That is seriously cool! The concept sounds dangerous as hell, but it's so worth the awesomeness. How does it handle and turns and does it set off railway crossing switches?

Not as dangerous as you might think, as long as you stay away from active rail lines. This was built as more of an inspection vehical for a small tourist railroad and now sees service touring other tourist lines and abandoned routes.

She handles well on most types of track however it's a bit iffy if your on something like thin 90 pound per yard rail and are only using one bike because she tends to try and torque it's way around and slip off. However on 135 pound rail she runs like a champ. I never have set off a grade crossing yet but I tend to make sure I stay away from lines that have active CTC systems.

No need getting the CSX dispatchers all upset when an unknown target pops up on their board!

I'd like to see what happens when 1 is tripped just for the hell of it

Tres cool indeed! I see where you got the idea for your purple passenger train, too.

Oddly enough the purple passenger train is more due to the fact that it was the only color model paint wal-mart had on hand when I decided to make the thing one weekend.

The purple passenger car in this pic is a completely other screwed up story.

Oh? Pray do tell!

The car just ahead of the bike is an ex-Seaboard Coast Line sleeper that was later modified into a safety training car by having the guts torn out and the windows welded in. It remains in this configuration today and actually still retains the pulldown screen and film projector that was installed by SCL.

Up until a few years ago this car also had a nice white safety car paint scheme that was put on by the Seaboard System before the car was given to the museum. Over the years it got a little faded but all it really needed was a good pressure washing. However, a museum member decided on his own to give the car a new paint job.

Now somewhere in the cars history trucks marked for the ATLANTIC Coast Line were thrown under the car (considered SCL and ACL merged this would be a no brainer). However this particular member decided this meant that the coach was originally an ACL car and painted the whole thing purple in an attempt to make into a car from the ACL train "The Champion".

Problem being the car didn't need the paint job, it was the wrong color purple anyway, it was done extremely poorly and without permission, and the whole scheme was based ON THE WRONG DAMN RAILROAD!

Needless to say they didn't remain a member much longer after that.

Sheesh. Whatta maroon.

Or purple, as the case may be.

now she is a lovely Pullman green. (Claps)

I will love to have that bike.

To bad you're in Canada. I've been trying to sell this thing for months to raise money for the live steam stuff. The frame is one welded piece and to big to ship unfortunately.

what ya want for it?

I'd take $300 bucks for it now. I spent like $550 building it but I don't have anywhere to store it now.

ok atm have $0

Well I can make somthing like that.