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This is the other tunnel along the same abandoned railroad. However, this is not part of the rails to trails. What is cool about this one is it is curved so when you go into it, it is completely dark until you turn the corner.

Its now a rail-trail

Peale Tunnel, Beech Creek Railroad, Milepoint 57.6. Now Snow Shoe Rails To Trails. Took this video last month. (technology improved a lot in 18 years compared to my older video ) Peale Tunnel.mp4

Here is one for ya, on the same walk. This one was put OOS in 1983. I have walked across this one.

Depends on the area, our area is usually rocky or has a lot of coal dust. Eats the sh** out of the bushings and bearings.

Oh that is only a small portion of the fence they installed, There are sections with fence as far as you can see, they spent big $$$ doing this trail. Now they are re-habbing the old railroad bridge. BIG bucks going into this ... for another 1 mile of trail! I took this picture today. We walked another section of the old railroad grade, part of it still has rail. We think next year they are going to convert a section to a walking trail. Wanted to get newer photos of what it is today. There is a massive washout that destroyed part of the grade, We can still get around it, but I think this is where the trail will stop. Might be able to sneak the quads in for one more ride before they convert this.

Technical = rocky

The video ended where it did because one guy in our group busted up his skid plate on that trail and had to turn around. Had to rig his plate with zip ties.

Surface is crushed stone.

It was well used by quads, nobody maintained it since it wasn't "officially" an ATV trail. It was a division of the Erie railroad that connected Plains to Hawley PA mainly hauling coal. It replaced the gravity raiload in 1885. This section was abandoned in 1972. Lets see if this works on this website, old vs new pictures

Rocks? You want rocks? Here you go

I took this video back in 2007. Recently the trail (old railroad grade) I was riding was converted into a walking trail (obviously no more ATV riding on it) 👎 I dug up this old video and put it together since it shows the entire section and what it used to look like. The quality of the video is lacking, but this was from 18 years ago. Image stabilization didn't exist back then so I wore the camera on my helmet. (mounted to the quad was useless with all the shaking) so there is some annoying frames of me looking around. I noted any historical items from the railroad in the video. There is a section where the railroad grade is wiped out due to erosion so I had to jump off it and ride an abandoned road for a section to get around it.

This is the LTD version so it came with bigger rims & tires. You need the ground clearance where we ride because some areas are very rocky. This machine has 12.5 inches of clearance.

This is what it looks like without the cargo boxes

Sorry, that was a typo, missed the "."

That is how people preserved food back in the day. Some older homes like mine still have a root cellar.

Until my link is approved, (found stock) dimensions are 24mm OD, 8mm ID, 5mm thickness

Country Cat has them in stock https://www.countrycat.com/arctic-cat-3303-282-washer-24-8-5-0000-c-97-07-26?srsltid=AfmBOopY2dFtZXEGSzE-QjWrDmvaPXOf1ZlnR09T_0Oye-phq9dsTM3F

Must be one hell of a magnet Its neat to find history in the woods. That is why I like photographing abandoned railroads. Never know what your going to find. Probably my oldest find was strap rail from a gravity railroad. Nearby I found iron couplers where were used to join two sections of wooden water pipes to feed water to the steam engines. I also found several iron ring straps which were hammered on the end of the wood logs so they don't split when installing the couplers. This dates back to the early 1850's Earliest railroad I ever photographed was 1829, but there was no relics left, only the old grade.

My old red one - 450 Michelle's old black quad - 366 Michelle's new one - 400 My new one - 600 (it looks big because of the cargo boxes)

The red one is my older machine. I bought a new one this summer and sold Michelle's old quad (she had a black one prior to the one she has now) I kept it as a backup and for plowing, but when I bought my new one, it was silly to have 4 machines so I sold one. First picture is the older quads (2016 picture) I still have the red one, I sold the black one this year, second picture is what she has now and my new one.

He bought it a month ago.

A nice late fall ride before this trail closes for the season. Took the older quad for a good last run for the season which also gave me a chance to try out the mount I made for the GPS unit. There is no stock mount for this model machine since it is too old. So I made one, not pretty, but it works. The backing plastic also provides protection.

Steel belted tires would make it more difficult to plug. A tire shop could have fixed it, dealers can get weird on what they will fix. Some newer cars don't come with spare tire. My one vehicle doesn't have a spare, they give you an air compressor with fix a flat. I added a plug kit to the car.

Interesting innuendo 😁 Before plugging, there is a second tool that reams the puncture to rough it up, it helps the plug seal the hole and helps inserting the plug. Usually the plug kit will include rubber cement which you coat the plug with before inserting. Acts like a lubricant to make it easier to stick it in the hole. The glue also helps seal small gaps. One trick I learned is after plugging, set the plugs on fire for about 5-10 seconds and douse with water. It also helps fuse the plugs together if you have to use multiple plugs. Here is an example of a plug job I did on a sport bike, sidewall puncture which is the worst kind of hole to fix. He got home just fine.