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railrodders are fun. Three decades ago i've got to ride on DIY railrodders - an open wooden box/platform with bike engine driving the repurposed auto car wheels
by trhway 6y ago
railrodders are fun. Three decades ago i've got to ride on DIY railrodders - an open wooden box/platform with bike engine driving the repurposed auto car wheels, "kludge" doesn't even start to describe the contraptions, glorious noise and vibration - people in that Russian town use those railrodders as a personal transportation mode into/from the forest as there is an abandoned "narrow width" ("uzkokoleyka") railway branching deep into the forest left over from the long time ago when it was used by timber industry. Riding it while drinking with the fishermen/huntsmen can't be farther from the Keaton's gentleman style :)
- ficklepickle 6y agoThat is so cool! I've always had a fascination with riding the rails. That sounds like a truly unique experience. Nowadays CN has pickup trucks with train wheels that raise/lower. An old roommate drove one for work, it sounded quite interesting.
- dhosek 6y agoThose pickup trucks have been around since at least the 80s if not the 70s. I remember seeing them as a kid on the Burlington Northern tracks outside Chicago.
- dialamac 6y ago> railrodders are fun What is a railrodder? This is the first time I’ve heard of its use outside the title of this film, and I’m pretty sure it’s referring to the Keaton character.
- trhway 6y agomy mistake - i thought the word is following the "hotrod" principle of construction. The usual word would be "draisine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine.