1952 ABANDONED TRAIN WRECK! What will we find?!?

[@BuilditFunky]

Time to dig it all out and make an "Aftermath of Derailment" display at the museum. Everything is twisted as mangled already.

[@lukemendel8197]

That is a great idea

[@SodorTrain1225]

That sounds like a cool idea! I guess it does help that everything's all busted.

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

Would be neat, though you'd have to presumably do something about the usability of the right of way

[@SodorTrain1225]

@@robertbalazslorincz8218 Agreed.

[@BuilditFunky]

@@robertbalazslorincz8218 I was thinking the same thing after I posted it.

[@onnelli]

Rio Grande archeology was not something I expected to see, but absolutely worth watching

[@Trainsntoys-ck4zq]

true.lol Edit: why is this a link?

[@desmondk-o7148]

something I think I *really* love about hyce's videos is that it almost never feels purely like is "I did this thing to make a youtube video" but rather "I got to do a really cool thing and I filmed it so yall can see too"

[@Nareimooncatt]

A very subtle but important distinction, and we are all better for it.

[@gentlemanzer]

11:32 The long long short long car horn made me chuckle

[@drewzero1]

I thought the honking was just annoying until he got to the short and I figured out what he was doing. 😂😂😂 Well played!

[@PennsyPappas]

Bretts Fiance: I bet his Bachelor Party has lots of strippers. Brett's Party: We Have Found the Elusive DRGW Brake Wheel buried in the ground, BEHOLD its broken beauty.

[@Hyce777]

We also fed chipmunks by hand and picked wild raspberries. Lol!

[@PennsyPappas]

@@Hyce777 HAZA! A party truly fit for a King of train nerdiness. I'm glad you guys and fun and shared us some fun history.

[@leightonmoreland]

@@PennsyPappas we partied like Disney Princess's

[@PennsyPappas]

@@leightonmoreland The 3/4 Idiots Pretty Princesses confirmed I love it

[@leightonmoreland]

@@PennsyPappas honestly our activities are a lot more wholesome than you might guess on the surface

[@slanderedstone]

Traveling old railroad grades is the best! So cool that you found some stuff that was still there!

[@kennethmaynard5046]

I had a job where i would drive many sections of N&W abandoned line in southern WV many miles was turned over to WV and they use the old railbed as county roads, tunnels used for car traffic, sidings into closed coal mines, tunnels bypassed. All due to the fact WV forced N&W to close that line into the southern coal fields.

[@manas7372]

5:47 spirit of Kenosha playing when y'alls are in a car.. hmmm.. seems dangerous...

[@gkcl1]

It started playing when Brett was climbing the hill, so I thought we were going to see him arse over

[@thetoontrain473]

11:33 the last time a crossing whistle signal was used on the monarch branch lol

[@VixessRin1702]

I love that everyone took turns playing cameraman and all shot/did commentary differently lol. The nature documentarian commentary was only a matter of time with these guys!

[@NicholasAdkisson1025]

Its so amazing to see items left behind when the railroad rips the rails up and leaves. Truly amazing.

[@SteamfanScott]

This is such a wonderful video and so cool that you all were able to find some treasures of the Rio Grande. And to find that "homemade" bracket is so amazing, hope that it can be confirmed as to what it is. Thanks for you and the rest of the crew for bringing us along for the adventure and hope that this could maybe become sort of regular thing, where you all go exploring old rail lines and see what you can find. And congratulations to Brett!

[@andywomack3414]

I used to show my tour guests the smoke-box front cover of the Mallet 210 that ran out of control, was abandoned by the crew and became air-borne after crossing the trestle at Riflesight Notch on the Moffat while descending from the summit at Corona. It was running light at the time.

[@Hyce777]

I have heard about that! Need to get up there to see it.

[@PendragonDaGreat]

6:12 Brett just calling out "FOAMERS" sent me.

[@OldYellowCab1929]

Fascinating stuff! From what I’ve heard, there’s still some wreckage on the west side of Rollins Pass where one of the 2-6-6-0s from the DNW&P ran away. Never hiked down to the wreckage itself but the coal from the tender should still be there. The engine itself (210) was written off as scrap and never made it to D&RGW ownership.

[@roberthumphrey1304]

There was an engine in Yankee doodle lake.

[@leightonmoreland]

the two phases of the weekend "ya want some more coffee" and "KA-chow"

[@OutbackCatgirl]

yall have gotta look up land ownership and see if there's any way to get funding to recover some of that wreckage - particularly the pretzel, brake wheel, and perhaps with incredible luck and heavy machinery that truck. It's probably never gonna happen but it'd make a mighty fine exhibit given permission and a budget.

[@CristiNeagu]

0:46 Was expecting you to say: "Interesting... train droppings."

[@jonjacob1962]

I live near Baltimore and love exploring historic Ellicott City. There's a few places where you can find old cars from the 50's as well as old train parts. There's one spot that looks like it was from a derailment and there are old train cars half buried in the hillside... A lot of them are all metal though...

[@perpetualpunster]

Perhaps the CRRM could have an archeological dig at that wreck site to recover artifacts for an interpretive display at the museum about the wreck and the Monarch Branch. :-)

[@anthonycook5238]

6:58, bro, that is literally my everyday life as an audio engineer

[@erichd9460]

SOOOO true!!!! Contrary to popular belief, handheld microphones cannot capture spoken audio through the speaker's belly button.

[@ZergSmasher]

That's extremely cool! You guys found a little chunk of D&RG history up there in those hills. That brake wheel would make a great decoration/trophy, too!

[@timlabell]

You guys are so cool and you're having a good time😎😁I'm 67 years old . I remember what it was like way back in the 80s. ha ha thanks for your videos. Sooo fun you are having. Remember this moment.

[@Jopsyduck]

That brake rigging is definitely not FUBAR because somebody recognized it.

[@davidty2006]

it do be FU tho...

[@blanetrain9584]

Up in some parts of Canada we used slag ballast on mainlines (also a local historian found a piece of metal from a train wreck in the late 1800s as it had the railroad initials cast into it)

[@gmangwilliam]

This is the most “BRO TRIP” thing I’ve ever seen! Digging into a side of a mountain looking for train parts! I love it!😂

[@Woodknotta]

This is awesome, hope you guys do more walks through the narrow gauge and on site videos. Keep it up Mark!

[@sargentrowell81]

To whoever gifted the membership, thanks. I haven't had a membership on any KZbin channel yet, so this was a cool surprise.

[@mechgt5]

Hearing "smells like Kenosha" as you're driving was terrifying thanks 😂

[@bluescrew3124]

YES!

[@scottbaker5975]

I live in Salida and work up at Monarch mountain. As someone interested in the history of the ng roads and a narrow gauge modeler, I "discovered" that wreck site as well this spring. I'm glad you guys left the debris there for others to experience the excitement we all were able to experience. I assumed all the debris burying the car hardware was from work on the grade in the later diesel years but not sure. Also in the area of the wreck is a section of ties with tie plate holes corresponding to 3' gauge and the alignment seems to line up with an area that looks like it was a trestle site though only dirt and rock remain.

[@jermy12321]

I hope yall picked up some extra limes from the limestone mine for some more 3/4 episodes!

[@Mooxystrains]

New title: 4 foamers dig up an 60+ year old train wreck to find a brake* wheel.

[@leightonmoreland]

And left it right where we found it

[@2dogsmowing]

While there for a Batchelor party. 😅

[@chooch1995]

‘brake’……c’mon, man!

[@Mooxystrains]

I fixed it

[@1471SirFrederickBanbury]

great archaeology Mark! looked like a fun time

[@XxxDBOY98xxX]

This was awesome very educational! Youve got some real good friends wish i had real ones like this haha thanks for the videos guys

[@brianentwistle145]

Love old grades. Use to visit an old tunnel in Wisconsin as a young hoodlum. Since been turned to a trail. Haven't been there since before that, probably cause I like to keep it the way it was in my memories.

[@bjbeamng8599]

I started dying at 7:02 with, "Here we see Leighton Morland." I continued dying at 7:07 with, "He's seen something that intrigues him." I was almost finished dying at 7:17 with, "Now I'm going to become Leighton." I was smote down at 7:27 with, "What's over here?" Leighton Morland is a legend who should be in a movie.

[@michaelramsey82]

The Tacoma doing the grade crossing signal is exactly the sort of delightful foamer chaos I'm here for.

[@NarrowGaugeFilmsLLC]

Awesome! We have done the same thing on other branches and there are so many cool finds like this. Thanks for sharing!

[@Idaho-Cowboy]

Very cool, would love to see more exploration like this. That would be a cool find regarding the journal oil doo-hickey.

[@aaronp51mustang]

If this is going to be a new type of series from you hyce, can I please suggest the name: "Off the rails with Hyce"

[@coreybonsall]

Jim Ozment's photos of the standard guaging of Monarch branch showed a bunch of dirtwork widening to try to straighten the curves (although not enough for 6 axle power). I wonder if that dirt work helped bury part of that wreckage as well.

[@Hyce777]

Hm. Certainly possible

[@unclepappy3823]

Ohhh baby this is SO COOL!

[@JCmilwaukee]

I love these types of videos digging around abandoned train stuff amazing ❤❤

[@peregrina7701]

It was so much fun watching you guys nerd out over the bits of iron in the woods. They held on really well over time! Thank you for bringing us on the adventure and I hope we can see more hikes on old alignments at some point (when you're not dealing with a sore foot, ouch). PS. I'm no longer alone - I'm not the only one who classifies every bit of fractured metal I find!!

[@kellys.6047]

Maybe there’s an old newspaper article about the wreck. What fun! Exploring and finding all that! Oh, you did mention more research later in the video. Thanks for posting!

[@PhilBender612]

Very cool Hyce. Definitely not your average rail fan video. Great stuff!

[@LukasMohr-rk3xx]

This is so unbelivably cool, I soo wish to have been with you, that would've been a lot of fun! So much cool stuff and people!

[@SPRailfan4449]

Wow what a find! Great job Hyce! 👏❤️👍

[@leechowning2712]

Happy birthday young man... yes, I am 40 and change... glad you having a great time.

[@xzy1579]

Thanks! I will pay for this.

[@Hyce777]

Thank you!

[@osageorangegaming5128]

This was a cool thing to see you guys do- you got so show off some history. A nice little rails to trails to trainwreck story

[@n3glv]

I chuckled at the pickup horn as he came down the grade. Nice vid

[@danielmkubacki]

SO COOL!

[@danehill9346]

What a great video! This would make for an amazing little series that I'd be super inclined to watch; going around and trying to find other local train wrecks from days gone by and learning the history of what happened or could have happened. Those 21 minutes before the member shout-outs went by too quick!

[@Arkay315]

I want to see you guys go back there and recover some of the wheels for the museum

[@highball5550]

Congrats to Brett!!! Such a cool thing that these places can still be explored and artifacts still be found. I may have to try my hand at some of this. I know someone who is very big on southeastern Oklahoma/ southwestern Arkansas short lines and logging railroads. I may have to talk to him about going for a hike sometime. Post script: really great shirt that Leighton has.

[@lylehargus4507]

my family owns a small chunk of abandoned railway in Michigan from the 1940s you can find chunks of coke around the track locations. they removed the rail and ties. but trees cant grow through the ballast to this day. pretty impressive what they did way back then to accommodate track to go through this terrain.

[@xManOwaRVIIx]

It would be cool to re create the train wreak to see how it would get so twisted thing it rolled multiple times. Love the vids ! ❤

[@dthom806]

I couldn't move rocks due to my shoulder injury unfortunately otherwise I would have been right in there with Brett.

[@hugothomas1199]

8:26 looks like a fun slide

[@craniel1]

this is so cool! this very much looks like the things on the Tennessee central railway. old hoppers and various stock left behind after accidents.

[@weibrot8324]

Great video, rusty metal in the ground is always interesting :D

[@dupdrewww]

I got scared when Kenosha started playing 😅

[@SnakebitSTI]

That choochoo had a very bad day. And the next 70 years weren't great for it either :( There's just something incredible about solving the problem of transferring cargo from narrow to regular gauge by _flipping the cargo cars over and shaking them out_ lol.

[@jaredstafford3354]

Man this video opens up some many darn possibilities for a series

[@thejdmworkshop9302]

would love to see more of this!!

[@billfreeland5489]

I carried a coupling I found once a quarter mile. Good excersize, that thing was a beast

[@firewolf2079]

Hey if you ever make it to Utah id be honored to take ya along the old promontory line, goshen and tintic line, or even the spring canyon line. Theres alot of places here to explore

[@oriontaylor]

This could be a small series. If you’re ever in Washington, how about exploring downhill from Wellington to see if any debris remains from the avalanche derailment?

[@zw345]

Could it be that the "riprap" on top of the bits of car is actually the load that they were hauling before the crash?

[@erichd9460]

That's what I was thinking too

[@Hyce777]

Certainly could be!

[@richardjayroe8922]

Be great to see that branch turned to a scenic railroad

[@MrDgwphotos]

Good luck with that... It would take millions of dollars to rebuild a completely abandoned line from the roadbed up.

[@HighballMachineWorks]

Get well soon, just wish the same could be said for what’s left of that wreckage, but at least no steamy bois were harmed in the event of this disaster, so we have that to be thankful for at the end of the day 😉

[@CardScientist]

I love the use of Smells like Kenosha both for arriving at the wreck, and the exact moment limes were thrown 😂 Also hearing Kenosha speeding up considerably while you were driving on the trail did cause some mild concern because I have been conditioned from your videos to expect crashes when Kenosha is playing lol

[@patricksheary2219]

What a fantastic archeological expedition, Mark! I was impressed, damage aside, at how well preserved was the metal. I would have expected to see nothing but heavily rusted parts but so much could still be made out like the bolts and nuts, gears and all that. I echo the crew by saying beautiful flanges! Though all bent up the break wheel is very nice! What a fabulous find, congrats on extracting that you guys! And shows you, Mark, the rot resistance of old growth lumber, the entire side of that gondola surviving, OMG! Leighton as David Attenborough was hilarious and Brett’s successful carrying up of the break wheel assembly was like a Rocky moment (humming the movie theme here). 😂 Would have loved to have been there. So many thanks for sharing this ultra-fun moment with us Mark! This video brought joy and made my day! Hope your foot feels better, and as always Professor cheers to you, Brett, Leighton and Dusty.

[@Hyce777]

Thankfully another week of not stressing it too much has done it a lot of good. Not 100% but it doesn't hurt all the time anymore so I will take it! Lol

[@haxorouse3265]

welp, gotta go back with a pry bar XD

[@BrooksMoses]

And a winch, and a couple of comealongs and some straps. Those wheelsets look like they might still be usable! And that larger truck with the rock on it might have intact journal covers.

[@bluescrew3124]

Looks like so much fun!

[@jeffwxyz]

I think what you are saying is Rip Rap is actually the lading of the cars that derailed. That may explain why they did not try to salvage more as digging it all out would have cost more than what is was worth.

[@Hyce777]

Certainly could've been, yeah! That would make sense.

[@MarkPeters-p8e]

Cool stuff good find

[@Tristan_S346]

That’s SO COOL!

[@dominicwroblewski5832]

A little tip for you foamer archeologists. Next time you have a car or truck close by, use the jack to help move rocks and logs. It is cool to see railfans who are also Dead Heads.(sacrilege here, I think Dead and Co. have a much better sound than The Grateful Dead) The Dead did have quite a few songs with train references aside from the song that is too obvious to mention. I really get a kick out of these videos. They remind me of my railfan friends 30 + years ago.

[@LoPhatKao]

when i was young i used to go to a camp that was a converted coal mine loved going down the tipple to the old grade was an old trestle a few miles down the line that was fun to walk to, til it was finally torn down in the 90s

[@3ftsteamrwy12]

"And in the next thrilling installment of Carolina Hyce, Hyce and his intepid team of adventureres will find the long-buried remains of the Mountaneer, hidden SOMEWHERE in the Colorado Rockies"... ("Mountaneer" being the Fairlie loco gifted to the D&RG by an English aristocrat to prove it worth on the Rio Grande..which went...poorly)

[@RandomCNUnit]

Very nice hyce! Hey gotta say if you can try to maybe salvage the loco and maybe JUST maybe you could restore the loco unless thats impossible

[@Dakota-96]

That looks like so much fun!

[@ryanpethick383]

There's a train wreck in, I think it was Tennessee, or maybe the Virginias, anyway it's in the mountains on the East side of the Mississippi River, left over from 2009, most of it's still there, all coal hoppers. I imagine 60+ years from now somebody will be doing with it what you guys did with that one, digging it up in amazement!

[@mafarnz]

You know I had never thought about the journal oil in the rotary dumper!

[@pacificnorthwestandsouther703]

cool find hyce

[@pacificnorthwestandsouther703]

and its not tempering with evidence if its already been tampered

[@Northweasterner]

So cool!

[@BandanRRChannel]

That might explain the mystery of the journal oil on the dumper! I remember asking Jerry Day about that during his presentation on the rotary dumper during last year's NNGC; he wasn't sure of the answer.

[@JonsGarage89]

Thats friggin cool!

[@rainbowchickenlive]

i got a cool steam loco that was abandoned in the mountains of Alberta/BC Canada, in YOHO national park, right close to kickinghorse. About a 30-40 min hike from the trail head, but it was a part of the first cross Canada railroad through the mountains. If you are ever up in this area check it out, its a must see for me! Edit: It's a "Baldwin 2-6-0 mogul steam engine- builders #7717 - road #6 - 36" gauge locomotive"

[@dallasparnell267]

Another Hyce moment for dad lore

[@desmondk-o7148]

the sheer *terror* of hearing kenosha playing in an IRL video is unparalleled; someone is about to go sliding down the hill and its probably gonna be Brett and I hope it doesnt hurt too much

[@pinecone01]

Man, what a scenic area. What a shame that line was removed. Still, very cool seeing the remains of wrecks and what once was.

[@polybius223]

For 491s birthday, what if you had her run her old tracks she used to run?

[@ELDRGW]

Bucket list trip 👌

[@jeffreymonroe4776]

question those peices that you dug up did you take them back to the museum to be display or did you guys put them back where they were before?

[@TheRandomRedRailfan]

WHATTT, the grande left it there and its STILL THERE!? Thats litterally insane

[@shopdog831]

That bent hand break shaft would make a good display artifact about the wreak

[@PanzerKitsune-]

Would you be willing to do a video on some of the lost rail lines of Arizona. Specifically the line up to Crown king AZ and some of the northern lines up near flagstaff?

[@MatecaCorp]

Now that’s my kind of bachelor party!

[@Nowheres_Channel]

"My foot is twisted, and the only cure is an equally or more twisted brake wheel!"