Check Out my Conrail Trains running on my layout

[conrailpolice]

This is a video file of some of my Conrail Trains running ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA2z97ymbQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7qhmQU5PQ

[Anonymous]

That's pretty cool. I like the way the engines roar by.

[Anonymous]

Great job. I love your fleet of engines. I still say Conrail blue make the most handsome engines.

Greg

[ClinchValleySD40]

That is really great. Do some more videos, would love to watch them.
How expensive is the site?

Larry

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing. Conrail blue sure is purdy! That's quite a nice roster you have there.

I got a little chuckle in the first video with the derailed box car. I'm glad it's not just me this happens to.

Trevor

[conrailpolice]

The Site is free..

John

[Anonymous]

Good videos.

Site is free, the expense is in the camcorder, tapes, editing software and a decent upload. The Youtube site does cap you at 22kb/sec up though.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing those videos.

Wally

[zgardner18]

Throw some dirt on and weather those puppies and they'll be perfect.

[BAYOUMAN]

THANKS, ENJOYED

[chessiecat]

The Conrail engines look cool! What model are the engines and who makes them? I might just have to get some of them! Thanks Jim.

[conrailpolice]

HO Scale the first coal train the locomotives are made by Atlas


John

[loathar]

MY KINGDOM for high speed broadband!!!!(FRACKING dial up!!!)[V][V][V]

[Vampire]

Thanks. Those are great! Unit coal trains are really cool aren't they???[tup][tup]

[Anonymous]

Very nice! It's good to see another modern era Conrail modeler out there.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I really enjoyed that! That's the longest model unit train I've seen in a long time.

[Anonymous]

Great vids. Just need to dirty up those hoppers and engines and they would be perfect.

[CSXFan]

Those are great videos! Could you post some video's or pictures of other parts of your layout? I'm modeling modern Norfolk Southern and those video's are really inspirational. The unit coal train is great!

[conrailpolice]

Heres some pic of my layout

http://www.railimages.com/gallery/johnmartin

John

[Bob grech]

Thanks! That was really cool!!!!

Can you post a tuturial on how to download videos?

Thanks again!
Bob....

[Anonymous]

Thanks! That was really cool!!!!

Can you post a tuturial on how to download videos?

Thanks again!
Bob....

It's not the downloading, it is actually uploading the video to a free site such as You Tube.

The way I did mine was take the camcorder (Sony DV) and transfer the video off the tape onto my RAID via firewire. Opened Roxio 7 Software and edited the video for file size I think an hour worth of DV vido = 16 gigabyte of disk space on the hard drive. Anyways 10 minutes of youtube video runs at about 100 mb or less in final size.

Upload to you tube and copy the resulting information linking to the video and post about it somewhere such as these forums.

I must caution that uploading to you tube was about 90 kb/sec capped for me Im about 700 kb up on my DSL and it can take up to a half hour to shove it.

Of course there are any number of free hosting sites that will take a video of some size and will be free. I think videos of model trains running are very good to have and really helps when an engine or railroad is being enjoyed (Or evaluated for potential purchase)

The problems with internet video is the resolution. You can have a very powerful optic lens and a awesome camera to back it up (Not digital video, those use a plate that can reduce the quality when zoomed in) and the resulting video will be very good. Sadly it is expensive still for the equiptment.

I myself no longer use Youtube because spammers got into my messages about totally unwelcome and non-hobby related subjects. However I am considering another free video site to "Store" them and still make them availible to others.

Good Luck!

[Metro Red Line]

Nice lashup there in the first train. Sorry to see the derailment in the second one though...but at least you had one of your switchwomen help you out there! :)

[cudaken]

 John, how many Conrails do you have anyway? I thought I was bad with 15 Santa Fe war bonnets. All so kind of glad to see I am not the only person here that bench is not a Magazine quality layout. Don't have to be fancy to enjoy running the rails.

 

                       Cuda Ken

[AntonioFP45]

conrailpolice - This is a video file of some of my Conrail Trains running .... 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKA2z97ymbQ 

Enjoyed that!

Thanks for sharing