INCREDIBLE video of the 765

Great video. Curious question, I viewed on a library computer and the audio was reversed, anyone else notice this?

That is one of the best videos of the 765 I have seen. Professionally shot with a properly set up camera, good locations, nice scene composition, steady shots (he used a TRIPOD!) and clean, undistorted audio.

Many, many amateurs could take a lesson from this guy.

VERY nicely done.

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I viewed on a library computer and the audio was reversed...

What do you mean by "reversed?" I don't understand.

great quality, very sharp focus and color balancing. the sound is just outstanding.

Darn good video

Excellent video.

Rusty

Well done video. Not only the use of the tripod, ect., but something you have to watch when you buy a video camera.. a nice, smooth zoom in fact, his "zoom" in these video clips is so smooth, it's hardly noticed.

That Berkshire is perfect example that when all is in balance, that is boiler size, driver size, neat appliances and a perfectly matched tender, of a very good looking engine.

I think someone must have been messing with the speakers at the library, probably had the left/right reversed.

Ed M

That was a great video, clear and smooth and great sound. Yeah I think it's safe to say that the 765 is very impressive....that sharp exhaust is just music to my ears.

loved every minute of it

Bob -

Yes, I noticed it as well, played on my new computer with the speakers hooked up correctly. As the train passed to the left, the sounds passed on the right. But we're not complaining.

What an incredible video! I cringe at would-be great train videos with distorted audio, but this guy did it right. Our camcorders' mics just can't handle that much noise. Sound pressure levels are off the scale when a steam engine goes by, but using the right microphones to handle that kind of volume is essential. I would think those mics probably cost more than our Big Boys. Don (Scale Rail) and this gentleman did their homework. (For those of you who haven't witnessed a video made by Scale Rail, you will be just as impressed.)

Can you imagine watching this on the big screen in surround sound and sub woofers? Gives me chills.

Ooh, time to grab the laptop and pump it into my big screen TV and JBL surround sound.

That's certainly odd..all of my videos have played correctly right to left/left to right as they should..and so does this one. Huh.

Ed M

Hmmm... it plays correctly at my computer at work. Speakers are hooked up correctly at home, and here as well. Isn't that interesting .... must be similar to the gremlins that like to dance around inside our DCS systems.

Man! Thats almost better than the real thing!

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steady shots (he used a TRIPOD!) and clean, undistorted audio.

YES! Not the normal 'too much coffee' shots we usually get on youtube.

Was that you at the throttle Rich??? GREAT footage at any rate! Thanks

765 sounds great, even when hauling a "dog's breakfast" consist!

I'd love to see it on a photo freight!

Excellent! The audio here reminds me of an old Semaphore NKP 759 record
from the late '60s, which was the absolute best at the time.

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Originally posted by AMCDave:
Was that you at the throttle Rich??? GREAT footage at any rate! Thanks

I was running on some of the scenes, including the first scene where we start from a stop. There were a few others running the 765 as well, including Aaron Sherman and Chris Lantz.

Aaron was the hogger the day I rode the cab on the CVSR back in Sept. In "real life" he is a professional railroader with a lot of responsibility. Though he has not been with the 765 group for very long, he operates the engine as though he was born with the throttle in one hand and the power reverse in the other. Calm, cool, collected, just like the hogheads of old that we read about in stories from "The Day." I had a chance to talk with him quite a bit after the run, and was very impressed. His first encounter with the engine occurred on a ferry move over his employer's r.r., and he thought to himself, "Boy, this is pretty neat." So, he signed on, and the results show in this and other tapes. Quite a neat story it is.

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the first scene where we start from a stop

that was some first scene!! the whistle echoing. the aforementioned SHARP exhaust, the quick acceleration!

Mighty fine video. And fine work by the engine crew. The old gal looks and sounds great while at work.

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Originally posted by OGR Webmaster:

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Originally posted by AMCDave:
Was that you at the throttle Rich??? GREAT footage at any rate! Thanks

I was running on some of the scenes, including the first scene where we start from a stop. There were a few others running the 765 as well, including Aaron Sherman and Chris Lantz.

Rich did you have air on the train to make that engine bark like it did fantastic

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Rich did you have air on the train

He better have used the train air, otherwise that big girl would have accelerated that small train well above the track speed limit, at full throttle.

I had the air set while we were stopped. When we got the OK to move, I released the independent and opened the throttle. THEN I released the train brakes. So the brakes are releasing as we are starting. By the time the engine goes by the camera, all the brakes are released and we are accelerating "briskly" for the photo run.

Man that has to be one of the best demonstrations of steam power sound wise I have ever heard. This guy should sell dvds of it, especially if it is hd.

Brings chills to me. Great video.

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Originally posted by Kent Loudon:
I'd love to see it on a photo freight!

More here.

Fabulous sound. And it looked great full screen on my new 27" iMac.

Thank you for the photos, John. That shot of 765 roaring past the Carland elevator, with the IHC truck next to it, could have been taken in a zillion locations along the NKP in the early '50's, and really shows what daily operations were like back in that wonderful era.

I couldn't find it either

 

Thanks

clem

 

Here is the video!

That video will never get old.  Crisp clear video and the sound is off the charts...not to mention an excellent subject being filmed....