Recently, I discovered the world of railroad velocipedes -- bicycles that ride the rails.What led me there was a TV reality show, "American Pickers." One of the buyers is Mike Wolfe, a bicycle enthusiast who occasionally dredges up vintage bikes; I guess that's what originally drew my interest.
Recently, he dragged a vintage railroad handcar out of a building. It was a 100-year-old one-person machine used to inspect the railroad tracks.
It occurred to me that this might be a cool way to travel on some abandoned railways that hadn't been converted to rail-to-trail bike paths. ....
Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2012/2/6/4982379.html
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