Good times, that do not return

[Mario_v]

Hello all ;

Here's a more or less video showing something from my country that is not possible any longer. Now, there aren't almost no alco power, and this line has been lifted some time ago (despite being freight only, top speed was a respectable 25 mph, very good for a line with branch line status). Hope you like it

MV

watch?feature=playerembedded&v=21XXStbYgd8 

[baberuth73]

Enjoyed this very much. Do you know what they were hauling?

[Mario_v]

Cement train. It used to run once a week

[BaltACD]

First time I have ever seen bagged cement on pallets being shiped on open flat cars.

I see your country has the same problem of kids & their pets playing on railroad tracks.

[John WR]

Mario_v

Cement train.

That's a lot of cement.  

[efftenxrfe]

There are way to many levels to comment on this, at any level,  a 9.9 out of 10 toward the "superior"  valuation.

Technically: consistent sound volume, color  balance, tripod steadiness during takes that were very well planned and panned, acommodating the weather---on and on.

Artistically: the variety of takes: the patience at the yard and the throttling up getting out of town, the pan accross the landscape and being there for the arrival of the visual of the train approaching. The pass at the station during the storm...watch it, there's more.

And the framing and angle of perception of the shapes worked all the time; in a weak horizontal-vertical amateur tv producer world, this production must teach.

Watch it, railfan photograhers) and watch it again...it teaches!

   

[Mario_v]

When train frequency is as reduced as it was on this line, that's what it happens

The bagged cement technique is quite a old one here. Normally (and this train is no exception to other 'cement haulers'), it is carried like this from the factory to what americans would call a 'loading dock', wich acts as a 'translçoading' facility, where the bags are transfered directly to trucks