Rail Speeder ride on historic west coast railroad

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March 2024
This rail speeder is for sale. watch the video from link above for full details.

[@jayrap94]

The best thing about exploring on rails is that you can never really get lost

[@Pranjal90]

But, you can be get lost forever, coz those railroads have no maintenance from decades, the bridges could collapse & can injured them brutally. This is very very risky

[@raymondherbst7126]

Never lost, but a real butt tightener if you meet a train!

[@citizen240]

@@raymondherbst7126 If you meet a train ... or another speeder coming the other way.

[@Dealyo1]

@@Pranjal90 wet blanket alert

[@optimusprimer4392]

Gets stuck out in the middle of nowhere

[@santhanaraj5863]

The world salutes in amazement those hard men of steel who had laid those Railroad Tracks and built those Timeless Tunnels and Railroad Bridges in these rugged and torturous terrain cutting through endlessly awesome and breathtakingly beautiful landscape !!

[@normsweet1710]

I couldn’t have said it any better friend !❤️👍🙂

[@jamesd2128]

That's the E&N Railway's [mile 14, Victoria Sub] Niagara Canyon Bridge they're rolling over at the beginning[ 260 ft high.] Arbutus Canyon [mile 14.9 ] is the other bridge [225 ft high]

[@gerdacoonan7250]

Just plain Awesome !!, thanks for the efforts and sharing, cheers.

[@denzack1]

Try to hold your shot at least :03 seconds!

[@scoots5493]

AWESOME video! You are so fortunate to be somewhere you can do this....FUN! (old timer logger)

[@fixplanes]

This is epic. I want to build one now 😆😆 Thanks for sharing. 👏👏👏

[@tomspallone1868]

"I thought we were gonna have a beer!" lol

[@bonkees]

The sound of the wheels hitting the rail joints is fantastic.....

[@randomcoyote8807]

What fun! I'm officially jealous!

[@ross6371]

Years ago (early 1980's) I built a gas powered railcar that I ran on the Tacoma to Elbe railway. I was building a log home south of Graham at the time. Lots of fun running along the east side of lake kapowsin and further south. I remember there was this old tracked crain halfway tipped over on the south end of the lake. Wonder if it's still there

[@lovetotruck78]

@Ross Well, go and see if it's still there.

[@MrPaley-fq7eo]

Best rail video I've seen like this.👍😎

[@majorwedgie8166]

I think I have just found my new favorite hobby 😍

[@joankamp4513]

Totally awesome ride and views.

[@bollocks9981]

Very cool. It would be a great way to spend a sunny afternoon. Good footage Jason

[@gerrycoleman7290]

Those bridges got my blood pressure up.

[@twinvideoproduction9662]

Fantastic video footage and railroad scenery. I will be sharing your video link with my subscribers. Thank you.

[@finleypatmalcolm]

First time seeing this .. Its freak8n Awesome !!!

[@randygreen8916]

The railroads build the coolest bridges and tunnels, just amazing.

[@bsimpson6204]

Just amazing! Those viaducts terrify me lol

[@mumbles552]

Hey, where is this? At first I thought it was the E&N with Little Niagra, Hole In The Wall, Saanich inlet and Mt Finlayson but now I'm not sure. Sure looks like fun though!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Wow! That was AWESOME! I am always on edge thinking a train is going to come barreling down the other way!!!!! Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@garyjones7198]

S.C. I think these are abandoned R.R. and no longer used.. Some absolutely gorgeous scenery...

[@timothymiller5425]

I want to do that. I've actually dreamt of doing that! Friggin FANTASTIC 😘

[@20PhantoM07]

I’d shit my pants going over them trestles but this looks awesome! 😵

[@stephencresswell4760]

This is bloody amazing. I’d love to do that.

[@amberyooper]

That looks like quite the scenic ride!

[@alvinb1959]

That is so Way Cool - A Ride I'd Love to Take

[@flybeep1661]

This looks like a blast.

[@itssoobvious4027]

😍😍😍😍 THAT IS AWESOME !!! I WILL PAY TO GO ON A RIDE !!!

[@mwnciboo]

Man that is cool, bring your camping kit...water, food, etc. That is a hell of an idea for SHTF.

[@paulgrimm]

That scenery is so beautiful

[@callummcmurray5236]

this is Port Alberni to Parksville on Vancouver island the rail line goes around Cameron lake

[@insidepages4150]

I used to do this with my dad in his rail car. Probably the reason for not telling where they are is that it is illegal activity. No railroad owner is going to give a private rail car owner permission to use their abandon tracks. Too many safety issues, wash outs, tree falls, etc. It was great fun but very unsafe at times. There are clubs you can join that run these rails with permission and a hefty insurance policy.

[@thisolddog2259]

this was fun thanks for the ride! just subd but i have to say i use to love heights even rappelled in the Army from helicopter's! i don't know how but many years later i became acrophobic for no good reason! It sucks because i loved rappelling! I'll be 57 this year and feel like a wussy watching you over the trestle!

[@richcoffey4080]

fantastic!

[@neilbain8736]

It's amazing that you can do this in other countries, with such huge open spaces.

[@t.jjohnson6317]

love to have the plans to build a speeder...

[@daveyboygee]

Not sure if I was more mesmerized by that gorgeous granite tunnel or the 400 foot high tressel. Either way, great video, thank for sharing! Any plans to come down to Hopland and ride along the Eel river in CA?!?! Lots of dead line there to explore! Message me because I'd love to come along!

[@2fast945]

Thanks for sharing your adventures! I'm so jealous. I was actually hiking this very line about a year ago. FYI, it is an active line further up, as the ICF is still moving freight for its customers.

[@RuleofFive]

Where is this?

[@2fast945]

@@RuleofFive E & N Railway, British Columbia in Canada.

[@RuleofFive]

@@2fast945 Thanks! I thought it was in the US but wasn’t sure. Beautiful country!

[@lupoExplore]

That is an spectacular place and also the video. I would die to do something like that, thanks for sharing, I love this video :)

[@edwardbenkert2618]

That is so awesome

[@formosabrowning3539]

Impressive footage

[@BhupinderSingh-tt9ox]

Looking like some ghost movie... dangerous bridge....dark tunnel....no one around u....broken railings....camera just near the track.....sound/friction of wheels with rail..... Looking as some unknown third force is all behind this journey through the jungle.👍👍

[@4WDutah]

I’m thinking about buying an old 2seater go kart frame and building a rail speeder out of it and a trailer so I can go camping too!

[@Tony_W45241]

It would be nice to know the history of the rails that they are on and why the are abandoned.

[@mixrmandd]

Alot of the abandoned lines in the pnw once serviced sawmills and logging operations that either no longer exist or have become serviced by the trucking industry

[@The-Average-Noob]

This is the E&N railway if you wanted to look it up especially the Niagara creek trestle. Interesting story behind it.

[@raviarcot3145]

Imagine a ghost steam engine chugs in front of ur rickety trolley 🤣

[@danieln54]

That is freaking COOL👍🏻😎

[@mineiroetvgamg7625]

Lugar bonito , ficou ótimo seu trolinho , parabéns !

[@markhayes6407]

For an abandoned railroad the trestles are in great shape especially the ties

[@jamesd2128]

The E&N railway is not abandoned, eternally awaiting government funds to rebuild the infrastructure, but still considered an active railway legally.

[@Steve-qi7hc]

Nice ride... Thanks

[@scottlawson4622]

That is freaking neat

[@lewispaine4589]

I remember going over that trestle on the dayliner many years ago, yeah it's high alright!

[@gerrycoleman7290]

Where is it?

[@lewispaine4589]

@@gerrycoleman7290 This is on the E&n railway, (now basically abandoned) near Victoria BC, the trestle is near Goldstream Provincial Park, also near Hwy 19

[@rinston3591]

Just so cool 😎

[@delano62]

Very cool. I have a friend that builds and rides these here in Kansas.

[@scottofford3061]

Great fun! Thanks

[@ferroviedeltrentino2300]

love old railways

[@CattleRustlerOCN]

Those bridges are crazy

[@mikegall5511]

omg that looks like fun. How does a person go about doing this. Thanks for the video

[@ronduff4325]

How Awesome !! I want to do it !

[@jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069]

You guys are lucky, to have such wonderful good tracks. The abandoned tracks I've ever seen are deteriorated and overgrown beyond hope. I was kinda excited when the old cotton belt railway here in Dallas was abandoned, but then, they tore up all the tracks. I built a rail bike for nothing.

[@MrDegsy69]

What are those extra rails about on the trestle bridges? I would guess they are there to either strengthen the bridge or actually keep the train on the track in the event of a derailment. It is confusing as you sometimes see this on lines where mixed gauge rolling stock is deployed.

[@sludge4125]

The latter.

[@bigfatdavebigfatdave7395]

That is cool beyond words. Is it light enough to lift to turn it around or do you have to partially disassemble?

[@michaelnorris6365]

Wonderful way to travel. I assume there are no trains running at the same time.

[@scottb8175]

I'd bet that track is not abandoned. Dis-used or out of service, maybe, but probably not abandoned. The reason rail riding / biking is not very popular in Canada is because generally there is no where to legally do it. In Canada, if the rails are still in place, you would likely be trespassing on railway property (a much more serious offense than a misdemeanor, as in the USA). In Canada, abandoned rails are typically pulled up as soon as they are abandoned. Then the land ownership is transferred to the federal or local government or adjacent property owners. I know of a few possibly abandoned tracks that may exist in southern Ontario and Quebec, maybe. There was an unused CN track that went from Pukatawagan to Lynn Lake in Manitoba that hadn't seen a train since 2002, but I believe some local First Nations now own the property / track, if it is still there. It was still intact last time I was there, in 2010. One adventurous person / nutjob I heard about rode a quad down those tracks in the dead of winter. It took three days and many trees had to be chopped from the tracks. At least (most of) the black bears would have been sleeping. Finding intact abandoned track in the west is less likely than finding bigfoot bones.

[@rusticwood]

thats what makes this all so special

[@andrerenault]

I believe there's a line that's at least partly intact from Sherbrooke to Thetford Mines.

[@wingnutbert9685]

It's Canada. And it's disused rail. And if the local or fed's "own" it, then the public "owns" it.

[@high1voltage1rules]

BRILLIANT 👍👍👍👍 👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍

[@jpnrndr7983]

Unattended child alert.

[@rayfl502]

If you had a solid roller coaster wheel on all 4 corners what a difference. Could it be done?

[@jenserikjensen9270]

Hi, and thanks for the tour. Is this road open to the public?

[@rogerclegg8230]

OK; great, beautiful. Now, please: the location of this well intact yet decommisioned track? (by the dialogue, sounds like somewhere in BC?)

[@sludge4125]

The E & N.

[@tomtolentino7575]

What an awesome adventure 👍

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Nice video. What are the extra rails on bridges and trestles for?

[@Freshstart6354]

This is really cool, it would be neat if you could show some video of your Speeder, maybe you could put up a video and tell us a little about it, I would also like to know what State your speeder is going through, it looks like northern California, Montana, or Colorado, and what RR Line it use to be, maybe UPRR, GNRR, or DRGRR. My father was a Engineer for DRGRR UPPRR my brother retired UPRR, & he was all over the mountains in California, my Father was in Colorado.

[@RollingEasy]

How easy is it to pick up and turn around? And how many mpg do you get? And what happens if a train appears up front? :)

[@antohartanto6247]

very nice...

[@jaredreeves8685]

Hello good sir, any chance this beast is operational and available to be borrowed for a day. Looks like a blast, that would be an awesome experience.

[@pipercolt1963]

where is this line? its in amazing shape!

[@gregmaggielipscomb9246]

Thank You , is the some trackage on the old NWP line between Eureka and Willits?

[@scottb8175]

No this one is in Canada. The old NWP is truly abandoned on the north end. They even left a freight train just sitting on the tracks. They can't bring it back out again because the tracks are washed out. This one is not abandoned. A trespasser could face criminal charges if caught.

[@jm1551701]

'That's a nice rail speeder"

[@forrbi5185]

Wow, how did they build those bridges....

[@RailVentures]

That's a real nice speeder build. Where did you get the wheels may I ask?

[@dorayarn143]

Wow ang saya naman dyan at ang ganda pa ng view ingat kayo idol full support 💖

[@johnbennett3506]

What are those tracks in the middle for? At some of the ride it shows 2 sets of tracks.

[@ccaaproduction105]

Good job

[@ronaldromuno6383]

That is absolutely amazing. Beautiful country, yet sad at the decay of railroads. Thanks for sharing. Can you tell me where this is, even if it's just a general geographic location?

[@scottb8175]

Vancouver Island, province of British Columbia, west coast of Canada. The railway was originally built as the Esquimalt and Naniamo Railway in the late 1800's. The big bridge in the video was a used bridge - it came from the Canadian Pacific Railway at a site crossing the Fraser River at Cisco, on the mainland of British Columbia, and was moved to it's current location on the Island because it was replaced with a stronger bridge at Cisco.

[@ildart8738]

Is that Goldstream River bridge? Looks very similar. I rappelled off of it once. If you think riding on it is scary, try going ~100 m down the valley vertically.

[@CuzznRickH14]

Beautiful scenery, what was shown of it. Neat little cart. Just my opinion, don't go fast over the bridges....someone may of put a jack rod to throw the cart off the track.....not a pleasant ending. Hope to see more videos in the future. And if you do, please show more of the scenery and do a little narrating of the locations and so forth. Hello and happy trails from Rick H of Malta, Texas.

[@RobbieSongwriter]

Very cool footage - sweet rail speeder indeed! What railroad is this? and where?

[@dobermanpac1064]

Great Video.... Question...why does everyone use a noisy engine?? Has nobody ever heard the Honda with a noise surprising muffler??? Just asking...

[@johntechwriter]

A fair question. The excessive engine noise would really detract from an otherwise peaceful ride. Somebody should look into adapting a Prius powertrain for use on one of these.

[@chasemartin4450]

@@johntechwriter Prius powertrains make over 100 hp on electricity alone... there's no way you could put that much power down to the rails on a cart this light. Something smaller could be epic though - maybe adapt some hub motors to run on the rails?

[@Vi-hx5jd]

Question, do you ever run into other rail kart enthusiasts? If so, is there a procedure for passing each other? Is it just helping each other lift a cart off and on the track? :)

[@wingnutbert9685]

It's Canada. So there is the customary 5-10 minutes of exchanging of apologies back and forth. Followed by 20 mins of complimenting the other persons cart and belittling your own as a courtesy. 11 mins chatting about the weather. Then next is 7-13 minutes of exchanging insistence on helping each other lift their carts off the rails and past the other. Then the obligatory expression of hope to see again, possible chance run-in at Tim Horton's at some point or even an invite over for a craft beer and some Queen Elizabeth cake. Should be no more than an hour and a half or so to make the pass....roughly.... And that's on the fast-paced West Coast........if it was the East Coast...........................

[@sanddabz5635]

Where are these old lines located? Cool video!

[@william474]

Really cool video. How is that powered?

[@user-mp2tk3pw6j]

This is the E&N railway on the malahat!

[@darksid356]

Fuck yea! Van island for the win💪💪

[@Mrcodewarrior77006]

That's really cool! Are the tracks active? What's with the narrow gauge rails on the bridge? Thanks for posting.

[@1riverranch]

Those aren't narrow gauge tracks. They are guide rails in case of a derailment, they may keep the train on the bridge.

[@BurtonSKnowles]

Where is that? Is that the NW Pacific Railroad line up near Eureka, CA??

[@cvrnut09]

Tacoma Rails Mountain Division, well north of Elbe and Just across from Eatonville

[@scottb8175]

There are a few old logging railroad lines in WA and OR that look very similar, though. And some of those are actually legally abandoned, so possibly not illegal to ride on them? I know a few abandoned tracks in MT, ID, and WA, but I'm not sure if it is legal to be on those tracks. In Canada, unless the rails have been removed and officially converted to a public trail, that is a hard NO.

[@duggydugg3937]

falcon trestle gave me the willies..and i'm sitting in bed !

[@countrypaul]

Where is this, please? Are the tracks still in use?

[@chuckthebull]

really great..would love to know more about what track location is and how your cart works..it sounds electric? what do you need to get permission to ride these rails?

[@happydays8171]

Chuck Itall --> Doubt if they got permission. Can you imagine getting robbed by the ghost of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and other famous train robbers?

[@yhnbgt365]

Is this rail line near Yosemite, California? With the combination of trees, dry brush, and a river in a steep narrow canyon it makes me think of the area near Don Pedro Reservoir.

[@fabianleguel2960]

Awesome!

[@johnfrancis4809]

What happens if someone is coming the other way? Maybe it's understood that travel on given days is one direction? 😁