck6623 17 күн бұрын
In 81-82 we rode dirt bikes Thur 10-20 miles from aderpoint south Kool shit lol
@chrisdaniel1339 17 күн бұрын
What a fantastic, yet simple design for the rail follower wheels.
@DAVIDALANJONESRIDGE 19 күн бұрын
In some areas old rail beds are being turned into bike trails. And technically the is trespassing.
@rustysphotography 20 күн бұрын
Why don't we all get dads who do cool things like this
@CuzznRickH14 20 күн бұрын
This is a great video that I have watched a couple of times before. It really would be nice to redo the ride with the new video equipment with fuzzy logic and HD. I don't know if it's possible but if so it would surely be worth the while. Thanks for sharing.
@johnnyhalf6558 22 күн бұрын
That was a nice rugged ride. Thanks ! Looks Squatchy " ?
@Howoldareweanywayyipes 23 күн бұрын
wow, scary... you can't go backwards because you don't have the back rail wheels.
@glennspace1091 23 күн бұрын
Looking at all the fur trees you ran into and over, you might be the last vehicle to ever ride that track!
@tomproctor.archive 23 күн бұрын
@@glennspace1091 we were for sure, those trees took over.
@rayburton4263 25 күн бұрын
Looks like you need a bush hog attachment.
@FranksPlace-jk7pj 27 күн бұрын
I remember travelling through that area with my family as a kid in the 70's, swimming in the Eel River and spending the night in a nice motel in Willits.
@redrussian76 Ай бұрын
A flat-spotted guide roller must give it that steam locomotive "chug, chug, chug" sound, huh?
@GuitarNewby Ай бұрын
Watching this makes me want to clean that rail line up 🤨🤪.
@tomproctor.archive 29 күн бұрын
@@GuitarNewby it’s beyond repair now. Even at the time this was filmed back in 2007. It was marginal. Now, all the trees have grown up and there’s no way to pass any of the line.
@sequoiasemperviren3163 Ай бұрын
The State of California should had purchased in fee easements across all private properties and converted the NWPRR into an ecogroovy bike path from Eureka to Willits. Turn maintenance over to Caltrans. Turn the patrol and care of primitive bikepacking camps over to the State Parks. It could be a fantastic bikepath.
@tomproctor.archive Ай бұрын
thegreatredwoodtrail.org/
@sequoiasemperviren3163 Ай бұрын
Yes. I am familiar with the Great Redwood Trsil governmental organization. I attended their inaugural meeting. The director was a bureaucrat in the County of Humboldt Heakth & Human Services Department. They need someone in the Director role eho is knowledgeable about creating such trails and the necessary acquisitions of easements and construction. Like a professional civil engineer. But what do I know? I’m a registered professional engineer. Go figure.
@sequoiasemperviren3163 Ай бұрын
I would just like to add ever since the track washed out in the winter of 1997/1998, I constantly communicated to our member of Congress and our State Senator and State Assemblymembet, multiple people over the years, to covert tge railroad into a bike trail. 27 years later and still nothing.
@tomproctor.archive Ай бұрын
@@sequoiasemperviren3163 I agree it’s the same. They haven’t done anything with that super valuable path. It would become a legendary hiking trail if they ever made it probably draw a fair of tourism around it.
@sequoiasemperviren3163 Ай бұрын
@@tomproctor.archive I wish our North Coast elected representatives were more pro-active. I would have put Jennifer Rice on the job. She was the Rails to Trails guru at the Redwood Community Action Agency.
@BODEGA1940 Ай бұрын
Where did you start and where did you end. How many miles?
@frisk151 Ай бұрын
What a trek! You could have used a cow catcher thou ;)
@tomproctor.archive Ай бұрын
No cows to catch! Te brush became too hard to control real fast, but I like the creative thinking.
@DirtyDanMunicipalMan Ай бұрын
Huh, today I learned a Geo Tracker is a great rail cart. I’m tempted.
@JasperAsher-lv1yg Ай бұрын
If I have lots of money, I would buy me a H2 Hummer vehicle and put some wheels like a train that you can either put it up or down so I can still use it on the road and back to the train tracks again. Also make a custom made trailer at the back to haul it and put all my food and water and some camping gears and tools and emergency kit to survive. Weapons too just in case there's some wild animals around. I love this video. Thank you for showing this.
@dave20404 Ай бұрын
I have watched a lot of these abandoned rail videos and this one beats them all, even the ones with those small rail repair speedster vehicles. They would not make it through all those trees. You have cracked the code with the Suzuki Samurai.
@petermersch9059 Ай бұрын
I was surprised that no bear came by to say hello.
@NsixVHF Ай бұрын
That track at 20:37 had me holding on for dear life. LOL Yikes.
@n8nawesome Ай бұрын
I could make this into an amusment park ride lol
@MrMarshall7491 Ай бұрын
It scared me butnim an old fart 77 years old. Come run the line here in Hemet. My great-grandfather financed the line many years ago.
@tehrihumbert876 Ай бұрын
Wonderful !!!!!!!! THX+++++ !!!!!!! 😉👍
@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Ай бұрын
Who else spotted the Sasquatch lying in the shade at 19:00?
@petedriftmeyer3867 Ай бұрын
Amen to that !
@martymackeever4160 Ай бұрын
Have you ever thought about welding a very sharp blade at the front to cut down the trees as you travel? It could make it easier on your next pass.
@Raptor306090 Ай бұрын
Just driving through that super over groth was heartpounding.
@daylcday8459 Ай бұрын
You have a little kid riding with you and you don't have side doors I hope you have seat belts most likely you do
@robertcook9907 Ай бұрын
Recycling all that steel small fortune
@tomproctor.archive Ай бұрын
Yes. So much it's hard to comprehend. They should have already done that, knowing the rails wouldn't be used again. Now it will take deforestation to get the tracks.
@KristijanSremec Ай бұрын
What was this filmed with? A Nokia 3310? 🙄
@tomproctor.archive Ай бұрын
@@KristijanSremec a Mini-DV video cam. The tape couldn’t be transferred digitally so it was a film of s film. It’s all we had.
@lourenco3216 Ай бұрын
So cool! Would love to have visited while it was "ridable". Watching this makes me happy that my day also shared his passions with me :)
@kugangles9860 Ай бұрын
Those Suzuki's where tough little Jeeps. Affordable too. I wish they still sold them here in the US.