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[quote user="Joe the Photog"] <p>A thirty minute weekly show on trains would be a hoot to produce. I think it could be done and it could be done. Better yet, maybe a Train magazine should produce a show for their web site and charge folks for viewing. You could literally do a show a week for years and never revisit the same place. When I was at my last TV station, I did a 30 minute show almost by myself in a weeks time -- some of the video predated that and actually one of the segments was from when the ex-L&C 2-8-0 on the NH&I was repainted in L&C colors -- on the Lancaster and Chester Railway. </p><p>One of the most well received stories I've done at my current station was about the South Carolina Railroad Museum. There is interest out there that many of us might not even think about.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In South Carolina, I can think of these stories of the top of my head --</p><p>-- Running trains over the Intra-Coastal bridge on the Carolina Southern into Myrtle Beach</p><p>-- The passenger car restoration that goes on at the L&C</p><p>-- A look at the operations in Hamlet Yard</p><p>-- A feature on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad</p><p>-- A look at the Columbia Model Railroading Club</p><p>-- Go railfaning with some of our serious and not so serious photographers; mic them up, mic up a scanner and let them go</p><p>-- Individual stories on Carolina shortline ops</p><p>And that's just of the top of my head and just in the Carolinas. This would work. Even a 15 minute montly addition to the web site. </p><p> </p><p>Joe H.</p><p>WIS-TV</p><p>Columbia, SC</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>This is basically what I had in mind. We have many shortlines here in Georgia and the Carolinas that are pretty interesting, to me at least.</p>
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