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link to viral snow video

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#1

Hi All,

I wanted to post a link to a video that has gone viral ( at least in garden RR standards) over on facebook. in the last 3 days the video has had close to 200,000 views !!!

Since many of you do not “do” facebook, I found the source on youtube and will post that link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqNYffiLWDk

The large scale groups on facebook are reporting a near doubling of membership since this video and a couple of others were published.

I am also a reluctant facebook user, but I will make further comments about facebook over on John P. 's current topic

John R.

#2

Well, the youtube version has 1200 views, so can you give the facebook link? Would love to see the context that led to 200,000 views. Good promotion for a club (I’m a board member of the San Diego Garden Railway Society www.sdgrs.com)

Greg

#3

Greg,

I hope this works https://www.facebook.com/john.pinkas/videos/10156197799774610/

The link is from the G- Scale Trains group https://www.facebook.com/groups/248809748503280/

27K likes, 191,265 Shares

John R.

#4

So it has been shared almost 200k times, wow, interesting…

Greg

#5

Huh? Nothing too special to get over 200K shares. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)

#6

but a lot of the g scale page administrators are busy adding new people, if it adds some who jump into the hobby it is worth the small 200K views and shares. To make it about me in a way, I found out about G scale trains from the once a week free newspaper that gets dropped on our sidewalk every Thursday, picture on front page was about the AZ Big Train Operators spring open house, my wife showed it to me, saying “Hey you like trains, we should go”! So if some of the 200k who see this even just buy a small circle around a tree and a Lil Critter, the sales will help maybe launch a few new runs of locos and cars. Being overly optimistic, but , thats me, glass half full

#7

Joe Zullo said:

Huh? Nothing too special to get over 200K shares. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)

Yes, I agree, but, somehow it stimulated the imagination of a lot of non train people. Now they are joining the g-scale group’s and asking “how do I get started”. It’s got to be a good thing.

John R.

#8

John Ray said:

Joe Zullo said:

Huh? Nothing too special to get over 200K shares. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)

Yes, I agree, but, somehow it stimulated the imagination of a lot of non train people. Now they are joining the g-scale group’s and asking “how do I get started”. It’s got to be a good thing.

John R.

Yes John, I guess that is a good thing, but the video is pretty average.(https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#9

Hmmmm … I wonder how many hits this would get ???

#10

Sean McGillicuddy said:

Hmmmm … I wonder how many hits this would get ???

You mean this?..

#11

Ohh crapp again …(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)

I can open and see all three videos…

#12

How do you do that Joe, I never see anything and I try clicking the void in several places…???

#13

https://youtu.be/MoRxnBCDExM : from share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRxnBCDExM : from copied in the bar on top

https://youtu.be/MoRxnBCDExM?t=1 : from URL @ current time

I see now that they’re different.

#14

John Caughey said:

How do you do that Joe, I never see anything and I try clicking the void in several places…???

Ever since BD added the secure certificate to this site, older YouTube videos require an https:// address to be embedded and work on LSC.

What I do with the post is quote it, then look at the source code by hitting the <> button. Next I copy the YouTube url. Then I EMBED it in my post but add the “s” to the url. Viola’ (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)Now the cat is out of the bag (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#15

#16

Huzzah Ken. You’ve got the idea! (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Class dismissed. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#17

#18

Pete Lassen said:

but a lot of the g scale page administrators are busy adding new people, if it adds some who jump into the hobby it is worth the small 200K views and shares. To make it about me in a way, I found out about G scale trains from the once a week free newspaper that gets dropped on our sidewalk every Thursday, picture on front page was about the AZ Big Train Operators spring open house, my wife showed it to me, saying “Hey you like trains, we should go”! So if some of the 200k who see this even just buy a small circle around a tree and a Lil Critter, the sales will help maybe launch a few new runs of locos and cars. Being overly optimistic, but , thats me, glass half full

#19

Joe Zullo said:

John Caughey said:

How do you do that Joe, I never see anything and I try clicking the void in several places…???

Ever since BD added the secure certificate to this site, older YouTube videos require an https:// address to be embedded and work on LSC.

What I do with the post is quote it, then look at the source code by hitting the <> button. Next I copy the YouTube url. Then I EMBED it in my post but add the “s” to the url. Viola’ (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)Now the cat is out of the bag (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Sean McGillicuddy said:

https://youtu.be/MoRxnBCDExM Â Â :Â from share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRxnBCDExMÂ : from copied in the bar on top

https://youtu.be/MoRxnBCDExM?t=1 : from URL @ current timeÂ

I see now that they’re different.

Joe they all have the https:// (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)

#20

Jon posted a good tutorial on posting Utube videos.

Steps 3-6 showed me what I was doing wrong.