Abandoned Railway Deep In The Woods Of Maine With Dozens Of Freight Cars

[Music] all right everyone this is where i spent the night you see the grass is like two or three feet tall pretty peaceful out here that's why i drove way down here it's way off the main road and i knew nobody else would come down here and throughout the night i could hear moose walking by my car i could hear the grunting noises they were making and just as the sun's starting to come up i could see one of their shadows walk by maybe we'll see some on the road as you can see right now i have to drive extremely slow the ground is so uneven it just makes the vehicle rock back and forth i don't think this was ever meant for logging trucks like the machine that cut down the tree is what went through here i have like another thousand feet of driving at this is like one mile an hour to get out of here this road is pretty good can get up to about 30 miles an hour mucky area all right i waited another hour for the sun to come up let's go start the trail you see what i'm walking on right here a lot of this is shale rock shale rock will give you flat tires if you run over it too fast or you slam your brakes on on top of it there's a bunch of patches of this along dirt road but for the most part the graters have pushed it off to the side that's how people get flat tires coming out here i brought a full-size spare and i have a donut but it really didn't seem too bad on the way out it's about a five hour drive on just dirt once you leave the pavement all right so this is where we are it's like a 20-minute walk over to the locomotives and right here is what they call the tramway we'll go take a look at that i was actually out here yesterday it's a pretty nice trail this morning it's a little dim that's why i wanted to wait until the sun came up because a lot of moose hang out on this trail because there's a really muddy part and they love mud it has not rained in about almost 10 days but yet there's still mud on the trail imagine coming out here on a rainy day you got to have some rain boots but there are signs out there they have giant piles of lumber i think they're going to build a boardwalk over it also coming out here i definitely could have made it out here and back on one tank of gas because i only used not even half getting here it's about 150 miles almost 200 miles on a dirt road i have like a 400 gallon capacity but as a precaution i brought 10 gallons of gas with me because i'm not going to just come out here and leave i want to drive around for a while also brought some food about 10 minutes down the trail we have reached this is the railway this big open space that we're now gonna walk down pretty soon you'll start seeing tracks they've ripped it up this far those are fresh a moose was down here since last night because there's a lot of people here yesterday and they covered up all the tracks there's a lot of mud on this trail that attracts them just look at the evidence of this part of the trail how much water actually comes here when it rains and this is the bad part of the trail you sink really deep in some areas ton of this mud and up here that wasn't down yesterday see all these marks looks like a big moose was scratching up against it and knocked over the tree here's some more boardwalks i gotta warn you don't step on the ends like a seesaw it'll flip up and hit you i did that yesterday extremely deep here this is where the moose hang out at night all right finally ran back into the tracks you can see them down there and for the rest of our walk we'll be down right with the tracks this right here is a siding which we'll go check out later really cool there's dozens of abandoned freight cars down there and they've been sitting since the 1930s because this train track was built in the 20s during the great depression they shut it down they parked all their equipment which is out there rotting in the woods they parked their two giant locomotives inside of a garage which later was accidentally set on fire in the 60s they were ordered to burn it down because they were afraid of people getting hurt on it but they later found out they didn't actually own the building it was a lease so that was an accident you can still see some burnt parts on the trains but for the most part they're just rusted there's also a tiny steam engine in the woods a bunch of boilers gears parts and right here i would assume they maybe airdrop this i doubt they carried it in here it's a big open space up above it that's probably they're gonna build boardwalks over all that mud is what i would assume that's all for at the beginning of this hiking trail we pass over the train tracks and they made the trail go through that muddy area these tracks do look pretty big i wonder if that's standard gauge okay so this is telling you get a big fine if you try stealing any of the railway parts obviously a lot of people have stolen them because you'll see things are missing off the trains look at that this old railway switch just grew right into the tree i would like to see how those things used to work you see this entire thing is is the lever you push it over and this is the switch over here yeah there's going to be multiple tracks up here there's a bunch more of those sidings here's another one this was a 13 mile railroad after the great depression they never started it back up again because it was obsolete it was more affordable to use trucks in the 30s than start the trains back up after sitting that long look at this see that really small piece of train track that is for what they call the trim system even the big train track here is a lot smaller than what you would see anywhere else usually these days the track is like two times as tall because trains these days are a lot heavier and also if you notice the ties have completely rotted away there's no ties out here at least not in this area there's some pretty good ties that are underneath the locomotives which i figure they must have replaced because i've seen some old pictures online of the trains all jacked up they must have been doing some work to make sure they don't fall over because you know they're heavy if the track rots they'll probably tip over okay this is one of the tiny steam trains let's get a look in there put the light on there's still some pieces of coal in it that's cool it's got some plants growing out of it [Applause] okay let's continue the rest of that train is up here in the woods here it is looks like it belongs to that you can also get to these trains by kayaks you can get into the lake at other logging roads a lot of people do that eagle lake and you also got to think what happened to all the railroad spikes yep people stole them all you don't see any of that stuff laying around okay we have finally made it up to the locomotive i can start to see its shadow look at all these cross sections keeping them aligned see how it branches off one of the locomotives is straight ahead on the grown in part of the track and one of them's over here look at that that must have come off one of the engines one of the wheel rods a bunch of random parts you see all this track is going way over there maybe there was a third track i definitely recommend coming here early in the morning because yesterday afternoon when i came here there was a ton of people but they they left like two hours before sundown so i guess before sundown's a good time also get this little bridge made out of logs this is the trim system that you would see on the map if you walk up here you come out to the we're going to walk up there because there's machinery that pulls this see these tiny little wheels on that little track it looks like they're way too wide for it but i guess that's for it doesn't fall off that mini track the system's actually upside down this is supposed to be the other way you see the big claws they place the log on top of the claw and it would go down through here this is a pretty cool engine over here just the engine block i actually saw the head of the engine walking down here that's along the trail maybe someone was going to take it call it far on the ground that thing sunk okay now the exciting part then we'll go take a look at the box cars two engines this one's in a lot better condition you see the canopy on that one is just non-existent it's rusted away like look at these ties those have got to be new so they must have drove down here years ago you could tell no one's been down that road in years with any type of vehicle maybe an atv that could be how they brought the logs in or those timbers this part pretty much is still stable that platform most of the cab is stable got to be careful there's rusted jagged metal everywhere it's really easy to cut yourself on this thing whatever you call these the drive rods that's what i saw laying down in the woods it looked like it came off the smaller one let's get a look at what it says about the train i'll make sure all that focuses if anyone wants to pause that there's a summer picture of it and there's a picture of it working yep back then all the box cars were made out of wood so they're pretty dilapidated when we go look at the box cars that have been sitting out here for 90 years you see this here like i said these trains were parked in a building and they burned them down that's probably what caused the rust so bad because if they didn't burn it down it would have been protected with paint for years before it started rusting but that really got it decaying now this doesn't look too bad you can't see it from far away graffiti like that i don't mind they're just names as long as people don't come in with spray cans across the entire thing like when you come in here to this forest they ask you at the checkpoint your reason for coming you say camping or a lot of people say to see this thing they actually have directions for it now years ago you were on your own and a lot of people got lost eventually they created directions the old parking lot was actually right here next to the locomotives and you'd have to walk a little bit further but they created another parking lot i actually tried doing it with the directions i researched myself i didn't know they actually had papers with the directions i ended up having to use theirs because my vehicle i was running over little trees that were three feet tall you just couldn't do it you need an off-road vehicle i had to turn around and once i got to this massive mud pit i'll show that road on my way out look at this wheel just a tree growing right through it as you see the tracks would have continued through the woods it was a 13 mile trail giant gear oh these woods are scattered with random wheels now we better take a walk through those woods afterwards yeah you can tell these trains burned because i've even found old cars that have been out in the woods 100 years and they've never been that bad see all this is hanging off the back the trains used to have wood bumpers which have rotted or burned away look at this that's wood oh that's cool you don't see trains where that stuff's made out of wood anymore there's still grease inside of the bearings oh that one's rusted shut can't open that bearing you can see it's really shiny a lot of people climb up inside yeah you see i don't know looks like some parts are missing in there all the pipes are taken apart the whistles are definitely gone and up front this bumper's missing now this one has a metal bumper this one doesn't appear to have wood holding it together okay let's step up inside [Music] okay here we are inside the engine floor is all rotted out [Music] look inside the firebox is huge this that's not seized up underneath something's all rusted and jammed see people have taken all the valves off it over the years let's get a look up inside because you can step right here this is pretty stable the sides of this look like they're crumbling right but they're so thick the metal it's sturdy it's made out of copper in some people's videos they called us the ghost train by the looks of this [Music] it used to be pretty good the paint before it started peeling step down on there all the parts that are shiny are obviously safe because a lot of other people like you see these holes even though there's holes there just look at this see it's thicker than it looks i would never put all my weight on that part though okay let's get a look on top of the fuel box i think a while back they were actually converted to use oil that's why it's more of a tank let me climb up on here in there would not want to drop my camera in there yeah it does it does look like a cool box i heard someone in one of their videos say it was converted to burn oil okay i'm on the roof now look at that that slides open and shut the hatch up top okay let's see what's in here a lot of people go down there look how shiny the ladder is let's see what we got looks pretty awesome down there let's check it out make sure there's not a bear not really much i assume people just go down here to take pictures not really a reason to go down there it goes nowhere this big hatch right here isn't seized up that is extremely heavy that hatch and here's the ladder on the back of the train that ladder is also in great shape okay let's go check out the other train hear that there's a loose piece of metal me walking around in the trains making something inside move around got raspberries growing up on the roof just climb down on the back let's go check out the other train this one looks like it's tilting that must be why they replaced the track under this one because you see they obviously put new track under it because if you look up this place online there's some pictures of it tilting and they had to stabilize it with logs looks like this one has new tracks too that's just a bunch of extra wow there's actually still a piece of glass up inside of that little window right there no one broke it not the front one they broke the side there's i could still see a piece of glass this bumper in here is all rotted out see that thing fell as the things just rotted away [Music] well this locomotive is not as sturdy see this is a door that opens up the hinge other hinges broken when you try to get up here if you put your hand on this handle look what it's attached to you don't want to trust that put all your weight on this one now this one has no protection for my canopy but yet the floor and this one is more stable than the last there big firebox now this one you can't even budge like the other one wouldn't move a little the uh stairs on that one are really shiny a lot of people go there this one the platform on the side is actually pretty stable okay let's just cl walk right up onto the roof for this one there's a lot of trash inside of this terrain i saw when i was out here last night see all that and it's filled with water what do you think they didn't fill this with coal did they someone said they converted it to oil i'm unsure this one here you can tell a lot of people go down inside of it just by how shiny it is until a lot of people must come out here during tourist season look at this see that there right there those are roof drains for all the rain water on top of the engine can leave and there's nothing down in that one just like the other i gotta show it see that nothing in there but it would make an okay shelter right there that step is pretty shiny a lot of people climb up onto the roof you can see it's shiny there it's shiny along the edge people walk out there that must be pretty stable see all those bolts looks like there's something a wooden handle maybe [Music] [Music] so [Music] i just got up on the train to take some pictures and i'm realizing a lot of places on this train they actually repaired to make it safer for tourists a lot of the things you'll find are loose but they're actually very stable like that step right there was moving like crazy but they fastened it pretty well you just got to use common sense on here don't put your weight on anything unless you test it first like this here is all stable but you can't just walk out right there because inside the train here look at that the floor is just falling apart if you put your weight on that it might hold you it's pretty thick this metal but if you fall through that that's gonna cut your leg open and you're hours away from a hospital without any cell phone service now over here are their sidings where they kept all their machinery you see their stuff just rotting away now a few of the cars are in really good condition well for their age none of them would ever move again [Applause] over here is how people access by kayak right down there by the water now you see they just parked the train here and it disintegrated because the cars were made out of wood there weren't any metal reinforcements as you can see just a bunch of stabilizing rods and maybe a brake line we'll walk through between all of these in just a minute the ones that are in decent condition are down here where parts of it are actually there so you can see what they would have looked like see that right here that's part of one of them carefully make my way through all the twisted metal look at that the trains are still hooked together they were planning on using them again see that entire side wall of this box car and some of the beams are still here this one this is what i was talking about earlier on the trains you see that really thick wood bumper the ones on the trains rotted away and because so many people come out them climbing on it didn't help either they just helped disintegrate the rotted wood even further goodness the grease is still inside all the wheel bearings they're still greased i think the forest is actually protecting the stuff the ones that are in the sunshine are rotting way faster with all the temperature changes just like some fences i have in the yard stockade fence that's underneath trees looks brand new while the other part looks like it's been there for half a decade it's in the sun hey look at this literally everything's put together with wood see it rotted so the whole suspension just fell on that one okay this is the one i wanted to show here we have all the hand brakes look how fancy the wheel was back then this you can see what they used to look like the back wall right there with that big x and here's the side walls they've been sitting here so long look at that that tree is starting to grow around it look how fancy their old wheels were new trains aren't like that and down here a big massive rock pile and it's the end of the siding this was put here to stop the trains this big pile i'm now walking up on and it's just marshland behind it right below that siding where all those are parked this is what i was talking about earlier this one is standing the right way up so they would have put the log down on top of that so it would grip and they would be able to pull them out of the water here a half a mile that way into the other pond to transport them they used to float the logs the best way of transportation back then before they had roads and trucks look at that gigantic gear this must have had something to do with the trim system there's a big piece of concrete there with a tree growing on it look at this huge chain this gigantic pulley and there are more pulleys like that we're gonna walk to the tram station just a moment eagle lake beaver lodge huge gear here it's probably where they pulled in the logs at least in the summertime you can't see the trains any of the stuff from the water so you have to know where it is if you're kayaking got to be careful with every step here's some more cable and what is this thing maybe that thing i saw earlier wasn't a train maybe it was just stationary like whatever this is some big pulleys on that yeah some of the grease is still on the gears look at that it's a giant wheel of cable okay let's see walking the other way between the rail cars some of these are standing up better than those other ones still got some cross beams look at this tree it looks like it as a baby its seed started growing on some of the beams it got too heavy and it crushed the train but thankfully its roots were still touching the ground so its able to support itself and we got some box cars up here that are in decent shape considering their age looks like that's it look at this the roots of the trees are just ripping up the rail an old switch you can kind of see how that would work back then compared to today's switches the entire thing is a handle for leverage and see it pivots on here when this gets thrown it pulls on that bar coming out here this bar you can see how it moves back and forth it's a lot simpler than today's today's have a little gear box it's more complicated but it's usually easier to throw a modern one and the track is ending right here they tore up this little section you see there would have been another switch and this is the last rail car if they didn't tear up everything there would be a good switch here now this is gonna go back to the main trail and we come out right behind that steam boiler if it was a train or it was just for power who knows there's a ton of little flies living inside of the coal box or that would be the fire box but there's still coal in it from years ago and now i'm walking towards the big engines again and i'm gonna take a right so we can go look at them all right after a six tenths of a mile walk we've come to the tram station there's this lump of dirt going all the way through the woods it's elevated just like a train track where they have that mini tiny track you're seeing right there and just like with the steam trains they rebuilt the end of it i obviously had to cut out myself walking because it took like 20 minutes you see got this tiny little train track on the regular sized ties and up here is the example they have the log on top of the teeth and it would pull it through the woods here's an old picture of this exact same place there's the engine house that was burned down with the two trains inside it not one thing looks the same not the land nothing over here does you can kind of see that right that picture now then huh okay they just elevated that part so it would stand out but the regular track goes all the way down to where those steam trains are let's go take a look around here at some of the machines see it goes right down into the water to pull logs between the lakes i guess this was more efficient to them back then instead of just having the train pull down here okay you see where i am now the ties and everything i've rotted away east boston massachusetts 1901 well this thing had like a 500 mile journey from where it was produced a bunch of bolts in there is this open yep it's pretty cool does it still lock [Music] then we have another one look at that it goes up collects air from the middle and straight up it's cool how they have that open for extra air [Music] and that's a modern piece of pipe [Music] look at the size of that belt how does it not slip off of that it's amazing i wonder if that's the original belt or they put it here for show so the steam train ran this thing across into a gear box and a massive pulley right here which is sitting in the water and it would have pulled that cable more than half a mile and down here look at these things that's to pull the logs out of the water got those big spikes on top of there those are pretty sharp that would hurt if you stepped on that with thin shoes a bunch of moose come out here their tracks are absolutely everywhere last night sleeping out here i could hear them grunting but it was so pitch dark couldn't see a thing until in the morning 4 am the sun started peaking and i could see one of them their shadow they were standing nearby now right here you can see they definitely put new wood did some concrete work to make sure this thing stays here it looks like there's a fire here that's amazing and they have this whole thing opened up so you can take a look on inside that whole thing was probably filled with oil once keep that thing well lubricated two fireboxes so as you can see from me standing there those gears are about six feet tall the one sitting in the water is more like eight feet this chain is frozen shut such a clean place while back looks like they had a boardwalk kind of walking to the edge in case these break looks like it would have went around to where i just was all right i'm going to start walking back i'll show a little of the tram system hope everybody like these trains and now the rest of the video is going to be showing the road back some places of the road are really bad some other places are good the speed limit on the road is 45 miles an hour most of the time you're able to go like 25 comfortably and some places i got to almost 50 other places i had to crawl at a two miles an hour because you were driving over these big rocks in the middle of the road some places the culverts got clogged it washed out all the dirt you have to go over it so carefully one spot i slightly bottomed out but all it did was scratch one of the plastic panels under the car my car is uh eight inches off the ground so uh if you were to come here with an actual car i don't think you'd make it i have not seen one actual car out here it's just trucks and suvs and jeeps but you can definitely come out here without an off-road vehicle people always complain all the other videos of this place oh you're going to get a bunch of flat tires i actually bought a full-size spare because all i had was the donut just in case i got a flat out here and the road wasn't that bad there is a lot of shell rock patches but when you get to that you gotta slow down and also the areas where the dirt got washed out and it's all just a bunch of big rocks you gotta go really slow because you could break part of the suspension going over some of them and some of them come without warning it'll be super smooth and you're going 40 miles an hour suddenly go around a corner you've got to slam on your brakes there's a whole bunch of potholes i'm gonna show a bunch of the road damage look how the trees grew right through it the cable's going right through the tree in a whole bunch of places ton of woodpeckers you can hear out here here's the head of that two-cylinder engine somebody moved it from down there very recently that tree didn't fall too long ago there's still sawdust i'd say in the past week just walk down a little ways see this switch here i just unlocked it and tried moving it it's all rotten everything but it's still connected because i can see the bar trying to move here we still got some ties pretty rotted though can't really walk any further so many trees this part of the track is underwater and right there was a mud slide at one point completely covering it up all right it paid off 45 minutes later i walked through like a mile of that blow down area the moose like created a trail up around it there's more train cars here it looks like there's a siding down here the track is really grown in because people don't really walk here but there's like a dozen more train cars dilapidated we still got snow underneath these and there's more like three dozen of them now there's another siding starting with a whole bunch more this trail is going to be real unpleasant in another week today there's no mosquitoes if you look in the water there's mosquito larva in there i can see it's swimming around i also saw a bunch of that in the parking lot but i'm back i always keep some water in here that's for washing up and i have this thing it's really efficient for spraying off boots it's like a little pressure washer it barely uses any water to clean up got some bug spray in here a whole bunch of trail mix jerky canned food snacks and stuff i actually use this pan for washing up and i got my spare tire right here i just bought that the other day i keep it right here it's the only place i could think of because when you go over a bump i don't want it flying the back seat i backed it up really tight against this to keep it in place and this is where i slept last night i also have a bunch of drinks in here and up front i have two five gallon gas cans which i'll add to the car on the way back they gave us a map of the entire state of maine at the checkpoint they also gave this this is directions on how to get out here to the trains and they also gave me another paper i have to sign my name and give the time i leave just to make sure i leave because if you don't check out they'll go search for you there's also a whole bunch of these frost haves that come out of nowhere you see that it looks like nothing but boom if you go over that at full speed these things go flying in the car right here off the main road this is the old road that i tried attempting yesterday i went through this mud pretty well i would have got stuck if i stopped but i sped through it so i think this is my tire tracks are here on the side yeah that is my tire tracks looks like barely anyone goes down here this is what i'm talking about you have all these little trees brushing up against the bottom of the car you could hear it not a big deal it's not going to damage anything but when you get down there that is what made me stop there's like a really deep pool of mud right there and this is like three miles long i didn't know what to expect so i went there new way the road here is well maintained but over here this is what will slash your tire this stuff is extremely sharp even against your finger if you have one sticking up like this straight that'll puncture a tire and if you go over here and you slam the brakes on going through that you'll surely get a flat and there's areas where the entire road is like that you got to go i go like five miles an hour through that it's better than getting a flat and it doesn't last long it only takes a few minutes to go through that area when they log in area they always leave a couple trees like this standing that way they drop new seeds and they can log it again in another 40 years [Music] [Applause] and on the way up he passed by a few logging camps right here on this part of the road they have a bunch of colored ribbons telling you to slow down because you can see there's a lot of shale rock and that will pop your tires oh look at that a moose i saw it standing in the road and it just ran to where it's standing take a look at this culvert pipe sinking making a big divot in the road take a look at this culvert that's not gonna help out at all got some big potholes there this gigantic frost heave just lifting up the road and they marked it so people don't hit it there's frost heaves everywhere we got a collapsed culvert pipe right here look at all that dead wood now here's a really bad section of road you gotta go over this like two miles an hour really really bad but it only lasts a minute then you can get going 30 again all right look what we have here look at that culvert pipe it's a big bump in the road it's all sticking up not even working this is just gonna flood over the road next time it rains look at that culvert it's like shredded [Applause] you can tell it was going through here the last storm looks like they maybe did some smoothing out but look what it was probably one of the loggers did this put a bunch of logs there to get over it but it looks like it yeah it washed out since they did that look at the logs are all out there in the woods that's a bad washout most likely caused by the beavers okay let's get going all right here we have another culvert this one is really bad it's completely smushed and it made this big dent in the road if you can see that that's like six inches deep that is quite the impact when you hit that this one's even worse this one's like a 10 inch dip in the road right here we have a pretty deep washout you see that the road is so packed right there this here is like 18 inches deep because of the heavy trucks it gets so packed it actually looks like asphalt in a few places years and years of being packed and all this erosion is exposing lots of shale rock and shale rock is what will pop your tires right here is some shell rock you see how sharp some of those pieces are you hit that at the right angle you'll get a flat look what we have here this culvert a big hole in it look at that right down to the water you

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Published: Sat May 30 2020