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I have a small collection of traincams starting with an X10 colour cam on a flat car an extremely low lux b&w and another b&w that takes 16mm movie camera lenses. The problem I find is that the fixed camera gives a picture in the direction of the car that it is fixed to. When the car goes into a curve the camera points off into the scenery instead of looking down the line. My latest traincam is a colour camera mounted on a gimbal made from the bearing that drops into the hole in a 5 1/4 floppy drive. I added a 'steering' arm to the back of the mount. The cam car is followed by the steering car which has an adjustable actuating arm that automatically turns the camera as the cam car enters the curve. The resulting picture keeps the view down the track quite nicely. Of course the camera can also be adjusted to give angled side views that compensate in a similar manner. I have a formidable collection of video tape but as yet very little has been digitised other than the early X10 efforts. If anyone cares I could take some pictures of my tracking traincam for you.
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