Hey Greg
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Clutch
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I'd totally sh*t on that schedule, it sucks.
You wouldn't have time!!!
Clutch
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Clutch
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Las Vegas power
Tacoma
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- far enough away
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- Grand Junction, CO
I can run them too!
Can you believe someone stole the RAILS? !!!
I love that! It would be really neat to have hy-rail wheels on all 4 corners and spend some time on abandoned lines. I can think of a few that would be way fun, but yeah... you have to be careful on those unmaintained tracks. Not that I condone doing such a thing, since it's totally illegal.
This week I've hy-railed each & every day this week, about 20+ miles each day.
Tacoma
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wait, it's illegal to run old tracks???? aren't most of them abandoned??
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- Grand Junction, CO
The UP tracks that are 'abandoned' are still illegal to be on, especially running your home-built hy-railer on. I don't know about other tracks, but the area I work on has some abandoned track and when we work on them, we kick trespassers off, since it's still technically rail road property. It's more of a liability issue, IMO.
If my manager saw someone hy-railing on our abandoned track, he's shit his pants and throw the book at them.
Tacoma
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Interesting. So are ALL abandoned tracks technically still owned by various railroads? I know nothing about this stuff.
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- Grand Junction, CO
Well... kinda, but no. Don't quote me on this, but as I understand it...
Tracks have to be maintained up to a certain standard before they meet official abandoned criteria. If a track is officially abandoned, any railroad can move in and claim it, if they get it back up to running shape. Obviously there is a lot of value in railroad lines, so if a company isn't using a line, they'll put it on the back-burner and do the bare minimum to keep it up to FRA standards. Bare minimum is limited to 10 MPH, by freight traffic only. Many industrial tracks are maintained to that standard.
We have a track that we care for that doesn't get used, but we maintain it. The Tennessee Pass is crazy, it's steep and climbs to over 10,000 feet elevation at Leadville, CO. Winters are BRUTAL up there, I hear stories about it all the time. We were actually up there this Summer repairing a crossing.
Tacoma
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ah, right on. I know there are tracks in NY that NO ONE is maintaining, but no one is running the rails on 'em either-- we used them for access into the woods and stuff... never really thought about the legalities of that.
I will have to read up a bit, this is suddenly interesting to me.
I will have to read up a bit, this is suddenly interesting to me.
jdub
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