Those cans are from the Railroad builders camp cook wagon, They would move the camp every few miles as the tracks were laid. You’ll find more piles as you follow the rail bed.

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you for that.

@unclebilly1353

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. There are probably that many in the next railroad camp. Pretty cool, thanks for sharing. Be safe out there.

@arkhitek2251

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@1nvisible1

Жыл бұрын

*Those cans look hammer & chiseled. Can opener appeared 1860s. If you marked the perimeter, swept the cans outside and metal inside that circle you'd find more.*

@brad9529

Жыл бұрын

@@1nvisible1 we had a manual can opener as a kid, it left the same pattern as on those cans, you position it then with your palm hit the top piercing through the can, then leverage it up and down tearing through 3/4" at a time, simple and effective.

I was visiting Mount Rushmore and it was the height of the tourist season. We were lectured about not disturbing the 'trash' we found along the hiking trails because they are artifacts from the distant past of humans who had been here before. As we left the place we pulled out into one of those vista points to look back at Mt Rushmore. As I looked down at my feet there before me was a loaded diaper. I said to my wife, 'look dear it's an artifact.'.

@nichesound

Жыл бұрын

Trumpturd

@jamesortiz5388

Жыл бұрын

My brother said you could probably find soiled pampers in the Himalayas.

@MrJal67

Жыл бұрын

I was stationed in the Mojave awhile back, we were told the same thing about the piles of cans and other detritus that was strewn about the desert there...

@GordonScottYankeeEngineer

Жыл бұрын

OK that was good 😂

I really enjoyed this drive. I especially liked when you said,”I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, ever”. That made me laugh!!

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

😄 I'm glad you enjoyed. Thank you for watching! 🤙

In the 70's we had old topographical pictures taken by the military of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts in the 1940's and we would find the old wagon trails you could only locate from the sky and followed them in our 4x4's.. We found old wagon wheels and furniture and just all sorts of old things from the 1800's.... A lot of those roads we made that we like a lot are now popular four wheeling roads today.. and the people driving them don't even realize we made them with our trucks following wagon trails... That thing you found (power line you called it) is an old telegraph cross member... The telegraph lines used to run down the sides of the train tracks mostly...!! Those Santa Cruz cans are old black powder cans From a company called California Powder Company...re: for explosive... they ran from the 1861 to 1914... so those cans are old. I know a ton about the deserts in AZ, NV, CA.... Spent many years out wandering them.

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, very cool. Thanks for that info. I know of a location with about 7 standing telegraph poles (now that I know) that still have wires running from one to the other. I want to go film it one day.

@arkhitek2251

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Railroads used to have telegraph lines running along beside them for communications. Those wooden pegs were original and had glass insulators on them but the steel parts were added much later to carry power for lights and switches, etc. For some reason they removed them all over the US. A friend got a government contract about 15 years ago to remove them in parts of Oregon. That sign you read about the rails meeting there is interesting. Two different railroad companies started from the east and the west and that is evidently where they met. It was a really big deal at the time and they had a big ceremony with news people from all over the world. The President was even there and they drove in a solid gold spike. You can find pictures and Will Smith had it in a movie. All those people would account for all those cans. BTW, did you notice how those cans were made? Not crimped but each one individually soldered by hand. Lead poisoning.

@ModelLights

Жыл бұрын

Look up 'Making a Solid Gold Railroad Spike' by Cody's Lab on here, he had quite a bit about it if this is really the correct place..

@dr.jamesolack8504

Жыл бұрын

@Not You The place where the east and west railroads met, and where they drove the gold spike was in Promontory, Utah.

@dewboy13

Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing they removed the glass insulators, to reduce the risk of fire, due to sunlight getting magnified by the glass. I could be totally wrong, but that old glass has started fires before.

@RTmadnesstoo

Жыл бұрын

@@dewboy13 They removed EVERYTHING including the poles.

@dewboy13

Жыл бұрын

@@RTmadnesstoo crazy. That is definitely odd. Can't put anything past some of these states, especially Oregon. Most of the time with their decisions to do this or that, there is no logic put into it.

Those California Powder Works (CPW) cans were made before 1906 when DuPont bought them out. CPW was the first explosive manufacturer west of the rocky mountains. That was a cool find.

@sonyaandreanoff6765

Жыл бұрын

Yup I came here to share the link! Pretty cool!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Powder_Works

I enjoy watching your travels on GE as you go! Thanks for posting!

The concrete box was most likely a battery tub for the early railroad signal system.

Growing up in the 60s in the Mojave desert my parents were avid Rockhounds. Camping out in middle of nowhere for a weekend was not unusual for us and when I say middle of nowhere it was. We found many trash piles old bottles and at time old Indian villages especially around the Barstow area . I even found a snail fossil ( still in a museum in Victorville) we had a blast

@midgetsheliumandguam5937

Жыл бұрын

Your parents sound cool as hell. I've been rockhounding for 40 years. Arrowheads pet wood, fossils etc. Loads of fun.

@wadeadams4263

Жыл бұрын

@@midgetsheliumandguam5937 we couldn't wait to pack the truck tie on the bike and head out to someplace my parents heard about. My dad had lapidary stuff in our garage. We went to Oatman when it was still a ghost town ( not what you see today). The Mojave desert is a great place that still has a lot to be explored. Thanks man

@wadeadams4263

Жыл бұрын

I licked ALOT of rocks as a kid

@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo

Жыл бұрын

@@wadeadams4263 that's cool, I heard a few spots in Barstow you can find fossil shark teeth...

The Santa Cruz CPW (tin or can) or California power Works was a manufacture of smokeless powder in the late 1800s.

@chriscook8076

2 жыл бұрын

California Powder Works

@feellucky271

2 жыл бұрын

Gunpower...ha ha

I like real people doing and saying real things. I'm interested in where and what you show next.

@CharityS-Minnesota

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Over scripted channels are a dime a dozen! I’d rather watch real people doing real things in real time

Thanks, with the price of gas these days you just saved me a $100.00 and I got to see it all from the sofa.

Between California and Nevada I found several of those little stashes of pots and pans,soup and food cans, cigarette and tobacco tins. It's almost like taking a little trip back in time when you find something truly unique and can actually read the name branded into the steel or what the containers purpose was.😁👍 EDIT: That large can that you found was actually a powder keg from California Powder Works ('CPW' for short) and it was explosives for the military and it might have been used in blasting for the railroad. That can could be dated as far back as 1846!!! That post that you found looks like it might have been for a telegraph which could explain why you're finding those cans in specific areas there might have been some type of structure put up so that there was some type of communication be made through telegraph wires crossing the distance of the desert parallel to the railroad. GREAT FINDS , COOL BEANS!!!

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

WOW so rad 🤙 I appreciate the info! *Pinned

@MedicatedMemory

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@standdown4929

2 жыл бұрын

I found a bunch of military silverware at a spot like this in Arizona.

@bladerunner752

Жыл бұрын

@@standdown4929 nice, im out near Buckeye and used to live down in Tucson were I found an old rusted 1800s revolver. Almost rusted away but an awesome treasure. Always wondered what happened to who ever was carrying it, God only knows

Just found your channel. Great stuff, and I am a Trooper guy too! I own too many. As for the can dumps, I disagree that they are 120 yrs old. Given where you are in the Mohave, I’d suggest it’s left over from 1942-44, the US Army’s Desert Training Center. And the large concentrations of cans are mess/feeding sites for soldiers. One hint is how they are opened: by the irregular cuts made by a P38 type can opener. A mess section would have the larger P38 type can openers.

@oneal36

2 жыл бұрын

Forget to add: Keep Troopering!!!

@Darkk6969

Жыл бұрын

Not sure because he found several cans of gunpowder by California Powder Works in the same pile. Someone posted that California Powder Works ran up to 1906 before DuPont bought them out.

@oneal36

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkk6969 Then that makes perfect sense. I retract my WW2 observation. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING!! IT'S BRILLIANT!

@b1bmsgt

Жыл бұрын

My P38 makes a much cleaner cut than that!

@dr.jamesolack8504

Жыл бұрын

@@b1bmsgt Agreed.

Old dump sites are interesting to go through. On my father in-laws property in Southern Oregon there is an old dump site from Camp White during WW2.

I hope you carry plenty of water with you as that seems like you get pretty far off the path!

Alot of that you'll find in southern Nevada will be from Patton's army as it trained there back in the early 40's. We still have tread marks in parts of the Anza Borrego desert here in San Diego County as well as plenty of can filled creek beds and ravines just like that.

I’m just glad to hear some of the cowboys lived to be that old. I wouldn’t think their lifestyle was conducive to such longevity.

In the 1950’s and into the 1960’s my dad found a treasure of relics in Tin Can Ally near Calico and Barstow Ca. He had an old WW2 metal detector (used for clearing mine fields) that weighed a ton. His other favorite place to poke around were 50 year plus old outhouses, when someone lost something there they didn’t tend to go and retrieve it. Last Chance Canyon near Ridgecrest Ca was another favorite place of his to go. Nice vid.

Back in the early 1970s, there was a thaw in the Rocky Mountains. Some campers found a few dead bodies with Asian body features. They alerted the police and coroner. They found more dead bodies in the snow and ice. It was not a serial killer. They were deceased Chinese immigrant railroad workers from the 1800s. In the pockets of their ragged clothes were a few pennies from the 1800s. Harsh working conditions.

Imagine, if you left your SUV in the desert, 120 years from now, people driving hovercrafts will come out and admire it :P

@elixtido1448

Жыл бұрын

They'll beam to the area

@BrisLS1

Жыл бұрын

I hope he brings water on those trips. I keep thinking that black dog must get hot and thirsty.

The Nevada desert just blows my mind, that's one awesome place, and dangerous too. 😻

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

It is a very intriguing environment out here 😬

@justthetruth2662

Жыл бұрын

why dangerous??????????

You are just like me but about 40 years younger. I think that old trash is pretty cool also.

@steves7896

Жыл бұрын

Same here. No, there's no collector value in any of it. But there is value in coming across it, it's like a glimpse into the past, especially as it lays in its original spot, mostly undisturbed. The can dumps always connect me that way. Several comments in here suggested gathering them all up and throwing them away. Be realistic and just leave them alone. (Not that any one of those posters are gonna take the time and effort to go all the way out there just to bag up a few old cans.)

Santa Cruz CPW (California Powder Works). Those cans were at one time filled with gun powder for mining and railroad construction. The company was founded during the civil war. Later the company became a subsidary of DuPont in 1903. So, yeah! Those cans have probably been there 120 years or more.

Nice can dump. I was in Nevada last month. Stopped off the highway near Luming and found an old Cone-top beer can. Still intact. Not as old as your find, but I was happy with it.

@kiotewolfer3278

Жыл бұрын

That would be luning not luming. Just outside that town the are 2 large can dumps that the locals used to dig many years ago. Bottles were a common find as were opium pipes from the Chinese that were shipped in to work the mines and build the railroad that once wen thru the center of town

Very fascinating,your dog is very well trained, loving going through your videos! 🙂👍🏻

Reminds me of the backroads outside of Tonopah NV. There's a huge fields of cans all over the place. I guess recycling wasn't a thing back then.

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

I actually did see one video where somebody found a pile like 10 times bigger than this near that area.

6:10 would have been kinda nice if you hadn’t left the broken bottle with the points upward.

@michaelfrancis7072

Жыл бұрын

I agree, it could have been nasty if his dog had trodden on it.

@faulltw

Жыл бұрын

Ha HA LMAO your killing me good one! The entire desert littered and he has to worry how he leaves one item with points up...

This feels like a scene out of the game “Fallout.” I expect to see a Radscorpion jump out of the ground at any moment.

You were 100% correct about that being a power line. Glass insulators would be screwed on the spiral dowel things on top. I found this interesting and kinda relaxing. Thanks for sharing.

12:28 should be a cross beam that was on a pole. Each of the 4 woorden pegs would have had a glass insulators on them for electricity. The 2 rubber connectors on the end would have been for telegraph. I could be wrong

@normalperson1475

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I saw where the pegs were threaded and that is what I was thinking about the insulators.

@glennfoster2423

2 жыл бұрын

Was the railroad grade that of the Tonopah and Tidewater RR? Ran from Ludlow, CA north into Nevada. The wooden pole w/insulators would likely have been for RR telegraph communications. All of the stuff is historical and should never be disturbed. Pictures are best

@glennfoster2423

2 жыл бұрын

There is a plethora of information on the T & T RR in Death Valley Jct

@Darkk6969

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing those old rubber connectors held up in the sun for so many years. It looks brand new. Quality made stuff.

@BrisLS1

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking telegraph also. Because why would you run power across a desert that long ago?

Outstanding, Stick a telescoping pole with hook on the end in the vehicle. Critters can also be under the blanket!! Maybe also some sort of GPS locator so the deputies can find your location.

Interesting CPW California Powder Works operated from 1861 till 1903 making gunpowder and explosives in Santa Cruz

What REALLY interests me is those PVC pipes sticking up out in the desert. At 5:35 you can see one right there by the pile! It appears to be surrounded by relatively fresh ground disturbance like something is buried there. (Relatively is relative in the desert LOL) I always assumed they were USGS seismic detectors or something and that's the antenna. rive by or the train comes by and it phones home with it's data. (I reckon) seen those things all over in my travels around the southwest deserts.

@patrickvanden8322

Жыл бұрын

Noticed that too! at 6:20 there is a closer shot from it. Anybody knows there real purpose?

@hodady1

Жыл бұрын

I think they are mining claim markers----

My favorite back roads are the ones I haven't driven before. Looking for adventure. Those cans represent a lot of beans.😊 Thank you for the trip. ☮️💖🎶

The journey ,very interesting in observing small things left behind. 🤔🤓

Rubbing compund likely mid-1900's Can probably was repurposed since was recloseable, a desireable feature pre-tupperware. Good wander.

The hole in cap cans and the pre-ABM bottle base you found put this site in the pre-1904 range. I've been on nearly a thousand of these sites left by settlers, miners, travelers and in your case, railroad workers. I'll bet somewhere near there is a "hell on wheels" site of broken liquor bottles left by the people who used to follow the railroad camps and set up near the tracks to supply the workers with every type of vice they wanted.

Could have been a chuck wagon for the railroad.

Being from Appalachia I wasn't much of a desert fan but I did enjoy that you could actually go off road and explore the landscape unlike where I'm from.

Dude you gotta expand to other states! Would be pretty cool to see what you find! And would make years of videos for ya!

Tya for the look around.

I'm always jealous of you desert guys. Yall have endless offroad activities out away from people. In the southeast we can go out in the woods to get away but pretty much restricted to the road since the woods are so dense. I'm on the gulf coast and no matter where I go traffic can be heard and woods so dense you might be able to see the ground through the brush once in a while.

The Desert terrain kinda cool!

I have lived in Las Vegas over 50 years. I enjoy doing power line roads and old miner roads. There is no shortage of them.

I live on a 1892 homestead and I’m constantly finding stuff from that era.

I've been to that exact spot looking at all those cans . Nice out there .

I find it amazing how well the desert preserves objects. So much there, when you are willing to look.

@CliffSherlock

Жыл бұрын

Everywhere that industry happens, the garbage left behind lasts longer than the men and women that worked there. There are stashes of cans throughout the forests of west central Alberta where logging camps were set up Our can stashes follow creeks and rivers typically no buildings left, occasionally get a concrete platform where the sawmill was but normally the foundations were wood and the food cans are all that’s left to tell the tale.

I believe that bumper you found is off a late 60s early 70s Datsun pickup

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

Ahh interesting 🤙

Great videos. What kind of extra gear/parts do you carry with you?

@RemoteTrooper

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I just bring a small tool kit, some recovery gear, a satellite communicator, protection and some basic survival stuff.

Like the finds and areas but the camera spin is off setting take time to lan the area. Fast swing make viewer dizzy. I was a photog at times learned from TV. Thanks again for the views.

So it is possible for a content creator not have their face and stupid ass humor be the center of attention! Also, mad props for recognizing the importance of not stripping the land of these artifacts or handling or altering them. Instant fan and subscriber.

They used to put telegraph wire running close to same root as railway.The telegraph machines were at stations.What baffled me was the wire fence.

I'm more interested to know what that capped-off piece of PVC pipe is sticking out of the ground.

@patrickvanden8322

Жыл бұрын

@redneck racing LOL, i'm sure there was no PVC back then.

You need to check out the chuckawalla valley rd in California off the i-10 between corn springs road and bylthe

The Santa Cruz CPW (California powder works) buckets were used for gun powder. Manufactured in sant acruz. Sant Cruz CPW became Dupont in 1903. Those are old buckets. Amazing trip!

Great Stuff man...... Keep up the great work..

I'm thinking that piece of wood with the insulators on it, was a cross member from the top of a telegraph pole. A left-over from the days when telegraph lines were commonly installed along the right-of-way of railroad lines.

Found spot up in Cedar Ciyy UT a h like that. Still could make out the name on the cans of oil. Crazy.

My friends and I would ride dirt bikes, quads and now UTVS in mostly northern Nevada as we were always getting tickets in California for unimaginable stupid things. 30 years of exploration and a lot of good times. I would so pay for fuel to do that again as my friends just quit doing it for assorted reasons.

@anderander5662

Жыл бұрын

I have not been to California in 5 years.... I just can't stand the craziness

There are areas like this in Oregon near Bend. It is all protected from harvesting.

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

I have visited Bend, it's so beautiful up there.

@snarklar

2 жыл бұрын

Oregon has a lot to see. There's still broken down wagons and everything. Old towns. And then just the high desert out there is amazing.

Can you imagine that people who were eating the contents of those cans 120 years ago helped to build this country & they're long dead. They must've been fearless.

That wooden 4x4 with the tapered wooden screws was from the top of a power pole. the glass insulators screwed onto the wooden screw and the wires were then bound to the glass insulators. I collect old bottles and have a number of the old insulators. They aren't particularly valuable but they are interesting and it is nice to have a few in my collection.

Pole is the top of a power pole, that had glass insulators that screwed on the post.

The wooden cones on the arms go into glass railroad telegraph insulators. The concrete box is likely a battery backup box for crossing signal or maybe train signal.

I've been there and found California Powder Works gun powder cans . The forerunner of Hercules Powder I do believe . Early 1900 they blew up a plant in California . Not there anymore . No rust in the desert so stuff doesn't rust away . I assume they were used in the construction of the early railroads . South Las Vegas Blvd , just before Jean .

What a great video! And what you thought was a powerful I believe was probably a telegraph pole

If you go to the western edge of golden valley Arizona outside Kingman there is an old bar on your left if you are driving towards Laughlin Nevada, if you take the last road on your right take it out around 5 10 miles then venture over the mountain range when you come out the other side you will find a hidden tropical oasis with running water pond , sand and palm trees that absolutely should not be there, my dad's buddy lived out there we drove his Toyota land cruiser out there so as long as you got 4 wd you will be ok , if you decide to look for it please film it I have only been there 1 time with my dad and his buddy, it is one of my very last memories of him I would love to see it again be safe

Seen the same in Joshua park ,an old camp ,dozens of rusty food cans , been there for a long time

Makes you wonder about the people. Most are forgotten but something to indicate their presence remains.

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

Very strange food for thought

Yes I’m out in Tucson Desert all the time and I see a lot of all cans like this myself mostly they were shot up or maybe they were eating food who knows but it is cool to see that every so often

Crossbar for power or telegraph. Cool finds. Nice trail ride.

@RemoteTrooper

2 жыл бұрын

Yes somebody else said telegraph, that's so cool. I appreciate it!

@unclebilly1353

2 жыл бұрын

Telegraph! Dam things have changed.

Are you near old RR tracks? That looks like a telegraph pole cross tree

imagine the weight of those cans full, quite a load for 100+ years ago. must have been several wagons full. They must have had bags of sugar and flour also...??? They could have been stuck in a snow storm for some time.

@aspitofmud6257

Жыл бұрын

I think the RR would bring in supplies. Might as well drop off the coffee and beans while dropping off the tracks and ties. Yep.

Cool iPhone stuff like that here in Tucson all the time there’s a lot a little copper mines that they tried to get copper from and left a lot of cans and stuff like that

Interesting,I wonder what it would be like to fly around low and slow in some sort of ultralight,any event good video thanks

@markweber1807

Жыл бұрын

New a guy that had a ultra lite and he took random photos of the desert using infra red film. It showed things not seen by anyone, like real old trails. Well he followed his photos and it took him to a rock with pioneer names on it!! Good luck to you.

Maybe they lived on a train, and that's where the railroad dumped the garbage. Large companies are kinda notorious for making messes.

Dog couldn't wait to get back in car.

With all those empty cans of beans they must have flew to the moon

Where I'm from I can go out into the woods with nothing and survive no problems plenty of water food can make shelter but there I would be a skeleton after awhile.

Arlo Guthrie left those cans there on one of his infamous dump runs

These videos would make a good ad for Isuzu Trooper cooling/radiator systems.. 🔥

What you indicated to possibly be power lines were most likely telegraph lines. Or poles rather.

WOW!! @ 11:59 you passed on an antique telegraph pole with connecters!

They actually did have a manual can opener. It was about a 2 inch triangle blade on a handle. They also came with a bottle opener and a cork screw, shortly upon inventing the "Tin Canned Fruit and Veggies". Meats, Fruits, Milk, and Veg's we're the 1st canned items. The can made an evolution from wrought iron and tin to a light steel, and 8n 1858 the can opener I referenced became available. It's an interesting History. Beth Sociologist and Historian Miners, Railroad Builders, and remote residents relied upon these products at the turn of the Century.

I grew up near Fort Custer...a US Army Fort built soon after the Custer massacre, 12 miles away. In the mid 60's my friend and I found the Forts' garbage dump site in a coulee. We dug up bottles, uniform pieces, boot pieces, uniform buttons, LOTS of ammunition casings / slugs / intact ammunition and occasionally a "US" belt buckle. The property was owned by a friends family so we could come and go at will.

I'm sure somebody else has answered this but that's definitely a telegraph pole they typically followed the railroad line

I'd get me a walking stick to poke around at things, instead of using your hand. Never know if a snake or scorpion is under it.

@KaL_Tero_Vet_RET

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly... and a leash for the dog. I'd hate for a snake to attack my dog cause I left him loose roaming around.

What was the stick or pipe sticking out of the ground at the first pile of cans that you stopped at? Slow down panning the camera around. You move it around so fast it makes everything blurry - not good movie photography technique.

@KaL_Tero_Vet_RET

Жыл бұрын

Yes, please slow down. I was trying to enjoy the video, but the fast panning was difficult to keep up with...

Surveyor Parties traversed over large tracks of land back in the day. Look for Brass monuments to confirm a good find.

Go about 150 to 200 ft out find the old foundation where old bunks used to be or shacks.

Finding this historical stuff is pretty awesome and interesting but when people throw refrigerators and stoves ect in ditches or out on the prairies is a different matter 🤔

living in Florida this is like another country to me. I'd love to visit this party of the country.

That place looks like another planet.

It looks like you're in Blythe California in the Palo Verde area

Those cans are from 2 years before my father was born - when you think of the events and changes in those almost 120 years , it's unsettling.

Highway 50 is a very long road I'm from wva and I have been been along almost all Of it very long and lonely but I loved it

In the 50’s through the 80’s, car rubbing compound came in those cans.

The can you found Santa Cruz CPW (California Powder Company) an old 1860's company that made Gunpowder for about 50 years in Santa Cruz, CA.

What lake was that where the old lake bed is?