What’s the first song in this http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5y6mi_pensacola-florida-xings_travel called? Also, look at the different types of gates. This is not my video.
The music is “In The Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt by Grieg.
When I saw the video of a trip through the highway/rail tunnel between Anchorage and Seward on another thread a while back, I thought that this composition would have been suitable for accompanying at least a part of the trip (of course, the driver should not have been expecting anything dire to come up during the passage).
Johnny
The video - which is 10 mins. 20 secs. long - is titled ‘‘Pensacola-Florida-Xings’’, and is described as ‘‘just some rr xings in Pensacola on csx and A&GR Alabama & Gulf Coast RR OWNED BY RAILAMERCIA) all other info is in the movie’’. The ‘‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’’ segment ends at about 2 mins. 25 secs.
It’s kind of a funky video, at least the first 1/4 of it that I watched so far - many short clips of views of various grade crossings and their signals and gates, including close-ups of many components. Some clips are labeled - ‘E-bell’ seems to be shorthand for ‘electronic bell’ - and what I’m wondering is how the one on top of one of the masts got bent, all the way up there ?
Interesting music choice, with the accelerating tempo. I think it’s misplaced here - it would be better used on a video of a train going by slowly at first, and then picking up speed. But maybe that’s too much of a music-video clich/e. Maybe another one would be showing cars going over a crossing faster and faster as a train approaches - or the same criticism might apply. I’m kind of thinking of the 1982 scenery-and-‘New Age’-music movie Koyaanisqatsi, for those of you who are familiar with it - see: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/ and
Dear Paul;
Re: Koyaanisquatai, in my case I think the train has left the station![banghead] I enjoy lots of different music types, but that particular choice of type after a couple of minutes had me…[banghead][banghead][banghead]
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