{"id":39058,"date":"2017-07-03T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39058"},"modified":"2017-06-23T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:22:14","slug":"homemade-train-rail-cart-riding-on-abandoned-railway-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/homemade-train-rail-cart-riding-on-abandoned-railway-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade train \/ rail cart riding on abandoned railway tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gv67mxV5TY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Published on 5 May 2015<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, I build this wooden rail kart from scratch. It&#8217;s powered by a 8HP Briggs and Stratton engine. The power is transmitted to the wheels by a selfmade &#8216;transmission&#8217; with parts from a lawn tractor. It can go up to 50km\/h (31mph), the speed is not limited by the engine&#8217;s power but by the weakness of the wooden base. (it starts to vibrate quite a lot around 50 km\/h).<\/p>\n<p>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%)<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact:<br \/>\nThe 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!<\/p>\n<p>Click here for PART 2:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=467&#038;v=2D1l3sMc56c\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=467&#038;v=2D1l3sMc56c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click here to see a slideshow with some photos of my rail cart:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Am5RQc1_yus\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Am5RQc1_yus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, some people destroyed it and stole the valuable parts, there is not much left of it, only the wooden base and the seats. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 5 May 2015 Last summer, I build this wooden rail kart from scratch. It&#8217;s powered by a 8HP Briggs and Stratton engine. The power is transmitted to the wheels by a selfmade &#8216;transmission&#8217; with parts from a lawn tractor. It can go up to 50km\/h (31mph), the speed is not limited by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-39058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railways","tag-interesting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a9Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39060,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058\/revisions\/39060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}