How about some videos !!

Classic Toy Trains Forum
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Hope if anyone has some videos they will post some here !! Here are a couple recent ones I made with my camera mounted to a frame !

This is how not to do it !!

http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l112/csxt30/?action=view&current=DSCF0837.flv

This one is on my last loop I put in !

http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l112/csxt30/?action=view&current=DSCF0841.flv

Thanks, John

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John, thanks for sharing that. I enjoyed the “joy ride” on the back of that consist. That engine sure can put out the smoke!

Dennis

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John,

Those are great!!! Make me want to try something!

Jim

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Thanks Dennis !! That is just like the eng. Dr. John just got !!

Thanks, John

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Oh, thanks Jim !! I’m just trying to encourage others to make some too !! Mine always have Major Boo-Boos in them !! [(-D]

Thanks, John

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Heres a video clink on the picture.

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Alex : It looks like it will be a good one, but I can’t seem to get it to work . I’ll keep checking though !!

Thanks, John

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John - I loved your videos. The first one made me laugh - reminded me of my work caboose hitting my tunnel portal on the first run - OOOPs - Forgot it was too tall to go there and BAMM! Derailed 4 cars and blew a fuse! Gotta know your secret to the 2nd one…just how did YOU follow that train through all those small spaces???[(-D][(-D][(-D]

Alex - didn’t get the video to work but sure was a great picture!!!

Lisa

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Them’s is some down right entertainin videos. By the way John, is that a little ole Tony Stewart avatar I see in your sig? You wouldn’t be a NASCAR fan now would you?

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John… Great job. Thanks for including the first video. That was a training video. Keep up the good work.

Chuck

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heres a link for the video

http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t124/alexweihmann/?action=view&current=102_2010.flv

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Put on your dancing shoes… and turn up the sound. (Dial up connections, don’t think it will work.)

http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/pfoh/?action=view&current=Snowtrain2007_0001.flv

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PRR M1a 4-8-2 runby…

http://jaspersrock.bigralph.com/video/M1aSmoke.wmv

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Thanks Lisa & Red & Chuck !! Chuck got me started on watching Tony Stewart !! [:D] I used to always watch drag racing !!

Lisa here is how I did it so far with the camera mounting. It just takes a 1/4 X 20 bolt & some washers maybe, which is the thread size on the bottom of the camera, just like a the screw on the top of the tripods.

Oh, I just used a frame from a boxcar to mount the camera on.

Alex: I got to your site but it said the images no longer exist.

Very nice videos too from Buckeye & Ralph !! I could watch those all day !!

Thanks, John

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Pretty cool video! The first one looks some of my first attempts to video my trains but I derailed in a tunnel. Lots of expletives in that one while trying to reach the train.

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John,

That is a great idea! I’ve been trying to use a small wireless camera that I picked up at Radio Shack. It keeps getting interference though (I think from my neighbors’ cordless phones and wireless Internet). I’m going to steal your idea and try it today.

Nice video’s everyone.

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Hope fully this will work

http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t124/alexweihmann/?action=view&current=102_2010.flv

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John,
How big is your layout? It looks like it has a good track design and ‘flow’ (at least judging from your videos).

Geno

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Geno : thanks for asking !! It’s about 22 feet X maybe close to 30 feet the other way. I tried to stay as close to 72 in curves as possible on 2 of the 3 loops. It’s kind of a crazy layout, going around the furnace & hot water heater & all. Hope we see pictures of yours also, I think you have a layout, right ? !! Sorry about that homosote thread the other day.

Alex : sorry but I think your video still doesn’t work & says the same as before. Maybe it’s just me !!

DarianJ : Thanks & hope you get up & running with your camera soon !! There was a great thread that I can’t find now on the other forum where those guys had a ton of great ideas for mounting a camera on. One was mounted on just a truck alone & of course it had the coupler on it too.

Thanks, John

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John,
My layout is kind of in limbo right now- I’m rethinking my present track plan. I originally wanted two levels but I’m thinking the upper level would make the lower level kind of crowded. I think it’s better to just have a single level, but with grades and a high line. I’m also considering putting a staging area inside my base cabinets, and maybe expanding the shape of it from L-shape to a ‘U’. You’d think 20 x 20 is plently of room, but sometimes a square is harder to work with rather than a rectangle.

No worries about the great homasote debate- that’s why it’s called a forum.

Geno