home made (metal) rail road car

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Cool project. Reminds me of the "railbikes" I've seen, small pedal powered vehicles designed to run on old rail lines. Adding an engine makes it a lot easier to go further though.

Elijah

------ doesn't know of any long runs of *disused* rail near him

Thats great - thanks for posting.

I'm on the west coast of australia (the train guy's on the east coast). The government here has a history of decomissioning rail and placing the freight on the roads in trucks.

Paternal grandfather had something like that - two wheels on one side, one on the other, similar to:

He and my father used it to come home Saturday afternoon and back Sunday evening to the various saw mills where they worked as sawyer and setter respectively. Train traffic was no problem with three round trip trains per week. He stopped using it when roads were improved to the point where automobiles became more convenient. He sold it to a collector around 1948. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

That's very cool. Now he neds to add a sickle bar to the front to keep the tracks clear.

Remove 333 to reply. Randy

What kind of snake was that in that photo? I know Oz has some killer snakes. Dave

Not sure as they all tend to look similar at the distances I like to maintain. It looked fairly "flat' in the region behind the head. This would indicate two things. 1) it is probably a Tiger snake 2) it is starting to get pissed off. The steps to take in those circumstance are large ones and a good quantity of them as well. They have a very good antivenom avilable in most hospitals in Australia these days, but they are still a dangerous snake. Like most native animals it is a protected species here, however, in the country, they often succumb to tree branches that fall on them from above. Above is usuually about shoulder height of the local farmer. There are more highly venemous snakes here but the Tiger is the most often cause of snake bite because of their agressive nature.