A few of us on the G Scale Mad forum are interested in taking videos of our garden railways. If that interests you, check out http://www.vimeo.com/gscaletrains
The six vids fall into three categories:
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Three extension tests. I built a 12’ long steel ramp, the first six feet at less than one degree, the last six feet at 6.5 degrees, running from ground level up to two spurs set on a five degree slope. These three videos show experiments to see what various locos, and combinations of locos, were able to pull up that slope. They also contain a couple of segments showing an old man’s panic when the experiment didn’t work out as anticipated!
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Two sound tests. We don’t have sound in our locos, so the next best thing is to grab a real sound off the net, then overlay it on a G-scale video clip. These two shorties illustrate that technique.
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The Summer 08 vid shows snippets of train running this past summer. You folks are just heading into summer; ours is long gone, but the weather here is what passes for summer in many parts of the US. This video is just as much an excuse to listen to music I like as it is to watch trains!
