Published on 5 May 2015
Last summer, I build this wooden rail kart from scratch. It’s powered by a 8HP Briggs and Stratton engine. The power is transmitted to the wheels by a selfmade ‘transmission’ with parts from a lawn tractor. It can go up to 50km/h (31mph), the speed is not limited by the engine’s power but by the weakness of the wooden base. (it starts to vibrate quite a lot around 50 km/h).
The 20km long railway has been abandoned for more than 10 years and is quite steep for a railroad. The maximum steepness is 20mm/m (2%) but it is often close to 10mm/m (1.5%)
Fun fact:
The last train that drove on this railroad never got to the train station, as the modern passenger train got stuck on the 20mm/m part of the tracks because of the wheels losing grip!Click here for PART 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=467&v=2D1l3sMc56cClick here to see a slideshow with some photos of my rail cart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am5RQc1_yusUnfortunately, some people destroyed it and stole the valuable parts, there is not much left of it, only the wooden base and the seats.
July 3, 2017
Homemade train / rail cart riding on abandoned railway tracks
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