We have a lot of abandoned rail here in Canada. I’ve often thought about making a very simple low-speed “rail chair with wheels” that I can put in my backpack and mess around with for fun. Hooking up to old rails is cool, but not as cool as having trains. Bring back trains!
Definitely be careful though! There’s plenty of rail that’s overgrown, horribly maintained, looks like it hasn’t been touched in 20 years but gets a train every few weeks or something. You’ll want to be very sure that it’s impossible for a train to be on the same track.
(There’s a town in my state that has some rail that is physically cut off from the railroad it used to be part of, so something like that would be the safest)
We have a lot of abandoned rail here in Canada. I’ve often thought about making a very simple low-speed “rail chair with wheels” that I can put in my backpack and mess around with for fun. Hooking up to old rails is cool, but not as cool as having trains. Bring back trains!
Its illegal to be on or near railroad tracks though.
Doesn’t this usually only apply to active ones rather than abandoned track?
Not always but yeah, and no one really cares.
Only if you get caught ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Definitely be careful though! There’s plenty of rail that’s overgrown, horribly maintained, looks like it hasn’t been touched in 20 years but gets a train every few weeks or something. You’ll want to be very sure that it’s impossible for a train to be on the same track.
(There’s a town in my state that has some rail that is physically cut off from the railroad it used to be part of, so something like that would be the safest)