ctxmf74

I don't know how many modelers use youtube to get modeling info but the modern eras guys can learn a lot about trains from watching video. My fav is Stobe the hobo who sadly was killed about a year ago but left and interesting record of the trains and railroad towns in many parts of the country. Great views of rolling stock in operation and trackside scenery from the point of view of the trains. I wish the transition era riders had this modern video equipment so there would have been more stuff from that era....DaveB

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peter-f

I love the transition videos... except

except for the lack of color fidelity... fading, shifting, badly balanced color film... (but I do miss film).

The challenges of video are rarely fully understood by the amateur, and I applaud those who take it on.  Without them, all we'd have would be old westerns with the 'tried and true' scenic railroads ... even those are of dubious quality.. (just ask Warflight).

About the best we get are B&W industrial films (plenty on Youtube), but transition in balanced and true color... with open boxcar doors... rare, indeed.

- regards

Peter

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RSeiler

Video...

I try to use videos all the time for information. However, if all I knew about trains was what I see on videos I would be convinced that every train consisted of one or more locomotives, followed by maybe one or two cars, and a caboose. Seems like everybody that makes train videos can't help but follow the power as it goes by. Place camera on tripod, walk away. Walk away. WALK. AWAY.  Turn camera off after entire train has passed. 

Randy

Randy

Cincinnati West -  B&O/PC  Summer 1975

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peter-f

(True, Randy... )

I agree about the panicked pan as the locos go by...  but for unit trains, following the power is trite.   Face it,  O. Winston Link, you're not, so make a documentary.  As for unit trains, get three cars, got 'em all. You'd miss the length, but looking back down the ROW, along the string of cars,  you can get a sense of that.

How I wish we took a few photos in my house across from the Erie, 1958... a boring little line with 1 or 2 daily trains.  I now have vague (and vaguer) memories to go from... how a photo would be useful.  That line was a re-alignment built 3 years before we moved in there... and we left after 5 years.  To my knowledge, no family photos include the railroad.  Thus, even trite photos are better than  none.

I'm waiting for a damp evening to photograph the catenary sparks in the evening.

- regards

Peter

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ctxmf74

 "if all I knew about trains

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 "if all I knew about trains was what I see on videos I would be convinced that every train consisted of one or more locomotives, followed by maybe one or two cars, and a caboose."

That's what I like about the Stobe videos, unless he gets into a DPU it's all about the freight cars and the trackside scenery( along with some excellent piano playing in spots of the sound track) ....DaveB

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JWhite

About the best we get are B&W

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About the best we get are B&W industrial films (plenty on Youtube), but transition in balanced and true color... with open boxcar doors... rare, indeed.

Don't forget movies filmed in the era you model. I model 1955. Many movies of the film noir genre have scenes that were shot in industrial areas.  While most of what you find will be Southern Pacific there are films that were shot in other parts of the country.  While the railroad was seldom a part of the story, it was often in the background.

Jeff White

Alma IL

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DirtyD79

I try to use videos all the

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I try to use videos all the time for information. However, if all I knew about trains was what I see on videos I would be convinced that every train consisted of one or more locomotives, followed by maybe one or two cars, and a caboose. Seems like everybody that makes train videos can't help but follow the power as it goes by. Place camera on tripod, walk away. Walk away. WALK. AWAY.  Turn camera off after entire train has passed. 

Ugggghhh I always hate that. I still remember watching one video, you'd swear the moron with the camera probably spent the next day in the chiropractor's office the way he was straining to avoid shooting anything but the locomotives as the consist was moving farther and farther away. Believe it or not some of us actually want to see all of the train. Somebody else came up with a term for this calling it "Gulash Whiplash."

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RSeiler

"Gulash Whiplash"

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Somebody else came up with a term for this calling it "Gulash Whiplash."

That was me.    Caught some grief over it too.  But, man, that guy was really bad about that. He did everything he could to avoid accidentally catching anything behind a locomotive. 

Randy

Randy

Cincinnati West -  B&O/PC  Summer 1975

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/17997

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