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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:19 AM

 Railfan Alex wrote:
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

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 10:56 AM
Ty, where's the tour??

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 9:17 AM
thanks tyler. can't wait to see the tour.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:26 PM

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.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:21 PM

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

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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:17 PM
 Railfan Alex wrote:

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

Dunce [D)] Wow, it's that easy...

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:15 PM

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

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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:04 PM
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.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:01 PM
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.
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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:00 PM
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).

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Saturday, August 2, 2008 8:54 PM

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

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 2, 2008 8:50 PM

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?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 2, 2008 3:41 PM
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.
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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, August 2, 2008 3:06 PM
 Railfan Alex wrote:

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.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Saturday, August 2, 2008 3:04 PM

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.

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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, August 2, 2008 2:53 PM
 Railfan Alex wrote:

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!

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Saturday, August 2, 2008 2:37 PM

Jordan I got all three articles for ya.

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

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 2, 2008 2:07 PM

 WCfan wrote:

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

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!Smile [:)]

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...Banged Head [banghead]

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...Whistling [:-^] Unfortunetely that clip is backlighted really bad (moreso than the one with talking) so maybe I'll try to swap the audio...Mischief [:-,]

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Posted by Wikious on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:24 AM
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.

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Posted by WCfan on Saturday, August 2, 2008 9:12 AM

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

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.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Friday, August 1, 2008 10:24 PM
Yeah, I could spend months perfecting a specific scene, or locomotive... It took me half an hour trying to get the decals to look as good as they were going to look on the WRS car. I like detailing and decalling locomotives a lot, but even more I like making a stage replicating the real thing. Last I checked I was working on a diorama of West Chelmsford Mass. I know where I want each tree...

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Friday, August 1, 2008 10:22 PM
 Guilford Guy wrote:

Just to stir things up a little...

What kind of modeler do you consider yourself?

For me I don't think there is a word for it. I'm a little arm charish, and a little collecter, and even a little operator. I consider myself as one, that given a picture, can recreate an entire scene, or piece of equipment, but am not as interested in having a huge layout, as I am on working on a diorama or piece of equipment. I still want a layout, but right now only a 5x10ish so I can focus on specific area's, or change out locomotives from a display case(I have a nice list of stuff to model).

I'm pretty much like you.

I like the little extra details, and the behind the scenes stuff, like electronics, making your models come to life I guess...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, August 1, 2008 10:19 PM
Roundy-rounder scenery builder pretty much sums up me, because that's what I love to do. I might enjoy switching (never had good enough turnouts for it), and not enough money for a collector (though I do have 4 engines as of now [had 3 until the ebay action for a NW GP35 ended a few minutes ago]). I sorta like building mini layouts as well (takes less time, and they still work great). I've got three: a 2 ft.x 2.5 ft. oval w/ two sidings, a mountain one w/ a STEEP grade (I'd bet over 4 % in one mountain), and a 7 ft. x 18in. yard.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Friday, August 1, 2008 10:12 PM

Just to stir things up a little...

What kind of modeler do you consider yourself?

For me I don't think there is a word for it. I'm a little arm charish, and a little collecter, and even a little operator. I consider myself as one, that given a picture, can recreate an entire scene, or piece of equipment, but am not as interested in having a huge layout, as I am on working on a diorama or piece of equipment. I still want a layout, but right now only a 5x10ish so I can focus on specific area's, or change out locomotives from a display case(I have a nice list of stuff to model).

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, August 1, 2008 6:43 PM
Tyler, I think I should do that. I'll start it soon.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Friday, August 1, 2008 6:43 PM

... Its hard to beat 2 C636's, and a C630 charging up grade with a 32 car train... The sound is amazing...

WRS' Impack's are getting paint... 2 are wearing the old black, 1 is in the shortlived "Blood-Dip" with an entirely red car, and 5 are in the new scheme of a red trailer hitch, and red on another portion of the car(too hard to explain). They are supposed to be decalled later tonight. WRS 1751 was stripped further to remove the old primer exposing the original Santa Fe paint beneath. 1751 needs to have the horn, bell, and 1 ditch light reattached...

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Friday, August 1, 2008 5:44 PM
OH! Nice sound Tyler!

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Friday, August 1, 2008 5:41 PM

Jordan,

I found three articles on what seems to be building a SDL39 in HO. I'll get more info on Saturday.

And secondly, I was doing more reading and I found that you could use a Atlas RSD-4/5/12 frame as a starting point.

  1. The frame is short.
  2. They are designed for 6 axle's.
  3. And the axle spacing is almost perfect for the SDL39.

So you can plop your shell onto this frame hopefully...

http://trainiax.net/drawings/cd/cd-cmalcorsd12.gif

http://trainiax.net/drawings/cd/cd-rkemdsdl39.gif

Now what to do about the fuel tank? I guess just replace it? But then you'd have to mill it off, oh, so much work!

I never said anything. You should probably stick to your plan...

I hope I helped a bit...

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 1, 2008 5:33 PM

Sawyer; you could seriously write a book about your different freelanced railroads!

WCFan: Love that SD40-2 rumble. I realize now that I can only hear the rumble while a slow speeds; I also noticed it on this standard GP38 (no Dash 2!Smile [:)]) in Palmer around 3:00 in this one: EDIT: Nice smoke at 3:38 (excuse the sound of the lens cap banging against the camera...)

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

Most of the trains I see are at speed, so I don't notice the individual sounds, as it's mixed with the clickity-clack. I'm now going back and re-watching all my vids to get some throttle sound. I'm trying to see if I have any good video of that M&E Alco that doesn't have my cousins talking in the background... Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, August 1, 2008 4:16 PM

Thanks WCfan.

Inspired by looking at a few railroads around SC on the web and a map of SC RR lines, my RR is now a 44.something mile shortline connecting Aiken and Edgefield. It's two main locomotives are a GP9 (road switcher) and an H-15-44 (yard switcher). it also has a small leasing fleet, mainly GP30s through GP40s, but a few U23Bs, MP15s, 2 SD39Qs (WC 2500, a Southern Rwy. high hood unit), and several GP38-2s. Also has a frieght car leasing fleet. I might make a small shelf layout showing their leasing yard on the other side of Aiken. Here's the paint scheme:

[image posted w/ permission of the author (7/18/08) and MR forum]

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