2007 footage of crazy washed out tracks, stunning river gorges, and a redwood trestle. The first part includes a short trip up the first section of track north of Ft Seward with my daughter. This was the easy part, a straight and safe section about 1 mile. The next day the footage continues where we left off. The young girl did not venture down the unsafer sections of track with us.

This footage is of the historic closed railroad taken from a modified Suzuki Samurai "rail cart". it starts north of the Fort Seward Railroad Depot and goes past the 226 mile marker north of Eel Rock (The "Begin South Fork Block/End Fort Seward Block" sign is where we start here).
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was one of the most scenic and expensive sections of railroad in US history because of the awesome scenery it offered between San Francisco and Eureka. This footage goes over a redwood trestle bridge at Brock Creek, with stunning river views around the 222 mile marker - then over tracks hanging in the air. The Samurai plows blindly and boldly through 10 foot high vegetation in a thrilling ride better than Disneyland. We were the very last "car" ever to venture up this track and it's some interesting footage. The track has long since further deteriorated with landslides and mass movement of the hillside, and the overgrowth has made it completely un-passable. Here, we had on and off track capability as some sections were subject to landslides (or a missing piece of track!) and we had to 4-wheel around some areas. On this occasion, I took the most video and we went the furthest we ever did. Cool stuff for rail buffs. There is very little record of this storied rail line on video.

00:00 - A quick look at the Samurai
01:40 - Start traveling north at 1/2 mile north of the Fort Seward Train Depot
18:22 - Redwood trestle bridge at Brock Creek
19:28 - Stunning river views around the 222 mile marker
20:30 - Tracks hanging in the air from mass movement of hillside
26:30 - Pulling a log off the tracks with a winch
28:53 - Passing the old bulldozer
30:00 - Continuing North
38:30 - Plowing through high vegetation south of Eel Rock
40:38 - Eel Rock Rd.
45:54 - Big landslide blocking the tracks after mile marker 226 north of Eel Rock. We couldn't get around it, so we headed back to Eel Rock Rd, where the video ends.

The Samurai was originally built by local legend and friend Johnny B. That vehicle had nine lives.