Cleaning out the basement the other day, I found this old photo that your readers might find interesting.
In the Fall of 1993, I slapped together a railbike and my twin brother Rick and I rode down the tracks from Kal Beach down past Kekuli Bay and back.
The steel rail wheels I had machined started out fairly quiet, but with every joint in the rails we passed over, they became noisier and noisier until we sounded just like a train rolling down the tracks. We had to stop every now and then and listen to make sure there wasn’t a train coming around the corner.
Twenty-five years have passed, and Rick and I (and our wives) rode the rail trail to Oyama and back in September of this year, rekindling fond memories of our ride in 1993.
Randy Schellenberg
Editor’s note: Please don’t try this at home. Rail safety is no joke. Stay off of the tracks. This was something they did 25 years ago and do not endorse for anyone else to try now. Also, when they say they rode the trail now, they mean the cycling trail that replaced the tracks.
