1952 ABANDONED TRAIN WRECK! What will we find?!?

We visited the Monarch branch on the old Rio Grande just to see what we could see, and ended up finding some *REALLY* cool things we couldn't believe had been left there for 70+ years!

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Hiking Monarch, Ballast
1:24 Abandoned Water Column
3:58 Monarch Branch Overview
5:46 Wreck Site Pt. 1
8:41 Wreck Site Pt. 2
11:17 Trucks?!?
13:58 Handbrake fight
18:34 About the wreck

[BuilditFunky]

Time to dig it all out and make an "Aftermath of Derailment" display at the museum. Everything is twisted as mangled already.

[PennsyPappas]

Bretts Fiance: I bet his Bachelor Party has lots of strippers.

Brett's Party: We Have Found the Elusive DRGW Brake Wheel buried in the ground, BEHOLD its broken beauty.

[onnelli]

Rio Grande archeology was not something I expected to see, but absolutely worth watching

[desmondk-o]

something I think I *really* love about hyce's videos is that it almost never feels purely like is "I did this thing to make a youtube video" but rather "I got to do a really cool thing and I filmed it so yall can see too"

[gentlemanzer]

11:32 The long long short long car horn made me chuckle

[manas]

5:47 spirit of Kenosha playing when y'alls are in a car.. hmmm.. seems dangerous...

[thetoontrain]

11:33 the last time a crossing whistle signal was used on the monarch branch lol

[VixessRin]

I love that everyone took turns playing cameraman and all shot/did commentary differently lol. The nature documentarian commentary was only a matter of time with these guys!

[slanderedstone]

Traveling old railroad grades is the best! So cool that you found some stuff that was still there!

[NicholasAdkisson]

Its so amazing to see items left behind when the railroad rips the rails up and leaves. Truly amazing.

[OldYellowCab]

Fascinating stuff! From what I’ve heard, there’s still some wreckage on the west side of Rollins Pass where one of the 2-6-6-0s from the DNW&P ran away. Never hiked down to the wreckage itself but the coal from the tender should still be there. The engine itself (210) was written off as scrap and never made it to D&RGW ownership.

[andywomack]

I used to show my tour guests the smoke-box front cover of the Mallet 210 that ran out of control, was abandoned by the crew and became air-borne after crossing the trestle at Riflesight Notch on the Moffat while descending from the summit at Corona. It was running light at the time.

[leightonmoreland]

the two phases of the weekend "ya want some more coffee" and "KA-chow"

[Mooxystrains]

New title: 4 foamers dig up an 60+ year old train wreck to find a brake* wheel.

[perpetualpunster]

Perhaps the CRRM could have an archeological dig at that wreck site to recover artifacts for an interpretive display at the museum about the wreck and the Monarch Branch. :-)

[Jopsyduck]

That brake rigging is definitely not FUBAR because somebody recognized it.

[sargentrowell]

To whoever gifted the membership, thanks. I haven't had a membership on any YouTube channel yet, so this was a cool surprise.

[anthonycook]

6:58, bro, that is literally my everyday life as an audio engineer

[SteamfanScott]

This is such a wonderful video and so cool that you all were able to find some treasures of the Rio Grande. And to find that "homemade" bracket is so amazing, hope that it can be confirmed as to what it is. Thanks for you and the rest of the crew for bringing us along for the adventure and hope that this could maybe become sort of regular thing, where you all go exploring old rail lines and see what you can find.

And congratulations to Brett!

[mechgt]

Hearing "smells like Kenosha" as you're driving was terrifying thanks 😂