I watch this video and it made me homesick cuz I'm from Arjay Kentucky and I went to Arjay Elementary and cranks School looks quite a bit like Arjay Elementary... I ain't been home in about 40 years I appreciate this video

I often had thoughts to hop the rails when I was younger. To feel somewhat free, have ambition, getting out and seeing parts of the lower 48 if not all, and meeting people that are super cool. I just hope Mr. Shoestring has his own train car in heaven and wished I could have met him. Sounds like a great guy to run with. Shoestring, show them the ropes and ride on.

Taking that ride on the westbound now shoestring.. rest in the Big Rock Candy mountains now..

Oh geez I had been gone from his channel for a while I was completely immersed he was like a Jack London and all those legends who rode the rails over 100 years ago there are no words I don't think I can bring myself to watch his last posted videos from four months ago 💔😢.

Appalachia is a place where the tough has always lived, we go through rough times but we will always pull through. Don't ever count us out. Born and raised Harlan County. The world has alot to say about us Appalachian people, but the people I know are loving, hard working, loyal people. We need prayer, we have some issues just like everywhere else, so please pray for the families those suffering that they find peace and healing.

❤AWESOME I STAYED In Hazard Friday & Saturday...Oh my Goodness EASTERN KY IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!! We had a Gathering at Pine Mountain Worship center in Whitesburgh...we Actually drove thru KINGDOM come State Park🎉❤😊WOW!!! & stopped & Took picture of an RC Sign (?) Can't remember city we were in😂...back in Daviess County & I I LOVE KENTUCKY!!!!

I’m forty five and I still call it the new rd but I grew up in putney and my parents called it that. I try to call it 119 now so my kids know what I’m talking about.

Got watching this video for the train then a question hit me.. Out in left field question but I heard it once so maybe somebody here knows. Supposedly.. somewhere in eastern Kentucky maybe in 80s or 90s a train was said to have hit a hovering "ufo" lol. Out there I know but I've heard that from many different places so any idea how that got started? Thx all. Good videos.. trains are interesting.

I went to school there too but when I went there the store was where the post office is now Mabel and Raymond day ran it

Thank you for showing us this interesting and important museum. I’m not sure you never know but probably never get there in person. Of course I’d like to 👍

I grew up there. Lived at Smith. But that was long before the Corp of Engineers put the damn in at Martins Fork and diverted the road. Watching this video was like going home - Millie Ledford Lee

Miss those hills😢 Think the Louellen school has been torn down😢 Thanks for sharing! Love it❤❤❤

Wow that has to be hard to lose your mother and both your brothers. Sounds like you had a great family life growing up

Hey Mr and Mrs coyote hope you are doing well ¡

Love the design of the hook you got.

luv all your videos !!!

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Well this is a interesting video … i just seen my vehicle go buy with my wife and some other dude in there with her .. now i gotta go whoop somebody !!!

She may know my step brother he is a Skidmore. His dad did ( i dont know about now) live right across the street from the school. My mom was a hicks that grew up at the end of cranks creek holler. She married my dad in 87 and moved to lee county va.

i'm from the east-central part of KY, lived in Clark county most of my life but i'm in Estill county in the mountains now :) i absolutely love Kentucky. fascinating history, people and culture, the land is absolutely gorgeous. Appalachia is just the best place. thanks for sharing, always great to see different parts of my home state :)

Years ago wasn’t the store called Day?

Always was told if you went outside with wet hair you would get newmona 😂

Don't walk under a Ladder go out the same door you came 😂

Did you guys get Sundrop (Golden Girl Cola)? I drank that in Winchester, Tenn. We also had RC (Royal Crown Cola), too.

Thank you for bringing back memories of my childhood. Those were the best times of my life.

My Grandma used to say" I'm hotter than a rat in a wool sock" and I can't say what my Grandpa always said but it involved a billy goat !!😂 Lord I sure do miss both of my Grandparents !!! Enjoyed Y'alls video as I always enjoy anything to do with the Appalachian people, Y'alls accents make me so homesick !! I'm from Johnson County !!

Fun seeing American Life !

My Uncle Doc used to say " Hotter than a two dollar pistol"....time capsules in schools are fairly common, usually under the sign out front .

Cool story and place Coyote's! Beautiful area! My cousin used to drive a RC truck out of Lexington Ky. 👍

I wouldn't want to be the one that has to do the cavity search on that character, no telling what you'd find.😳

At least he got to carry his bag to the car.☹️

Mountains Are Beautiful in my Home State of Kentucky.. have been Lucky to travel out West mountains Are Beautiful Also but Still Doesn't Compare to the Appalachian Mountains JMO...

Great to see history preserved.

Ur videos are really good I injoy the old history thank you

Nice video guys, Have a blessed week. JT

those pop machines if you tip them forward 30 degree angle reach up in there grab a can free just dont let it fall/get crushed

Man...we watched all his videos and I admired his free and easy soul. Googled him and just found out he passed. Rest in peace and thanks for taking me places I'll never see.

A couple months ago I ran road 192 from Laurel River lake to Somerset Kentucky it was absolutely breathtaking. ♥️

After being in flat Michigan for so long it so beautiful seeing the mountains of Kentucky. ❤

When you opened the video, I immediately recognized Bradley’s. Starting in 2005 our church youth would come down and help improve people’s houses as best we could. On our first trip down, we painted the house behind one seen at 9:54 timestamp. Behind the white one with the red shutters. We bunked at the Survival Center. We became hreat friends with the Simpsons. Becky Simpson was Bobby’s wife. Her maiden name was Day. Believe she had a twin brothrr named Hiram. Both Bobby and Becky have been called home but I stay in touch with their grandson Bobby Doyle Rowlett. Used to visit with his son Robert when we were in the area. Good people in this neck of the woods. Sadly Covid ended the trips and eventually took Bobby’s life. Thanks for the memory jog. My wife and I need to get back there soon .

Awesome video! It would be wonderful to see you get permission and video the time capsule for sure.

Pretty country loved the video yall take care, never say bye just say later yall 👍👍

Love yalls videos ahh the memories RC Cola and Moon Pie, so good changed to Mountain Dew when they came out its hot here in NC too thought yall were supposed to be cool in KY, haha, the country store near my house here in the country is still standing but not looking too good its been closed for many years but the sweet lady that ran it is still with us in her 90's now thanks for the memories and the video yall take care👍👍

Very nice video 👍👍👍❤❤❤

Been by there many many times .live in lee co .and worked in bell co. Always did like the area.

I love the videos you guys produce! I feel the same way when I go home and see my Elementary school, which still operates as a school, but it looks tiny to me now! It is Hot in Eastern North Carolina too!! Thanks for sharing!!

Its so nice when you have good memories of your childhood, when I think back to playing in the woods and running around the neighborhood and picking out penny candy out the corner store I am amazed how fast time goes by. Thanks for taking the time to share your memories.

What a legend!

I think you we're thinking of Super 10

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