Just wondered.
Currently no, but that’s worth me looking into. Thanks for the suggestion.
Easy enough to add. Format for the embed is:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfngWhcrLvY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfngWhcrLvY[/youtube]
AH-HA-GOOD JOB BOB!!!
I hope I don’t regret it…
…was thinking same thing, but maybe we can restrain ourselves…or maybe we’ll need a separate place to post…of course, they don’t auto start, and really don’t take up any extra space (like a photo)…guess we’ll see…anyways thanks again~
cale
I’m thinking a hard-and-fast “Train related ONLY” on videos. Anything else will get a swift boot kick from the site owner.
Bob McCown said:totally fair!
I'm thinking a hard-and-fast "Train related ONLY" on videos. Anything else will get a swift boot kick from the site owner.
Vimeo is a little cranky to deal with. Lemme see if I can get it working.
C. Nelson said:I agree 100% Thanks BobBob McCown said:totally fair!
I'm thinking a hard-and-fast "Train related ONLY" on videos. Anything else will get a swift boot kick from the site owner.
Thanks Bob 
Shot from the cab of the Housatonic Railroad’s NX-11 this hand-held digi-cam video is pretty shaky even though the engine is doing less than 10 MPH. The jointed rail track makes for a lot of rocking through this slow-ordered section of the Berksire Line approaching the old New Haven’s Brookfield station.
I gotta try this too.
Railfanning in Stokes Co…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZaJZZn1otA[/youtube]
When Railfanning Goes Wrong (or … who knew the big fellow could move so fast?)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFONm16MK0[/youtube]
(That’s a Propane truck… I now understand local usage of the phrase “Oh, HELL no…”
Matthew (OV)
Now I need to upload some new stuff
Hey Matt - Your second video says “Embedding disabled by request” but the link back to Youtube does work. Was the propane truck inside the gates? That would be scary. I’ve seen the aftermath of an 18 wheel propane tanker hitting a bridge abutment. Not pretty and nothing grew there for years.
I didn’t get the camera turned around enough to properly appreciate what was going on there. (and, I’ll have to allow the embed on future videos… oops!)
With all due apologies to Monk, “Here’s what happened…”
The gates activated, with a train that I knew to be in the neighborhood of 80 cars with at least half a dozen engines coming. I could hear the locomotives at full throttle. The propane truck came down the hill, and did not stop in time, stopping with his cab on the tracks. He then tried to back up, but found that the gate had come down behind him, keeping him from getting out that way. The train was getting VERY loud … and at that point the propane truck shifted into forward gear and began to crawl back out onto the tracks. At that point, I decided it might be a good idea to be further away from the crossing than I was…
What I hadn’t counted on was that the grade is so steep there that the train was only going 10-15mph, and in the time it took the first locomotive to get to the road, the driver had pulled forward onto the track, and then backed around the point of the gate, or nearly so.
Still, I preferred not to be taking my railroad photos from space… so I’ll stand on my decision to vacate.
Matthew (OV)
Oh, and I have no idea why the train in the first video makes that stop at the crossing… I’m guessing someone got in front of him too, but I couldn’t see from where I was standing. Was a nice gentle stop … you can hardly hear any brakes…