Diesel Electrics in the Deep Woods

Note: This is not a "Shifter"
Island Pond Railroad a 7+1/4" railroad in New Hampshire, USA. Here you will see the electric locomotive pulling a short cut of cars through the woods.

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• backyard
• railroad
• train
• diesel
• electric
• fun

[NH4x4Jeep]

VERY NICE!!!!  Did you buy the wheels and trucks or cast them yourself? Is the rail metal? Did you buy that or build it from other materials?

[islandpondrr]

@NH4x4Jeep

Trucks were purchased from Tom Bee. Rail is aluminum. It was extruded

in Branchburg, New Jersey.

[pwnage38]

can you ride it?

[islandpondrr]

@pwnage38

Yes.

[darktrooper4]

is this private or open to the public?

[islandpondrr]

@darktrooper4

This is a private railroad.

[islandpondrr]

@Yeben01

Nope. Just need to learn to make do with what you have.

[LegoCentral100]

How do you control it? (Remote,Onboard,ETC.)

[LSnoob]

confused 

[shartasticful]

This is so neat I popped a boner.

[KnittingPasta]

I want to ride in the caboose

[chris40539]

i was thinking about making a burlington northern gp30 like that size some day

[NH4x4Jeep]

"The happiest people in the world don't have the best of everything, but make the best of everything out of what they have." =)

[NH4x4Jeep]

I have an article from the 50's on how you could build something like this with either entirely home-made or pre-built components. They started with something like a wagon or car w/wooden wheels on wooden rails, then moved up to metal on the top of the "rail" to increase durability. The next step up was to buy/build rail (ash shown here). They used commercial wheels/trucks.