In conjunction with my series in GR on shooting video of your trains, I’ve uploaded the latest video from the Tuscarora RR to YouTube
(Anyone know how to embed YouTube video here?)
I produced this one in HD, so if your computer can handle streaming HD video, set the quality to HD and bring it full screen!
Later,
K
Kevin Strong said:
In conjunction with my series in GR on shooting video of your trains, I've uploaded the latest video from the Tuscarora RR to YouTube(Anyone know how to embed YouTube video here?)
I produced this one in HD, so if your computer can handle streaming HD video, set the quality to HD and bring it full screen!
Later,
K
Thanks, Steve. What’s the trick?
K
I had to get the video playing, then copy the url as it was playing. I then inserted that into:
[youtube]XXXXXXXXX[/youtube]
I tried copying the url that you posted and using that, but that didn’t work. That only got me to the video. I have no idea why that is.
Absolutely beautiful , maybe the best model railroad video I have ever seen , but , do you not have a pair of scissors to trim the plants so the train crew isn’t blinded or injured by dragging limbs .
Other than that perfect video .
Hey Kevin, I can only say one thing, AWESOME!!!
SaWheat!
I see all the ice and snow has melted out there in beautiful Colorado, or should I say the Tuscarora Valley. I love that wooden cab on the Connie and those shots out the back door of the caboose. How you do that???..
My camera ain’t that small…
One word…Excellent!!
Gives the rest of us something to shoot for.
Very good!Enjoyed the video.Locomotive Sound is just right.
First of all - great video. I love the shots from inside the detailed caboose.
Steve Featherkile said:
I had to get the video playing, then copy the url as it was playing. I then inserted that into:[youtube]XXXXXXXXX[/youtube]
I tried copying the url that you posted and using that, but that didn’t work. That only got me to the video. I have no idea why that is.
Very nice. I love all the details.
That was a lot of fun to watch 
Excellent job.
Ralph
Its obvious you have talent in videography. I especially enjoyed how you were able to work in the sounds with your video to make it sound very realistic. How cool would that be if you could get that sound quality from your lil’ Connie.
Now that was a blast. Incredible video and sound. Love the close ups of the running gear, the in caboose shots, and interspersing B&W with color shots.
Very inspiring!!!
Tom
@ Dennis, it adds realism. It’s not often I ride a tourist railroad where–somewhere along the line–I hear a branch raking down the side of the car. It’s when the groundcover reaches out and lifts my coupler lift bars that I break out the scissors.
@ Ken, the GoPro is a very small camera–a cube roughly 1.5" square-ish. The outdoor adventure guys use them a lot for some really cool shots of them doing the whacked out things they do. They shoot full broadcast-quality HD. We’ve got a few photogs here at the station who have them in their “bag of tricks” for those unique shots you can’t get any other way. (David Gregg is one of our photogs; as soon as he got his, he came to me and said “we GOTTA put this on your trains!” The die was cast…) The Nikon is the same size as most pocket-sized point-and-shoot cameras. I wasn’t terribly impressed with its ability to hold focus; you can see in the shots where it seems to want to hunt for various points. But it did pretty good for what it was. At least I could control the focal length with it. Can’t do that with the GoPro or the iPhone.
@ Jake, the “stock” sound from the Phoenix on that loco sounds great in its own right. The problem is that when you record sound coming from a speaker, it loses a lot of what you hear with the naked ear the farther away the mic is from the speaker. I could tweak the sounds with the equalizer on the software to where it sounded pretty darned good close up, but any more than 3’ away from the camera, it sounded like really bad AM radio. Besides, dubbing the live stuff in is just that much more cool. (And gives me an excuse to go railfanning! Gotta get new sounds for the next video.)
@ Everyone, thanks for the compliments! It took me nearly 3 years to sit down and put this one together. I’m putting together a storyboard for a longer-form piece I hope to shoot over the course of this summer; sort of a “documentary” of the Tuscarora RR.
Later,
K
It is a great video! I especially love the low and unusual camera angles, really made you feel like you were there!
Very, very well done! That’s the kind of thing I’ve been working towards for my layout videos.
Kevin Strong said:
@ Ken, the GoPro is a very small camera--a cube roughly 1.5" square-ish. The outdoor adventure guys use them a lot for some really cool shots of them doing the whacked out things they do. They shoot full broadcast-quality HD. We've got a few photogs here at the station who have them in their "bag of tricks" for those unique shots you can't get any other way. (David Gregg is one of our photogs; as soon as he got his, he came to me and said "we GOTTA put this on your trains!" The die was cast...) The Nikon is the same size as most pocket-sized point-and-shoot cameras. I wasn't terribly impressed with its ability to hold focus; you can see in the shots where it seems to want to hunt for various points. But it did pretty good for what it was. At least I could control the focal length with it. Can't do that with the GoPro or the iPhone.@ Everyone, thanks for the compliments! It took me nearly 3 years to sit down and put this one together. I’m putting together a storyboard for a longer-form piece I hope to shoot over the course of this summer; sort of a “documentary” of the Tuscarora RR.
Later,
K
Thanks for the tips. It’s nice having a professional around that can give you some of those “tricks of the trade”…I also like that “documentary” idea, hhhhhhmmmmmmmmm…
(3 years, huh? Good Grief! I get impatient when it only takes me a half hour to put one video together…)
Like the saying goes, “Practice, practice, practice”…
Wow Im speachless on that one. Just awsome. I wish I could do something like that.
Ken, do a search on eBay for “key fob camera” for small video cameras. Jerry Barnes used one, and the videos, while certainly not broadcast quality, were not bad at all!