With all the excitement about the new GS-4s I decided to drag out my kit bashed GS-1. This started life as a Great Northern S2 before it went under the knife. Here it is flying the green flags for the first section of the Argonaut from Los Angeles to New Orleans. The GS-1s usually only ran from El Paso to Houston with smaller engines pulling the train on to New Orleans and back.
44 second video at google. [ame="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9185914554019494347&hl=en"]Grey and Grandure 1st Movie[/ame] It is my first shared vid. It was done on my Kodak C513 which is a pocket size with 3x zoom. It is worth viewing if you are new to videos as it points is of very poor qualty yet demonstrates three things: Alternating colors show up really well. Do not zoom with low end cameras on movies. If I am good I can time it to coincide with passing commuter rail and Amtrak trains. Notes: The train consists of alternating black and white beercan tank cars followed by a string of dark 70 ton ore cars. As the train rounds the curve at the right you can hear the sound of a passing commuter train which is about 100 feet from my window. I hope to have a much better and more interesting one or two by Tuesday. Enjoy.
What a great looking engine that is, Russell, after all this time she still makes everyone notice when she enters the room. I am back to black and white for this week's contribution. C&O H-8 2-6-6-6 Allegheny lumbers up the Sentinel Coal mine spur. Good thing the rail weight is good for this monster.
Hudson Highlands camelback #293 is seen here northbound at Putney, NY, on an early autumn morning in 1941. In tow it has a string of reefers destine for the huge A&P regional warehouse in Jacksboro. NYW&B
The morning's through boxcar unit train out of Grandure takes the Eastern Curve having reversed direction and is headed for Points Unknown hauled by a CP FP45 (Grant Sar kit assembled and painted for me by Hemi). [ame="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-418376007828800345&hl=en"]Around the Bend[/ame] Edit: I welcome any and all feedback on the videos. Negative and positive. Thanks!
Here's the yard looking north: Again, no manipulation other than blending one unsightly seam in the backdrop.
Great stuff! Nice videos Grey One! Mike, love that shot at the tunnel. The BW shots always look great. Pete, love that last shot. I really like the smoke effect on the Camelback. And last but not least, great crew change photo.
The yard is about 18 feet long. I shot this at about 70mm focal length with a dSLR, which would compress it a bit, which is what I intended. I used Helicon Focus software to achieve the depth of field. Otherwise, no tricks whatsoever. Most of my model railroad shots are at wide angle--down to 12mm in my case. I'm experimenting with longer lenses now. I'm just curious as to how a telephoto will render a scene in miniature. That's all there is to it--I'm just curious. I don't have much room to back off in distance, as the layout fills the room.
I have been assembling H0 scale kits for my club. Here are two I finished and weathered with an airbrush.
Here's a shot for this week: The NMRA guys at the local Coast Division meet, most of whom are HO, continually say things like "geez, N scale has come a long way!". Have a good week, all.
Steve, your first video blew me away at the end with its heavy rail sound. Then you had to go and spoil it all in your next post when you explained that it was a T train next door....:unhappy:
I was in Reno, NV for the week at a training symposium. Here's some stuff captured when Greg Elems and I did some 'fanning around the Reno/Sparks area. Amtrak's Reno depot at 9PM: The effect is there, the focus wasn't. The camera just wouldn't cooperate to get a clear shot of Harrah's casino as a backdrop to the power sitting in Sparks about 9PM: Amtrak's CZ is 9 hours or more late, as it waits in Sparks, NV: Finally daylight! A trench, not unlike the SoCal Alameda Corridor, has been built in Reno's downtown area. Here's a North Platte-Roseville mainfest entering the trench grade:
