Patent ID: 9592838
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B61D,B62H,B62K

Claim:
1. A tandem rail rider for traveling on and off of railroad tracks comprising: a pair of duplicate transportation devices connected together, each having two wheels and configured for travel both on and off of railroad tracks while connected together; a plurality of removable planar structural elements, wherein the planar structural elements connect the duplicate transportation devices together and act to prevent the pair of duplicate transportation devices from becoming misaligned by providing vertical, horizontal and axial stability; a pair of interference elimination devices, each including a tracking wheel, a lever and a pedal and connected to each other and the pair of duplicate transportation devices by one of the plurality of structural elements so as to locate the interference elimination elements between the pair of duplicate transportation devices, wherein the pair of interference elimination devices are configured to freely rotate independently of each other about the one of the plurality of structural elements, and wherein each pedal is configured to be manipulated by a rider of a respective one of the pair of duplicate transportation devices so as to selectively raise the tracking wheel off of a respective railroad track to avoid interferences located on or next to the track.