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[WCfan]

Furgal! lol, new word I made up, . I think the server is glitching, it says I need to log in or register, but I'm in as WCfan right now....

Humm what kind of modeler am I? I'm kind of like you Alex. I love detailing locomotives so they look almost the same (Although I haven't gotten the parts to do so for my SD45s.) I also am an Arm chair modeler as right now I don't have the space to do what I really want. (Northern Wisconsin, Smaller Subdivision with Ore run throughs on both SP and DMIR, lots of pulp wood, Junction and interchange with the CNW, and a Junction/branch line.)

BTW Tyler, the reason you hear that reving noise at slow speeds is because that is when the engine is starting to load, and the engineer notchs up to get the train started, at higer speeds usually you don't need to do that. To Explain it, in all the locomotives there's a Load meter, once the load meter moves to the right you can move the notch to the side, from lets says notch 2 to notch 3, but you can only notch up when the load meter moves to the right, this prevents wheel slip. In SD70s take a long time to load, but a SD40-2 or older locomotives, it is very quick, which is why you hear the sounds that you hear.

[Wikious]

I guess I'd also fall partly into the armchair modeler category. I don't have any space to build a full layout, and it's only been in the last year or two that I've really figured out what I want to model. I spend a good deal of time working on painting and kitbashing locos and cars.

[Anonymous]

Furgal! lol, new word I made up, . I think the server is glitching, it says I need to log in or register, but I'm in as WCfan right now....

Phew! I was abut to send another Email to Customer Service about it, but noticed that it was working again. (the last email was because I had two seperate accounts for subscribing to TRAINS and MR, respectively, with the same email address... Fixed now though!

I love to operate, (except I don't all that much because it takes too much time to clean my track/wheels beforehand; by the time I'm ready my parents are calling me to do chores or something...

I wish I could operate on a "good" layout that holds full size operating sessions such as Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line... I also enjoy scenery building and building Athearn, Roundhouse, MDC, and Accurail freightcar kits. (I haven't attempted any other brands so far because of the price)

I only have one clip of the M&E Alcos without a lot of talking, the other ones have my younger brother and my cousins talking really loudly... "Look! There's a little kid in the train!" "Wave to the people!" Etc... Of course there's little kids in the train... it's the Easter Bunny Express... Unfortunetely that clip is backlighted really bad (moreso than the one with talking) so maybe I'll try to swap the audio...

[Railfan Alex]

Jordan I got all three articles for ya.

Two are drawings, one is a step by step, including the trucks!

[WCfan]

Jordan I got all three articles for ya.

Two are drawings, one is a step by step, including the trucks!

PM the step-by-step one to me!

[Railfan Alex]

Ok, so you dont want the drawings articles?

I got the one you have, and one in RMC from July 1972.

+ the step by step.

[WCfan]

Ok, so you dont want the drawings articles?

I got the one you have, and one in RMC from July 1972.

+ the step by step.

Both are good. I don't need the SDL39 proto-type drawings as I already have them.

[Anonymous]

Well, I dubbed the sound from the good audio/bad video onto the good video/bad audio, and it works pretty well. Now I just need a reason to upload it...probably in my "Best of 2008" video, although that will have to wait till the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Well, I've been busy revamping my model videos, which have been totally neglected lately. I'm not taking any new video right now, I'm just putting my best clips in a "Best of the WRS" video and adding sound mostly from my prototype videos, as opposed to my old method of taking sound files from online, which I have to loop over and over again because they are too short, making it sound kind of bad.

I've got scenes from almost all of my model videos (except for Railfanning Stude and Railfanning Dooley), but only the best of the best. I've re-dubbed sound from almost all of my prototype videos, which gets a little weird when reading the titles of the audio files in MSWMM...For example I have a video of an SW9 with the horn from a NJT cab car...as well as using sound from two different prototype locomotives for the same model locomotive at different times.  This is where it gets weird, as the model is a U23B, and the two prototype locomotives are a GP38 and a GP40P.

I'm going to release this video after possibly getting some clips if another op. session happens this week (I'm waiting on an Email from GuilfordGuy) or sooner if the session doesn't happen. I haven't decided if I'm going to delete the rest of the model videos I currently have on YouTube.

Any thoughts?

[Railfan Alex]

You should leave 'em, shows how you've improved! ;)

[Packers#1]

Tyler, just don't delete the one that overviews your layout, unless you make another one. It's a really cool video, and is a good overview of your layout. only reason I ain't got any videos is the lack of a digital video camera (might get sister to let me borrow her digital camera that can shoot video).

[Anonymous]

Whoops...didn't expect comments this fast. Problem is, I just went and deleted most of them... I'm going to make a tour, in fact, I'm going to do that right now.

[WCfan]

Tyler, how do you seperate the sound from a video clip? Cuze that 3 SD40-2 CP one I'd like to get the sound off, but I don't know how. There are also a few other clips too.

[Railfan Alex]

Well if ur just using the sound in another video, just dump the video in the audio section in Windows Movie Maker.

[WCfan]

Well if ur just using the sound in another video, just dump the video in the audio section in Windows Movie Maker.

Wow, it's that easy...

[Packers#1]

Can't wait to see it tyler, don't forget to post a link.

Hey guys, help me out. I gotta get 25 hits on this site in 90 days or i lose the url name. It's the photobucket albulm I got my loco schemes from stan lytle on:

www.locoschemes.tk

Thanks in advance

[Anonymous]

Hit your site, Sawyer.

Jordan, you can also put the clip in the timeline bar, then show the audio seperate from the video and drag the audio into the audio section. Alex's method is easier though...

I just imported the tour clip, it should be on YouTube soon, if not tonight, then tomorrow.

[Packers#1]

thanks tyler. can't wait to see the tour.

[Railfan Alex]

Ty, where's the tour??

[Packers#1]

Ty, where's the tour??

Yeah man, did you delete the previous one?

EDIT: he delete the previous one, but here's a local on his layout 9part 2 in roll). Just posting these because he ain't online, I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxKlyI2BcKM

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the other one got deleted a while ago. I got the new tour up. I may revamp the old one to remove that horrific music...

Here's the new one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3cHjx3Qr6U

[Railfan Alex]

Wow Tyler! I didn't realize how large the layout was!

What are the dimentions? And do you have a track plan?

[Packers#1]

Great job tyler. I gotta say though, i like the other one better cause you swing the camera like you're in a helicopter, and the music was not bad on the other one. well, anyways, enjoyed the new one man, you've made some progress.

[Anonymous]

It's roughly 12' by 22', and I used to have a track plan...excpet the dimensions are wacko and I've rearranged some stuff since then. I'll try to draw up an updated plan this week.

EDIT: Yeah, the camera work was pretty bad in this one... I was in a hurry. And Alex; if you go to my WRS blog in my sig, I've got a lot more info as well as some overhead photos in the older posts.

[Packers#1]

Hey tyler, see what you can do w/ this software:

http://www.atlasrr.com/righttrack.htm

[Railfan Alex]

Oh, now I see the overhead pictures! I didn't realize there was another page lol...

[WCfan]

Man I really wish I had a layout that size. Makes me want to work on my 4x8, but I can't do a whole lot on there. I think it's be cool if you did little clips at each spot, maybe like a chase, where you chase on of your train through each spot/town on your layout. Or have 2 or 3 trains that you chase, but you don't film one train at each town, maybe every other town, and piece the clips together that way.

[Railfan Alex]

And I would like to know what you used for the backdrop. It looks really good!

[Packers#1]

finally created a decent blog:

www.sbpackernut.tk

Please vist.

[Railfan Alex]

Looks good!