Found this one on youtube. I am not sure where it is. Any ideas? The speeder looks to be home made, but lots of fun. This is probably illegal, so don't repeat.
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one word,
stupid.
Why not join a certified speeder club and ride in a real putt putt? Like it? Get certified and buy one or possibly take control while an owner relaxes.
At least those two guys were careful where they were being stupid. But the lack of rail sweeps alone says "probably" is inaccurate, risky for sure. The legality aside..I've seen a velocipede video and 2 walk throughs of that area for the tunnel and I'm pretty sure it was them about 4+ years ago walking it. Hopefully there was one previous to this; they weren't moving slow. Even if they owned the line, not without sweeps 
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Tumbling across ties at speed alone in the middle of nowhere? 
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I just also have to question their reaserching much of anything fully enough to be really safe without even adding railsweeps....
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Not Smart...
We were doing this 45 years ago in the early 70's with home made 10 hp speeders on abandoned RRs in the PA/NJ/DE area. Totally fun. Great scenery, no liter, friendly folks. No trains possible due to rail removal in a couple of areas. The only rail traffic we ran into were speeders going in the opposite direction.
The one thing that scared me were the high trestles.
Today there are many clubs who have purchased retired RR speeders and ride on RR right of ways with the RR permission. Typically dozens at a time going on tours where ever permission can be obtained. Flagged or operating crossing warnings always used. Don't knock it till you have tried it.
Where was this video taken?
