Lost Train Cars in the Desert

[Music] so this then would be where they would pull up and have water yeah yeah this would be the water Filling Station big old water tower yeah still at the pipe going all the way up and a huge pack Rat's Nest so where okay where would the actual water be in a holding tank up top the pl form there would be a tank up there okay and then obviously you can see where the train tracks are they're pretty massive things and then they'd have one of those things like this don't they where they put the water in the the engine well you see here how the pipe comes out and it would be like a a tube a little tube come out I believe yeah you start to think I mean the size of it obviously the amount of water they would have in here kind of like a head frame they build up very sterle it just reminds me of those you remember those old black and white movies with like Charlie Chapin and they're running along and all the old cabs and they jump on one of those things and it starts swinging swing around and then jump back on the back side of very cool bird's nest H yeah rat would you look at the size of that rat's Nest that's huge considering it's outside look what I found geological marker survey 1975 so I wonder why this train cart isn't actually on the track number 116 one wait 11 167 yeah 1167 so is that November of 1967 no I don't think so so these carts were used to carry copper ore from the town of Ruth to the Cobra Cobra I don't know how to pronounce it interchange back in the day okay so this would be filled with copper ore so I wonder what this is I say it it's all over been spilled all over here it can't be copper it can't be all though no I would imagine if this is copper or they would have been using it yeah huh and it looks like there are several more in the distance yep and it's funny cuz whenever I see deserted railway lines like this again reminds me of those black and white movies where you've got the maiden and she's like oh and there's a train coming [Music] and the horse riders got to beat the train to go on Tire yeah yeah [Music] can still read uh some of the writing on there Minneapolis and St Louis Lou yep now is it St Louis or St Louis it depends on where you're uh you're from cuz I think a lot of people say St Louis but yes see now from England I was always thought it was St Louis but yeah you know I say Nevada always getting told off for that let's check these out then wonder if there's anything inside oh wow Reliance these are remarkably intact I know they're in fantastic condition well shall we climb up and see if there's anything left in shall I go first just in case I need a bunk cup yeah so you can go that side I going go this side whoa oh it's still filled with all least gravel yeah oh okay they all are yep ow have to be careful coming down yeah wasn't expecting that you expecting it to be empty yeah or maybe some dirt or rubbish now the other thing is really cool is like all of this stuff that's still so like I said the whole system is looks to be still very much intact like this Wonder this it's oh it does open okay now being a little bit mechanically inclined I don't know a whole lot about trains I think this is like the like a journal box or something like that but basically you can still see there is like grease in there so it would it's like a greasing system for components the same like what you would do in your your vehicle you know your suspension that kind of thing you fill this up yeah you'd fill this up with oil and you'd actually put I think they put used to put Rags on the bottom to uh you know to keep the surface lubricated right cuz it's like a a bearing cap you can see basically this the cap for like bearings and things like that which you want to grease and keep going now I'm not I have virtually zero knowledge on trains but I do think that they used to use this type of bearing cap from the 1880s late 1800s right through to the 1960s well I mean yeah it's the old adage if it isn't broke don't fix it but like I said I'm still just absolutely see if I can close this again yeah it's rough just in a a of how much this is still but look at the size look at the size of the Springs I know there's four of them in here and it's one on each set of wheels it's pretty amazing isn't it and you think remarkable and you think how old these trains are or even when the locomotives first came out the old steam trains all of that was done by hand really I mean not it's it's not like today where everything is mechanically made oh somebody's put a a log on top of that uh wheel huh interesting oh you can I mean you can see that the cogs and everything my goodness that is so cool we're just having a look around at all this this is oh I've got a date on this thing here this is 1966 for this over here look at that gear in there and then the chain going through that is just so amazing I love this stuff I found a date back over there it was 1966 I've got a date here 1955 oh wow that looks like a map PL it's got something levers that say truck levers equalizer Le lever and more truck wow so trucks like the the wheels that is pretty neat and I'm just wondering whether or not those were two different dates whether or not there's a different date on this one 1966 Universal 7400 179 a a 1966 and that map of the levers kind of looks thicker as it you know it's better oh yeah a little bit more pronounced well from 55 to 66 oh yeah [Music]