Tonight I posted a number of C&DR video clips on Youtube. They are all about 2-3 minutes and taken from a DVD I made a few years ago. The DVD has been available on the Society Sales stand for some time. None of the clips are in the public Youtube list. They can be accessed from the Dutch 009 group website on this page (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2009/pages/ecdrvideo.htm).
Today I completed another video transfer to Youtube. These are parts of various video clips I made of P.D.Hancock's locomotives (several of which were restored by Rod Allcock), running on my layout. The oldest one is a VHS recording made in 1994 when I had the CMR loco 'Colin' on loan from PDH himself.
Again, all are on private links so they aren't advertised on Youtube which I wouldn't like in view of their association with the Society. They can be accessed from the page devoted to PDH on the Dutch Group website (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2008/pages/epdh.htm), at the bottom of the page, which also includes photos made on several occasions. Hope you like this!
Yesterday I published a short video showing train movements on the C&DR, the movement book which guides them and the way the goods rolling stock tags are used to determine the movement of individual wagons. The movement book is a flip-over book which is a copy of the movement table compiled from the time/distance diagram. The goods stock tags are tiny steel washers painted in colour codes determining the destination station, with white dots determining the siding the wagon goes to. Some stock is always treated as express goods and has to be tacked on to the first available train. More information can be found here: http://www.009dutch.nl/cdr/main/pages/eoperation.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/cdr/main/pages/eoperation.htm)
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROSFO2Pxq6I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROSFO2Pxq6I)
Another fascinating and entertaining video Ted - thanks very much for your time and effort, in particular the recent "re-education" of another modelling generation of your very clever train tagging and operation system. The video quality is outstanding on your recent films - I have lost even more hours watching the new video on full screen when I should be doing other things - much better than domestic duties, resizing and editing photos and what is on TV this week!
I'm not too sure about the express goods fish van being put next to the engine ahead of the coaches if it was filmed during summer though! I think the passengers would have been forced to keep the windows firmly closed unless they like the aroma of day-old fish as well as smoke and coal dust wafting into the windows up in the Western Highlands!
Mick
Ted,
Excellent video, please can I just ask about the point control levers that are in some of the views - where did you get them from - I've been looking at the new Cobalt ones with some interest.
Mick,
Domestic duties - a bit like being on fatigues ! Should be shirked, avoided, delayed, get a sick note in for, pretend lack of knowledge of, prestend lack of training for etc etc at all times.
Oh, I'm just off to wash the pots !
Bob
Bob - The point levers are very old 1960s vintage (I think by GEM). At the time these were made of aluminium sheet with steel levers. More recent GEM ones are cast whitemetal with phosphor bronze levers. I have these at Inverlochan and they work just as well.
Mick - it might have been attached to the rear as well. But I'm not so sure a fish van should be very smelly as this would spell no good for the contents!
Today I published another video of the C&DR on Youtube, having compiled a few scenes I recorded over the months. There is 'Atlantic' on a local passenger, followed by the coal train running from Inverlochan to Dunalistair. The last few minutes are devoted to my vertical boiler loco 'Jock' pottering about the harbour. Have fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAtT4FbeWo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAtT4FbeWo)
Another super video Ted, you make the C&D look very realistic. One does not need much imagination to be up on the west coast sitting on the lineside watching the trains go by. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.
Roger
Thanks, Roger - glad you like it! Much of the fun is setting up the camera at track height to get just that impression you write of.
Very nice Ted, I do like watching trains go by ;D. Cheers john.