An increasing number of video cameras are being made at factory with encoding GPS that puts a very small stamp inside the video or picture showing exactly where the image was shot on the Earth.
Some cameras are capable of finding thier own wireless connection to net and automatically uploading media if not streaming it hot to the net.
I deliberately use older hardware and am careful where to shoot trains. Once uploaded it stays.
Besides the railroads ought to be thankful for more eyeballs on thier trains. Makes things safer and have evidence should something really bad happen.
While it's great to see such videos, try to put the shoe on the other foot. Would you allow someone to put a camera in your car? And post the resulting videos on YouTube? With today's litigous society, there's always somebody out there looking to sue somebody for something, and if you hand them some evidence on a silver platter, well, great!
As more than a few people have found out, such postings have a way of coming back and biting them later.
You can be sure that if a railroad was to approve such an activity, the video would be thoroughly scrutinized for potential liability, etc, before it made it into the public arena.
Not to mention that by virtue of it being an electronic device, it's a rules violation, too.
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One of the best know railroaders on youtube was a guy with the user named "TheRecorder". He had alot of video of train including in-cab videos of rides and sitting at a signal videoing other trains go by.
However, about a month or 2 ago, BNSF (who he worked for) found his videos on youtube and made him take all of them off. This made alot of his friends and hundreds of subscribers quite angry. He also luckily still continues to work for BNSF.
I am not suprised that their arent many cab videos on youtube, with the way that it is "policed". However, the ones that are are exceptionaly good made and informative videos.
What I am asking is, dont you think that railroads should have more important things to do than be looking at videos on youtube to make sure there is no cab videos?
Do truck companies search youtube trying to catch one of their drivers making videos of the cab in their truck for truck fans? I dont believe so.
I know its a matter of "safety" but how does having a camera sitting in the cab (not being held) in any way affect the safety of the train? I can understand the engineer holding the camera and trying to run it at the same time; but if the train is stopped and your holding it or if it is sitting on the dash, is it really that unsafe?
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