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Cornhill & Atherton - first video attempt
Ok – first effort at making a video, with a view to getting some feedback to help me improve.
Equipment is a Nikon D5100 and a very old Sanyo Exacti (for the 'in cab' shots) with Sony Movie studio 13 to process .
There’s no attempt at a story here, just a montage of photos and video clips to ‘cut my teeth’ and get some idea of how things work.
Missouri Pacific Railroad, Willoughby, Arkansas branch
Playing with Sculptamold today!
This is the second scene on my layout next to the soybean complex(see previous blog entry's). This area will have a MOPAC depot, (Used for MOW storage), and general store. Two wood kits structures that have been completed.
Thinking Outside The Box
Just a thought this Christmas; wonder when manufacturers will begin offering beautifully "weathered" locomotives and cars. . . . . would you buy one?
Missouri Pacific Railroad, Arkansas "Willioughby" Branch
Photos of the continued work on the layout:
Local switch job enters and exits the layout by removable "cassette" staging. Loading/unloading shed has been added to the soybean elevator complex.
Automobile Traffic Lights Animation with the Arduino Pro Mini
I read with great interest the excellent beginner’s Arduino tutorial by Dr. Geoff Bunza. See: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/17244 I decided to experiment.
First, I found 10 Arduino Pro Minis (5 volt) in China for $20.10 delivered to my door. For $2.01 each, I’ll let a few take one for the team while I learn.
Missouri Pacific Railroad "Willoughby Arkansas" Switching Layout.
WELCOME TO MY BLOG:
Never written a blog before but always enjoyed writing and sharing the hobby of model railroading with friends. It's also a good motivator to keep working on the layout!
My blog will cover the building and operation of my HO Scale Missouri Pacific Railroad switching layout in Western Arkansas.
BECOMING A MOPAC FAN:
SMA15: New Dual Acessory-Multifunctionl 17 Channel Configurable DCC Decoders for about $5 with Configurable Servo Support
With exactly the same low cost hardware and a library of examples ready for anyone to download and use, you can now configure six “mobile or multifunction” decoders to respond to DCC Functions and a similar set of six Accessory decoders to respond to DCC Switch commands. The neat feature is that the Accessory decoders ALSO respond to a programmable single mobile decoder address, so you can configure each of the 17 pins to perform different functions, including their use as a 17 servo accessory decoder driver.
Quad Copter view of The Polar Express Pere Marquette 1225
I had the chance to break away from work for a few hours yesterday. I went to Owosso Michigan to film the Pere Marquette 1225. What an awesome locomotive. As most everybody knows the PM 1225 is the locomotive used in the making of the movie "The Polar express". The Steam Railroading Institute puts on a great event. Here is a movie shot from my Phantom II quad copter. The thing about Quad Copters, They are noisey! So music was added to the video. When I get some better movie editing software I will dub in some locomotive sound from my camera # 2.
It would be great if we could use filters on this site!
It would be wonderful if we could set up and use filters on this site - much like filters on MS Outlook. Say that I found poster "rtw3rd" a bore, or chronic complainer and didn't want to read ANY of his posts, or let's say I got sick and tired of hearing about "Richlawn Railroad" or "Hoovertown". I would LOVE that I could have filters automatically suppress my filtered items where they didn't even show!
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