ABANDONED LOCOMOTIVES IN THE WILDERNESS

Abandoned Logging Locomotives in the forest in Maine
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  • @fastmail55
    @fastmail554 жыл бұрын

    I am so glad to hear someone say, "They are not trains, they are locomotives!" Thank you for stating it so well!

  • @michaelcooley4553

    @michaelcooley4553

    4 ай бұрын

    I still maintain the proper term is "Choo Choo"

  • @waynesheppard207
    @waynesheppard2077 жыл бұрын

    R.I.P steam era, you will be missed 😭

  • @carltorjusen558

    @carltorjusen558

    4 жыл бұрын

    cough..cough...cough

  • @heyokawalker197

    @heyokawalker197

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually Steam could make a comeback in a huge way. Volkswagen back in the 90's actually made a 220 hp prototype steam engine that could get up to temperature in 30 seconds. Never came to mass production due to no consumer interest. However I think it had more to do with the oil industry. dyler.com/posts/317/the-volkswagen-engine-prototype-that-did-not-need-oil-or-conventional-fuel

  • @garypeter5110

    @garypeter5110

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wayne Sheppard yes they will be MIST, ha ya get it

  • @Michael-Madrid

    @Michael-Madrid

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@heyokawalker197 another gem of a steam car would be 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car kzread.info/dash/bejne/pImbwdekctrZqdI.html 132.5 mph 150hp 1000 footpunds

  • @clutchpedalreturnsprg7710

    @clutchpedalreturnsprg7710

    4 жыл бұрын

    R.I.P. Steam Era you were fun & will be missed: KZread video: Santa Fe 3751 (Los Angeles-San Bernardino) Feat. High Speed Pace!

  • @KareemEmotion
    @KareemEmotion4 жыл бұрын

    As a Thomas the Tank Engine fan, it'll be interesting to see these locomotives talk and tell the backstory of their careers/adventures.

  • @davej3781

    @davej3781

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes, as a father of 3 now-grown kids who were huge Thomas fans, especially the younger two, I instantly thought of Hero of The Rails when Thomas finds an old japanese locomotive sitting on an abandoned spur, and sets about restoring him to operation.

  • @Kendallian132
    @Kendallian1327 жыл бұрын

    From my recollections as told to me by Bill Gove, who is a retired forester and forestry history buff living in Vermont... Until the mid 1960s, that entire operation was essentially frozen in time. When the lot was lumbered out, the company that had built the lumber camp (actually, it was more like a village) just up and left. As I was told, it was intact down to the coffee pots on top of the wood stoves in the bunkhouses. Apparently fearful of squatters moving in and establishing a community, the Maine State Forestry Dept., or whatever the agency was called at the time, was charged with the task of destroying the site, so they sent someone from Augusta up there (and it's quite a task to get to the location). No one from the State had actually been in there and they relied on hunters and trappers for information on the condition of things. When the agent from Augusta saw it for the first time and saw how pristine it was, he made his way back to the nearest phone, called Augusta, and asked if anyone there had SEEN the place (amazed, as he was, with having seen this veritable museum of 1920s-era logging technology). He was told in no uncertain terms to "Burn it!!!". So he went back and burned it. Everything. The lake boat (which had a walking beam engine), the locomotive engine house (those engines came from the New York Central I believe), the bunkhouses, log sluices, drag lines, mill buildings... EVERYTHING! I was recently at the Maine State Museum in Augusta (across the parking lot from the State House--it's an absolutely SPECTACULAR museum) and asked if they had anything from the Eagle Lake and West Branch. They had no idea what I was talking about. Imagine that!

  • @trainzguy2472

    @trainzguy2472

    6 жыл бұрын

    John Alan Roderick so sad to see it go. These days people care more about preserving history.

  • @theguyinmaine
    @theguyinmaine4 жыл бұрын

    Been there by boat, one year when the water was real high. The engines, tracks and other material was brought in over the ice and assembled. There where no tracks coming in to there. The rivers and lakes were the roads. The rail was to move logs to the south bound route, water, that ran from lake to river until the logs hit the Penobscot River where they were run to Old Town Bangor area mills and sawn in to lumber. Then loaded on ships.At that time Bangor Maine was the richest city in the U.S. maybe the world, 265 saw mills on the river from Old Town to Bangor, about 15 miles. Eventually they built dams and reversed the flow of water that ran north. The trains became obsolete. You missed all the rail cars on a side spur in the same area. Further out on the rail line from there, out over the lake, you can see where they dumped the logs in the lake. Last I heard they were trying to semi restore some of the equipment. It really is in the middle of no where. Probably 150 or more miles from Bangor. Many miles of dirt logging roads and then trails.

  • @WESTOFEDEN71

    @WESTOFEDEN71

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome wonder if there's any old tv footage of it all. I'd bet one day (hopefully) someone will.come along and do a full restoration

  • @dewhittjames

    @dewhittjames

    4 жыл бұрын

    How many other rail cars are there other than the locomotives themselves? Lots of parts are needed. The passenger cars, box cars, cabooses themselves could be airlifted out. It cool to have locomotives and tenders but you need to have the rest of the train. I'm sure the switches and signs are equally valuable. Actually all the parts of even the mills themselves and quarters are worth something to some community looking to preserve a time in history and generate tourism. History is rusting through our fingers. Do it for your great grand kids educations, 150 to 200 years from now. 60 years from now you will regret that you did nothing.

  • @theguyinmaine

    @theguyinmaine

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dewhittjames There where maybe 6 cars. Flat beds with wood sides, looked like for hauling logs or 4' pulp wood. They are in a line tucked in the wood near the locomotives and on a track. It's all grown up around them. Can't remember a caboose, probably no need since they had a short haul just moving wood. there is also a big wood structure along the water with tracks on it, I believe thats where they dumped the wood in the lake for it's trip down river.

  • @theguyinmaine

    @theguyinmaine

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@WESTOFEDEN71 There should be footage of the last log drive on Machias River. I think on youtube. It was considered bad for the environment, so they built roads all over the woods, along the river, cut trees and dug pits for gravel to do it. What was worse? Might look up log booms too. millions of board feet of logs circled by cable being pulled by steam ships across lakes.

  • @theguyinmaine

    @theguyinmaine

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@WESTOFEDEN71 start here kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWGZtpafnbDLfc4.html

  • @SirFowler1
    @SirFowler17 жыл бұрын

    "they're not trains they're locomotives" *THIS GUY GETS IT*

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow4487 жыл бұрын

    My first job out of high school was working on log rafts sorting out logs to be processed by the paper mill near my home. We used small work boats and pushed the bundles of logs to the sorting area where we unstrapped the logs. I ran on the logs while wearing 'caulk boots', pronounced 'cork' boots. They have dozens of small metal spikes to grip on the bark of the logs. I used a 15 foot pike pole to push the logs into position for the crane to lift them into the mill. We stayed on the river during the entire shift. Had a floating lunch shack and toilet. The best part was the fact my grandfather did the same type of work back in the 1920's and 1930's. Those jobs are gone now, but I look back fondly on those evenings running on the rafts in the bay near my home.

  • @FloatingOrbProductions

    @FloatingOrbProductions

    7 жыл бұрын

    That is an incredible story. Interesting how quickly everything changes

  • @briangarrow448

    @briangarrow448

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes. I caught the very end of the waterway transportation of forest products to the mills back in the mid 70's. Ironically enough, my next job was setting chokers for a helicopter logging company on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. And that was cutting edge technology for its time. Now I raise vegetables and spoil grandchildren. Thank you for prompting some wonderful memories. I wish you many exciting adventures. And keep posting them for folks like me, who love to see them.

  • @FloatingOrbProductions

    @FloatingOrbProductions

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your comments Brian

  • @simondaddy1

    @simondaddy1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @Jubernack

    @Jubernack

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rip trains

  • @justyouraveragedoughboy9146
    @justyouraveragedoughboy91464 жыл бұрын

    The one with the cab is a 1911 Baldwin 2-8-0 logging locomotive that was EX-NYC, it sank in the mud. An had new tracks and roadbed built under it. It is up to the state of Maine to remove and restore the locomotive. Due to Maine owning the locomotive The one with no cab is a Baldwin 4-8-0 Ten wheeler that has a unknown year and origin, the tracks and roadbed were also rebuilt. I did my hardest research on this locomotive and it was really hard to find the name and model of this locomotive. If you have anymore to add on, then comment below.

  • @dominicpryor8444
    @dominicpryor84447 жыл бұрын

    Your my hero for playing thomas the dank engine.

  • @idontexist3514

    @idontexist3514

    7 жыл бұрын

    Dominic Pryor fr tho I respect you

  • @jacktheguy3166

    @jacktheguy3166

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dominic Pryor you are weird

  • @lurkenvoncurken518

    @lurkenvoncurken518

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fedora of to you,mate

  • @ChowderTDMOFCAL

    @ChowderTDMOFCAL

    4 жыл бұрын

    Right here!

  • @majorkilljoy

    @majorkilljoy

    4 жыл бұрын

    good british export is Thomas the tank lol finest childrens creation in the world

  • @peruprofundodance
    @peruprofundodance7 жыл бұрын

    vid came up on my recommend feed. isn't it amazing to find stuff like this out there? our world is awesome.

  • @meganmetcalf6719

    @meganmetcalf6719

    6 жыл бұрын

    ron s I'm mmbn

  • @maggiesjourney3877
    @maggiesjourney38777 жыл бұрын

    I remember going exploring in the 80s and coming upon abandoned tracks and vehicles in the middle of nowhere. Love your videos.

  • @mikepech1648
    @mikepech16485 жыл бұрын

    We need more videos like this to show our kids and grandchildren what life was like before public transportation ,malls, and cars. The things that are taken for granted now. Someone started this country with hard work and a vision.

  • @Eibmozluver
    @Eibmozluver7 жыл бұрын

    Dude you had me at paper maps!

  • @BiscuitCatProductions
    @BiscuitCatProductions7 жыл бұрын

    OH MY GOD YOU ACTUALLY NOTED THAT THE PROPER TERM IS LOCOMOTIVE

  • @colinjohnston8519

    @colinjohnston8519

    6 жыл бұрын

    Easily excited aren't you?

  • @jackreacher874

    @jackreacher874

    6 жыл бұрын

    His point when people are sensitive about the term... lol

  • @jackielinde7568

    @jackielinde7568

    5 жыл бұрын

    He still missed all of the terms for the switch. Couldn't tell in the video if that was a real switch, or just a sign. (Didn't see the frog for a switch.)

  • @wiktorgorowski8551

    @wiktorgorowski8551

    5 жыл бұрын

    HE SAYED TRAIN TRACKS REEEEEEEEEES

  • @michaelnaisbitt1639

    @michaelnaisbitt1639

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why do you get so upset/excited when he says trains/locomotives. Are there more important things in your life??? Who cares about nonchmenture any way They are just going to rust into the ground

  • @dwtrksvc
    @dwtrksvc7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making the video. Being a New England guy I can appreciate the history of the area and it breaks my heart to see those once proud iron giants just dying alone in the forest.

  • @SamHarrisonMusic
    @SamHarrisonMusic4 жыл бұрын

    They're very beautiful in that forest, but it would be amazing to see them preserved, they must be pretty rare now. Wow!

  • @safarijackxx
    @safarijackxx7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Dylan, and Kelsea for making, and posting this video for those of us that can't make the journey to see for ourselves!

  • @vintagecardcurator
    @vintagecardcurator4 жыл бұрын

    Love your enthusiasm. I’ve been wanting to see those locomotives for years.

  • @Nirrrina
    @Nirrrina6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for going out there and video taping it. I love all the extra history information as well. If you didn't do this i would have never gotten to see this. I'd love to go out there but between severe fibromyalgia (chronic pain) and more importantly my lack of funds I don't think that's going to happen. It's nice to see that someone is out there partially maintaining the area for visitors. And thanks to KZread and guys like you I can explore from home. And you provide all the needed information needed to have any clue what's ever of what things are for or rather were for. Plus after abandoning my cats for two weeks at Christmas they won't let me leave again. Ever.

  • @svennorman9138
    @svennorman91386 жыл бұрын

    I visited these 40 years ago and still have pictures. We canoed in from the south end of Eagle lake, fished and camped for a week. Thanks for the video, brings back memories.

  • @Yugoslavz
    @Yugoslavz7 жыл бұрын

    it's kinda peaceful to see machines rust away and taken over by nature

  • @pinkamenadianepie8609

    @pinkamenadianepie8609

    7 жыл бұрын

    bravebluespino me exactly , there's something just beautiful about the abandoned world , probably peace of both worlds? Plant and metal

  • @larrywiggins672

    @larrywiggins672

    6 жыл бұрын

    bravebluespino me I

  • @floridanature365

    @floridanature365

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @Harper14Racing
    @Harper14Racing5 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate you sharing this! I'm in Alabama so i doubt i'll ever be able to go visit these in person. I think it's sad that before our cell phones and the technology were used to having now, people actually had to have a lot of ingenuity to be able to design and bring to life things like those locomotives that rarely exist now. Again thank you for your video!

  • @JoeySvitek
    @JoeySvitek7 жыл бұрын

    This is both cool and sad. It breaks my heart seeing these once beautiful locomotives reduced to rusting hulks, but it's also beautiful to see how nature has taken over. I especially loved the shot of the tree growing around the wheel.

  • @dilligaffubar2717
    @dilligaffubar27174 жыл бұрын

    Be good for another episode of "will it run?"

  • @jmtrainz2582

    @jmtrainz2582

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kaboom

  • @dilo3354
    @dilo33546 жыл бұрын

    My Boy Scout troop did some brush clearing at this place

  • @rogerfischer2533
    @rogerfischer25337 жыл бұрын

    First time viewer of your video's...I am home alot do to my health it's an Awsome way to see these places...Thank you....

  • @longthornhenderson331

    @longthornhenderson331

    6 жыл бұрын

    👙💙👌

  • @lindarobinson195

    @lindarobinson195

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can walk a little with two canes or a Walker wish I could walk and run out of the rain yours evans w Robinson

  • @JOYOUSONEX
    @JOYOUSONEX4 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating that you tracked down the location of these decaying locomotives. I appreciate your considerable efforts.

  • @pierreklee7490
    @pierreklee74907 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! I am a train fanatic. Thank you for taking the time to make this!

  • @RumfordBranchProductions
    @RumfordBranchProductions7 жыл бұрын

    Nice video of the two steam locomotives hiding in the woods! I live about 3 hours away from those locomotives.

  • @birdsfan3705
    @birdsfan37054 жыл бұрын

    Dude those should be in a museum!

  • @dillonmcannnell

    @dillonmcannnell

    4 жыл бұрын

    There are to stay in the woods ..they are a monument to the great loggers of northern Maine I love in northern Maine them staying where there are mean alot to us mainers

  • @halo-sd5qe

    @halo-sd5qe

    4 жыл бұрын

    How the hell would they get them out? There’s no roads, the railroad is either gone or beyond operating condition, and even if you did have a truck or something you couldn’t get it through the forest

  • @LiamKowalczyk
    @LiamKowalczyk8 жыл бұрын

    Dude I haven't been on your channel in a while, but I've been here since a couple hundred subs. The aesthetic of your vlogs have totally changed, and I totally love it. Amazing job, dude. Can't wait to see more. Good luck on the amazing adventure you get to call life.

  • @nightlessmedia9473
    @nightlessmedia94734 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see this randomly popped up on other peoples recommended videos as well

  • @fourspooks4518
    @fourspooks45184 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see something in the US that is not covered in graffiti, splendid video Thanks.

  • @RLNTEX
    @RLNTEX7 жыл бұрын

    Great video Dylan, I loved it and the background music was wonderful.

  • @carldodge399

    @carldodge399

    7 жыл бұрын

    Robert Nun'ya

  • @sdrfz

    @sdrfz

    7 жыл бұрын

    Really well shot and edited. Your camera person is very talented.

  • @thewhiplash8529
    @thewhiplash85296 жыл бұрын

    I'm happy to forgive the lack of proper terms on some names of parts...he did a lot of work to get to that location to show everyone these amazing old locomotives. Thanks for your efforts!

  • @Ballenxj
    @Ballenxj7 жыл бұрын

    AWESOME Dylan! I appreciate being able to see this bit of Americana, and I love old Steam Locomotives and Engines. Gotta leave a thumbs up for this.

  • @deepwater2652
    @deepwater26524 жыл бұрын

    Looks like the area around them has been maintained.

  • @TheRealCaptainFreedom
    @TheRealCaptainFreedom4 жыл бұрын

    6:30 Yo that’s a steam donkey.

  • @robinforrest7680

    @robinforrest7680

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stationary steam engines. Originally they were probably decommissioned locomotives themselves converted to stationary units to provide power for logging equipment or other industries. This often happened and several really ancient locos have been found this way. These were probably early locos from the 1860's to '70's. By the early 1900's they'd have been too small for the trains which had become too heavy for them, so they got themselves a second life as power plants. They might even have been the predecessors of the locos you found

  • @AFreshmanPerspective
    @AFreshmanPerspective7 жыл бұрын

    Really well done production Dylan. Great camerawork, great music, great little history lesson, great adventure. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!

  • @ralvieh2000
    @ralvieh20007 жыл бұрын

    Hi Dylan, thanks for all the effort you put into the making of these Videos!You also provide alot of information besides about the History behind all of it!Great work from great guys!Keep up the good Spirit!

  • @warrenadams45
    @warrenadams458 жыл бұрын

    be nice to restore the trains back to their former Beauty

  • @mitchellhogg4627

    @mitchellhogg4627

    7 жыл бұрын

    Warren Adams i think nature's taken them past the point of no return...

  • @jcgamer892

    @jcgamer892

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mitchell Hogg they're still salvageable...at least one anyway. couldn't get a good look at the other one. hell, one still has the drainage pipe and that's usually one of the first things to rust off

  • @seanyazzie8191

    @seanyazzie8191

    7 жыл бұрын

    Warren Adams Well these locomotives can be restored. They aren't pass the point of no return. In fact, it seems only a few of the parts need replacing or restoration. I've seen locomotives in a EVEN worst state than these ones. For example, there was a Scrap yard in the U.K. called Barry Island. A couple hundred withdrawn locomotives ended up there and were ,Oddly, left to rust away instead of being scrapped. I suggest you Google some images of the old scrap yard, you won't believe how badly the engines looked in the yard. And what's even more unbelievable is that over 2/3rds of locomotives were restored and are currently still in use today.

  • @yellowstonethepony7769

    @yellowstonethepony7769

    7 жыл бұрын

    I like trains. And know al lot about them. These engines are far beyond state of repair. its just better to let them sit there.

  • @that_dude_with_the_torino1171

    @that_dude_with_the_torino1171

    7 жыл бұрын

    Even if these engines were able to be restored, I don't see a way to get them out of there without chopping down thousands of trees or air lifting them. And, well, air lifting a steam engine is a stretch. I think it's best that they are left there as a relic of the past

  • @kscotthoy
    @kscotthoy7 жыл бұрын

    I gave it a thumbs up, even though the man bun was nearly unbearable to watch.

  • @WillyMcCoy50

    @WillyMcCoy50

    4 жыл бұрын

    Almost a relief when he put that towel on it .... but the bun remained underneath it all.

  • @tomjones3629

    @tomjones3629

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Dave Potter awwwww poor snowflake

  • @kyleglenn2434

    @kyleglenn2434

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know it's hard to get used to, but the man bun is a thing.

  • @sarahdeshay1394

    @sarahdeshay1394

    4 жыл бұрын

    Get a life, he gave you something you would never have found out for yourself.

  • @nimbly1693

    @nimbly1693

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for saying so!

  • @katherineolsson2513
    @katherineolsson25133 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for calling them locomotives and being concise, and not mislabeling what you saw. There are some you tube videos of this marvelous place in history, and they have no idea what they are seeing, mislabeling items. Thank you for encouraging, yet not misinforming your views of what they are observing.

  • @MJ-bz3yv
    @MJ-bz3yv4 жыл бұрын

    As "engine" is a synonym for "locomotive," a diesel engine in a locomotive is often referred to as the "prime mover." This eliminates the ambiguity between "engine" and "locomotive" and differentiates the main engine from any auxiliary ones, such as those used to produce head-end power on some passenger units.

  • @thinklikeido
    @thinklikeido7 жыл бұрын

    I love stuff like this, thanks!

  • @TheKaimanguy
    @TheKaimanguy7 жыл бұрын

    This video was really well done, good job.

  • @epasko5713
    @epasko57134 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for making that hike and filming for us! great history there..

  • @ronsindric4241
    @ronsindric42414 жыл бұрын

    I used to work as a Counselor / Photog in a Maine Summer Camp. Have sent this vid's link to the camp. Hopefully, the Campers will visit the site. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS AMAZING VID. Maybe you could do some exploring and find other cool and little Northern Maine Sitez; logging camps, abandoned lumbering, farming and mining towns. Wouldn't be great to find an abandoned town with a grass runwayed airport with some abandoned cars and planes left behind !

  • @DylanTaylor
    @DylanTaylor6 жыл бұрын

    Is that a historical site? There were trails that looked well used and there was a plaque with a description on it about the log carts.

  • @connortruman3906

    @connortruman3906

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dylan Taylor yes it is

  • @vjones9606

    @vjones9606

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes it is a historic site. The title of "lost locomotives" is a farce as u can see. This site is one of many in the great north woods.

  • @sjwhitney
    @sjwhitney7 жыл бұрын

    I don't have time to scroll through all the comments to see if this is already there. However, the locomotives are former New York Central and last belonged to the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad. They were brought in by skidding them over the frozen lakes. There used to be an enginehouse and the locos were intact. However, a dunderheaded park service employee misunderstood his instructions when he was told to torch all the old buildings at the logging camp. He was NOT supposed to torch the enginehouse. So there they sit and rot exposed to the elements with all their wood burned off.

  • @All-the-wonderful-stars

    @All-the-wonderful-stars

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's not every day that the National Park Service Destroys a historic landmark

  • @FutureRailProductions

    @FutureRailProductions

    6 жыл бұрын

    sjwhitney Maybe that's how they get them out of there to be restored for static display. Wait till winter comes the lake freezes then skate the engines across the lake. Then bring back building materials to build a new Roundhouse and then bring the engines back after being restored and put them in the new Roundhouse.

  • @sean-mv8fz

    @sean-mv8fz

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wow.

  • @dragonturtle2566

    @dragonturtle2566

    5 жыл бұрын

    I kind of wish I could get them out of there, a much better service could be used in my local town where the old B&O line runs through with a restored station as well. They would love to have a classic 2-8-0 repainted and re-numbered to fit the setting. After all these are going to just rot away, it's best to utilize them in a better fashion where people will treat them as they are meant to be treated. All I would need is one, and preferably the one with cab intact.

  • @timshuman5464
    @timshuman54646 жыл бұрын

    Brings back a lot of good memories of when I did the complete Allagash Waterway 30 years ago. We had to portage at this point between Chamberlain and Eagle Lake. I see they have done some work there to show how the process worked.

  • @sagrammyfour
    @sagrammyfour7 жыл бұрын

    Dylan: You are a true artist with your voice, your camera, and your sense of adventure and imagination.

  • @kaydensrailway5594
    @kaydensrailway55944 жыл бұрын

    We should rescue them and restore them to working condition!

  • @glasslinger

    @glasslinger

    4 жыл бұрын

    Even from the video it was evident they had been stripped quite a bit. No parts for those left any more.

  • @dillonmcannnell

    @dillonmcannnell

    4 жыл бұрын

    As somebody that lives in Maine you can leave my states trains alone. They are there as a monument to the loggers such as my grandfather and great uncle's

  • @timspiers6225

    @timspiers6225

    4 жыл бұрын

    They could do with having some conservation work done on them otherwise they will just rust away and become dangerous.

  • @steffenrosmus1864

    @steffenrosmus1864

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thst would mean built them newexsp the boiler The only parts you could use are the wheelsets. App 500 grand per engine 👎

  • @alanmcculloch8775

    @alanmcculloch8775

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Old Iron Building new ones would be a lot cheaper and more practical. The blue prints are most likely available some where or measurements could be taken from the originals.

  • @jasonwaycott8829
    @jasonwaycott88297 жыл бұрын

    I live about an hrs or so away and never had heard about this.gonna have to check it out.thanx from Bangor Maine

  • @FloatingOrbProductions

    @FloatingOrbProductions

    7 жыл бұрын

    Do it Jason!

  • @scottcarson4570

    @scottcarson4570

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol. Jason..you are like 4 hours away from Bangor..Don't plan on a hour. Js

  • @toddbloomer2769
    @toddbloomer27697 жыл бұрын

    Hey Dylan, this is the first time I've seen one of your videos and I have to say it was a pretty awesome adventure. I've been fascinated with trains/locomotives (😉) since I was a child; specifically steam locomotives. So being able to see something like this - in person or otherwise - is truly amazing. Thank you so much for posting this video, because it documents some of America's lost history.

  • @GrnArrow092
    @GrnArrow0927 жыл бұрын

    These locomotives are relics of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad. It was a 13 mile long railroad that hauled timber from the Allagash region of northern Maine. It ran from 1927 to 1933. During the great depression, demand for paper dramatically decreased and the railroad was mothballed in 1933. Great Northern Paper, which owned and operated the railroad, found it more economical to ship by using trucks when business returned after World War II. It became a popular destination for snowmobilers in the 1960's, becoming the victims of relic seekers. In 1969, the shed the locomotives were stored in was burned to the ground. That also destroyed the wooden cab of one of the locomotives. Since then, the locomotives have been left to the elements. Currently, the locomotives and nearby tramway are owned by the State of Maine Department of Conservation and are being preserved in their current state as a historic site and a testament to Maine's logging heritage.

  • @RetroDodo
    @RetroDodo8 жыл бұрын

    Great video Dylan, well edited too!

  • @FloatingOrbProductions

    @FloatingOrbProductions

    8 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mate

  • @kieranbricker3278

    @kieranbricker3278

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dylan Magaster you should find abandoned passenger cars and change them to a cottage

  • @brianberthold3118

    @brianberthold3118

    6 жыл бұрын

    and ripe with wrong info

  • @SomariTheAdventurerJam6

    @SomariTheAdventurerJam6

    6 жыл бұрын

    1:14 to 1:26 1:51 to 2:21 Thomas the dank engine

  • @CKPacificRailroad
    @CKPacificRailroad4 жыл бұрын

    This is a railfans dream right here.

  • @BlueAustinMaxi

    @BlueAustinMaxi

    4 жыл бұрын

    CK Pacific Railroad, I’ve been and honestly it really is, I feel super lucky to live near there

  • @cherokeecoyoteoffical4625

    @cherokeecoyoteoffical4625

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@BlueAustinMaxi is your profile pic of Odin wolf

  • @BlueAustinMaxi
    @BlueAustinMaxi5 жыл бұрын

    As of growing up in Maine and still living in Maine this makes me happy I am definitely going there

  • @DangardsBrain
    @DangardsBrain7 жыл бұрын

    Cue the Sarah McLachlan song,"along with the narrator saying: "You can feed this abandoned locomotive for just 80 cents a day...."

  • @aidanbailey8614
    @aidanbailey86147 жыл бұрын

    And bro it's called the firebox not a furnace

  • @owenmeschter9888

    @owenmeschter9888

    7 жыл бұрын

    Eh either works

  • @aidanbailey8614

    @aidanbailey8614

    7 жыл бұрын

    No not really

  • @TwinsFun

    @TwinsFun

    7 жыл бұрын

    Owen Meschter yeah not really a furnace.

  • @lennoxpurinton9059

    @lennoxpurinton9059

    7 жыл бұрын

    yeah it's a firebox.

  • @renegadeoflife87

    @renegadeoflife87

    7 жыл бұрын

    Firebox in American terminology, Furnace in european terminology. I don't think these are all that abandoned either. Someone has been grooming the trail that leads to them, and the grass around them seems awful short- I would expect it to have grown up considerably more with shrubs and saplings emerging from it. Just, restoring one of these costs a ton of money. And if they aren't particularly rare or valuable, there they sit waiting for someone to retrieve them.

  • @angelicamonk7058
    @angelicamonk70584 жыл бұрын

    HEARTBREAKING 😔😔 ... that's when poverty started in AMERICA when the Diesel killed the steam engine .

  • @briandonlin9321

    @briandonlin9321

    4 жыл бұрын

    How about the farm tractor?

  • @angelicamonk7058

    @angelicamonk7058

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@briandonlin9321 well the steam engines used branch lines you see .. branching off to small towns and picking up what farmers wanted to sale ..it was a team thing , everyone on same page of living .. now eggs come from states over verses the next town as an example... Yeah the steam tractor followed for sure sadly 😔 . Big Oil killed the American Dream in sooooo many ways it's surreal.

  • @angelicamonk7058

    @angelicamonk7058

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@briandonlin9321 if you are familiar with Thomas the Tank Engine , Diesel 10 was the EVIL that made Soo much die " DIEsel" 😔🙁

  • @robertthomas5906

    @robertthomas5906

    4 жыл бұрын

    They still roam around. The D&SNG in Colorado. Some others. Even Big Boy ran this last year. Good old 4014.

  • @brendanray3186
    @brendanray31867 жыл бұрын

    it's so serene and intriguing to see this, tysm for uploading this. It just has this nice feeling in the forest and its really nostaglic in a certain way in videos like this.

  • @joaoalbuquerque8918
    @joaoalbuquerque89188 жыл бұрын

    Great blog Dylan,you´re such an inspiration! Keep up the good work!

  • @matthewsweeney7837
    @matthewsweeney78377 жыл бұрын

    beautiful place. I visited those locomotives as a teenager

  • @daveygivens735
    @daveygivens7354 жыл бұрын

    'They're not trains, they're locomotives". Judges would also have accepted "Choo-choos".

  • @angelicamonk7058
    @angelicamonk70584 жыл бұрын

    Very Nice Footage you provided here with this video. My son who is 19 now knows everything about the era and has taught me so much. A part of America History rarely ever spoke about .

  • @lucky-rowe2623
    @lucky-rowe26236 жыл бұрын

    Normally I could careless about an old "train" , but this was so cool. I really enjoyed this well made video. Thank you for broadening my interests in the American history .

  • @claymcnamee6796
    @claymcnamee67967 жыл бұрын

    i live in Fort Kent Maine and i toke a trip to Van Buren and on the way there i seen 37 abandoned homes on rte 1 i think you shoued go see them

  • @1Klooch
    @1Klooch7 жыл бұрын

    Nice presentation. Well done!

  • @recreation484
    @recreation4844 жыл бұрын

    Cool. It is amazing to find historical locomotives in the woods. Wish I can start the service back in the woods.

  • @Weffi76
    @Weffi766 жыл бұрын

    where I live in Finland we have one of those old locomotives, running every summer for a few days, for people to get some nostalgia, we also have one standing at our train station for display.

  • @krishinrichs143

    @krishinrichs143

    4 жыл бұрын

    POST A VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @NowAndyPlays
    @NowAndyPlays7 жыл бұрын

    It is called a "boiler" it boiles water not a "combustion chamber"

  • @CSX4772

    @CSX4772

    7 жыл бұрын

    Andy Play's [BogAco] actually, water doesn't boil in a boiler. the pressure is too high. it really flashes to stream

  • @NowAndyPlays

    @NowAndyPlays

    7 жыл бұрын

    Johnnie Williams The action of the water transitioning into steam is "boiling"

  • @CSX4772

    @CSX4772

    7 жыл бұрын

    No, not in a boiler. It's a misnomer. Under normal atmospheric pressure of 14.7 PSI, water vaporizes throughout to turn to steam. In steam engines, pressure is usually at 100 or more PSI. Water is not boiling, rather, the steam and water are at the same temperature, therefore, the water flashes into steam. So, usually the water and steam might be at 3 or 4 hundred degrees.

  • @bobbrawley9439

    @bobbrawley9439

    7 жыл бұрын

    Andy [Xvixx] Our host is sort of clueless but he did take us to the site which I wouldn't have known now about with out his video

  • @mikebockey4125

    @mikebockey4125

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bob Brawley, clueless enough to be out in the world seeing and doing things. what’s your excuse?

  • @badboygreene007
    @badboygreene0078 жыл бұрын

    great stuff,,love to see that place,but i am far away in uk,keep up the good work

  • @rweems5796
    @rweems57965 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the abandoned-locomotive story! Wonderfully presented and I’m exceptionally envious of your adventure. Maybe one day...

  • @avlisk
    @avlisk7 жыл бұрын

    A great adventure video. The choo-choo trains may be old, but they are so cute!

  • @sakeeler
    @sakeeler4 жыл бұрын

    Good to see that toll money going to good use on the roads...

  • @HaveabananaProductions
    @HaveabananaProductions7 жыл бұрын

    I visited them on my trip up the Alagash

  • @chrisyost8167
    @chrisyost81677 жыл бұрын

    That was an amazing find, and fun. How did you ever find out about these?

  • @InfamousCrimeLocations
    @InfamousCrimeLocations7 жыл бұрын

    Nice Dylan! Just subbed. Keep it up. Love abandoned videos. :)

  • @CJamesGoode
    @CJamesGoode7 жыл бұрын

    It makes me sad to see those beautiful Steam Engines in that state. Sadder yet knowing they one day will only be a red stain in the Forrest. They are beyond saving, might be able to use them as patterns for a rails up build, but I think that they even beyond that as well..

  • @jcgamer892

    @jcgamer892

    7 жыл бұрын

    James Goode eh maybe but I've seen locos in far worse condition get restored. It all depends on what shape the frame is in edit:and how money your willing to spend

  • @astout94

    @astout94

    7 жыл бұрын

    James Goode it's very sad to see history rot away but one day we're all going to be red stains in the forest. Just enjoy the journey while you can.

  • @renegadeoflife87

    @renegadeoflife87

    7 жыл бұрын

    The boilers in those are almost certainly done for just by safety concerns alone, but you probably could fit a new boiler onto the original frames and make them run again. Just needs a big wallet is all.

  • @playfullburito
    @playfullburito6 жыл бұрын

    Did you get stuck in the rain?

  • @MrNoUsername
    @MrNoUsername3 жыл бұрын

    3:09 Thank you, THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH for addressing this. I'm tired of people saying trains when referring to the locomotives

  • @netw3rkd
    @netw3rkd4 жыл бұрын

    Reason for checkpoint's isn't just to maintain the road's. That log truck you went by, is upwards of 13 feet wide, and the roads beyond the gate are privately owned by the logging companies. So it's a safety thing to account for who's going where. Should have a MURS radio too if you're running those roads, maps like you said, good idea. People down below don't realize, it's literally in the middle of the woods, cellphone coverage is nonexistent. But there's plenty of great fishing holes, so that makes up for it in my book. Thanks for visiting Maine and sharing these Loco's. Been awhile since I've seen 'em.

  • @artybuttonusa9974
    @artybuttonusa99747 жыл бұрын

    they should make the area were the trains are a museum

  • @126Edward

    @126Edward

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy Kamande agree with u. This woods are full with awesome stuff which we must preserve for following generations.

  • @pinkamenadianepie8609

    @pinkamenadianepie8609

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy Kamande technically the forest is a museum of the abandoned world , for us to enjoy and explore , like how many museums on earth have restored trains and restored stuff it just gets boring , all the same , yet this is different

  • @JSmith-lq2fw

    @JSmith-lq2fw

    6 жыл бұрын

    They have museums like this where the trains have actually been cared for over the last century and many of them still operate as tourist attractions.

  • @MrMohshehab
    @MrMohshehab8 жыл бұрын

    Dylan , who was filming u all along ? .. He doesn't seem to have a voice .

  • @FloatingOrbProductions

    @FloatingOrbProductions

    8 жыл бұрын

    My friend Kelsea was filming. Specifics about the films are always in the description! 😁

  • @broodygrue6177

    @broodygrue6177

    7 жыл бұрын

    that was rly bugging me also, I didnt know if you were alone or with someone else

  • @bigbill2444

    @bigbill2444

    7 жыл бұрын

    I kinda figured when both his hands were showing, and the camera was moving, another person had to be there.

  • @colinjohnston8519

    @colinjohnston8519

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure they do have a voice but it wasn't needed for this video..

  • @swiley223

    @swiley223

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dylan Magaster it was like I was a kid on the woods of WV again, beautifully shot and edited. We have a long extractive history here too and lots of rusty stuff in the woods as well. Nice job!

  • @billharmes8770
    @billharmes87705 жыл бұрын

    Pretty cool Dylan. I come from a rairoading family in Colorado so I appreciate seeing RR history no matter where its at. Good Job

  • @parkerw1640
    @parkerw16406 жыл бұрын

    Thomas the tank engine...THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have cured my everything

  • @mousepat9371
    @mousepat93716 жыл бұрын

    those two loco are just like brothers build together dies together

  • @driveventures7445
    @driveventures74456 жыл бұрын

    How much trouble would one get into if they say,fired one up and got it out?????........ ;)

  • @CheeseMiser

    @CheeseMiser

    5 жыл бұрын

    Do u even know how a locomotive works

  • @ToyBJ

    @ToyBJ

    5 жыл бұрын

    IF ! There was still water in the boiler or the tender and IF ! You got it up to operating temp/pressure I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near that old boiler when it let go !

  • @calvinthedestroyer

    @calvinthedestroyer

    5 жыл бұрын

    bring a large air tank just to move it, but even then, there's too much rust and missing parts

  • @cadillacjack7313
    @cadillacjack73134 жыл бұрын

    There's just something about those old locomotives that just makes them look so awesome. I swear everything in the old days looked awesome compared to today. Be nice to maintain them if they are just sitting there so that they don't just rust into the ground.

  • @jordan6049
    @jordan60497 жыл бұрын

    Your on the allagash!! I was on the waterway last summer one of the most amazing experiences of all time! I am doing the Penobscot this summer and am super excited!

  • @Matthewmodeller229
    @Matthewmodeller2297 жыл бұрын

    Where is this place? I must go but I've no idea where to start

  • @jerryw2314

    @jerryw2314

    7 жыл бұрын

    Not sure, but on Google Earth between Lake Chamberlin and Eagle Lake there is a reference point. It says "The Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad" I think this is where Dylan went. I would like to go too.

  • @jordan6049

    @jordan6049

    7 жыл бұрын

    Matthewmodeller229 it's on the allagash wilderness waterway, I suggest canoeing the water way and making this one of your stops! One of the most amazing experiences of my life

  • @elijahperron1172

    @elijahperron1172

    6 жыл бұрын

    On a snowmobile its way easier to get there I could explain it better that way because you can cross chamberlain lake instead of going all around it (FYI the trains look way better with snow on the ground)

  • @gtc1961
    @gtc19616 жыл бұрын

    OK, confused by one thing...you went though all that hassle to get to those locomotives but when you got there it looked like a sort of museum with equipment and signs describing what was there. Why would that be? Shouldn't there be a more accessible way to get to that site?

  • @groenekever

    @groenekever

    5 жыл бұрын

    yep by rail

  • @mrmd8819

    @mrmd8819

    5 жыл бұрын

    Some good things you've got to want / work for. If they were easily accessible there would be tour buses and parking lots which would kill the hidden beauty of it and just make them " old trains on the side of the road "

  • @ted8777
    @ted87776 жыл бұрын

    In 1972 I was 14 and in the Boy Scouts, my cousins in the Sea Explorers. We went on a 90 mile canoe trip on the Alagash river, started at Telos Landing and canoed to the St. Johns river on the Canadian U.S. border. During the excursion we were informed of the abandoned trains. We set up camp where we were able to have a short hike to the trains. It is a captivating sight walking and all of a sudden two locomotives in the middle of nowhere appear. I seem to remember more woods around them and looks like some clearing was done to help them last a bit longer. If they were in the canopy of the trees lichens and moss would deteriorate the locomotives quicker. Want to return someday.

  • @fibromighty
    @fibromighty8 жыл бұрын

    Hi Dylan, I would love to see you, Josh from Exploring With Josh, & FunForLouis all travel together! I love all three of y'alls videos & travel Vlogs. Keep up the great work man!

  • @JellyScrub
    @JellyScrub7 жыл бұрын

    It makes me so sad seeing abandoned railways :(

  • @joshuaachors2954
    @joshuaachors29546 жыл бұрын

    Looks like Michigan roads...

  • @Hoveyish
    @Hoveyish7 жыл бұрын

    Great video, Bro! I love your spirit of adventure and music selections well! Thanks for showing us this! I lived in Maine for years and never knew about this place!

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