Blurry pictures of fast train

[stebbycentral]

I spent most of the last week installing a Dalee electronic E-unit in my American Flyer Atlantic. No matter how much I poked and prodded at the old mechanical unit I could never get the locomotive to run in any direction but forward.  So I decided to chuck it and go modern.

The installation required removing the locomotive shell and doing some major rewiring. The Dalee instructions stipulate that the light and the smoke unit have to be on a circuit separate from the motor brushes and field coil, bypassing the electronics and connecting straight to track power. To accomplish this I had to remove the old 4-wire connector between the locomotive and tender, and replace it with two minature 3-wire connectors. These I obtained from the RC aircraft electronics section of my LHS.

Once the patient was out of surgery, it was time to set up a test track and break it in. As you can see, so far so good.

Now I just need to learn how to set the ISO settings on my digital camera!

[rtraincollector]

stebbycentral

Now I just need to learn how to set the ISO settings on my digital camera!

or slow the train down acually great pics and nice looking AF set. Thanks for sharing.

[DMUinCT]

Use FLASH to stop the action.  Most Digital Cameras will slow the shutter speed in poor lighting rather than raising the ISO which tends to introduce grain to the photo.

If your camera allows, set a minimum shutter speed, again some (most?) digitals will slow the shutter down to 1/60 of a second before raising the CCD sensor value.   Also, the further back you get the less the motion will show, (smaller portion of the screen, smaller motion).