RIDE AROUND MY UPPER LEVEL WITH THE VL HUDSON

Wow !!
I cannot remember when I enjoyed a video as much as this.

Great job !!

Eliot

Absolutely fantastic!

What a great view, and the sound level in relation to the camera was just right.

Good job

Alex,
Great job on the old passenger car plus a great way to view an impressive layout.
PS
I love the Vision line Hudson!
Thanks for the video
Paul S

Really, really nice!

I especially enjoyed the smoke in my eyes!

Alex,

WAY COOL and NICELY DONE! Enjoyed every minute of it.
It was very realistic when the smoke swirled in front of the camera.

... and the layout is looking great as well.

Thanks for sharing.

Alex

THANK YOU Tinplate Art,Eliot,David,John S,Paul S,rthomps
for the kind comments.This was so much fun to do and I enjoyed
it so much.I'm going to do more in the near future because this layout
has a total of five main lines.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU AGAIN ALEX

I concur with the previous comments - that's one of the best videos I've seen. My daughter and I loved watching the layout & getting to see "behind the scenes" under the mountains. Thanks for sharing!

-Dustin

Alex, great ride! I wanted to duck every time we went through a tunnel. Better put some tell tales up for the occasional hobo or brakeman riding the top of a car!

Not a bad layout either.

THANK YOU Alex for the nice comments.

I would love to see everyone else do this if they can
so we all can take a ride on there layout's.
Next video I post will be my lower level 072 loop
and I will run it with the Lionel Pennsy J1A.

THANKS TO ALL AGAIN ALEX

Alex, That was one enjoyable video. Thanks for taking the time and making the considerable effort to share this with us. Certainly shows a first class layout and one very fine Hudson in action. Thanks to Lionel, too. Dick

Very Herron Rail-esque

THANK YOU Dustin,Pennsydave,Rmcraig,RickO
for the kind comments.I'm so happy that everyone is
enjoying it.This is great.

THANKS TO ALL AGAIN ALEX

Alex, your layout looks great! That VL Hudson sounds awesome too.
I like your idea for a camera car. My Flip camera is of similar size and shape. I,ve put it on a depressed center flatcar wit a screw through the bottom, but there are a few areas it still can't go. I'm going to try something like you did.

Alex,

Really enjoyed the trip and the great views along the way. Excellent!

Jim

THANK YOU Keith and Jim for the nice comment's
this was a lot of fun to do.Keith I tought of cutting
a hole through the passenger car because I had the same problem
with the height of the camera.I still need to put some bracing
into this camera car to make sure the camara doesn't move and some
interior paint to make it look better. Will post pics when done.


THANKS TO ALL AGAIN ALEX

Alex,

Well done!

Thanks for the ride.

Mike

Alex...what a great video!! WOW!!! Your layout is really nice and this is a wonderful way to show it to us. You are creating a very nice layout that is inspiring to see. Love the train ride...again, WOW!!!

Thanks,
Alan

Enjoyed this video. Your track work must be excellent based on the quality of the picture.

THANK YOU Mike, Alan,and wb47 for the very kind comments. It's a joy for me
to see everyone enjoying this video. This is wonderful.

THANKS AGAIN TO ALL ALEX

Great show, and I can't believe how long it takes a train to cover all the trackage of your layout! I hope you continue to experiment with the camera. When I bought the Lionel RailScope (HO) I played around with it, by having it face backward at a number of flatcars looking at the caboose, and a few other options in a train location. If you were to put it a few cars back, we might get some longer shots of the rod action of the loco.

Any way you use it, have some fun!

Alex,

Nice! The video came out real nice. I like what you did with that passenger car, it seems to make the camera ride nice and smooth.
You have to give us the name of that camera. It takes great videos. The layout is coming along real nice since the last time I came over.

I can tell you guy's its a fun layout to run trains on. He has so many tracks, and so many tunnels you can't figure out where the train is, or what tunnel it will come out of. It's a lot of fun. Not to mention his scienic abilities. He's got a great eye for it. Sorry if I sound like I'm bragging for him, but he's a great friend of mine. As well as a humble guy.

Mike R

Great train ride. I'd love to stay overnight in your town and watch the action.

HI Alex,

What brand / model camera are you using? I need to get one. Thanks for posting the video.

Thank you! Spectacular!

Peter

THANK YOU Tim O'Malley yes I was thinking of the same
thing. To switch the camera car to different location's
I'm going to try that soon.TO get some different looks.

THANK YOU Mike R. The camera car worked out pretty good
but it still need's some bracing for the camera.As you know the
layout is a lot of fun, it took a long time to figure out this
upper level run.As far as the scenery for some reason I have a
knack for it I guess.It's because I love the little model
train world.

THANK YOU Michael Hokkanen you are welcomed to stay anytime.

THANK YOU Drummer3 and putnam divsion for the nice comment's
Drummer3 the brand of camera is Kodak play full video camera.
go to kodak.com

THANKS TO ALL AGAIN ALEX

That engine sounds amazing! The layout looks great and the picture quality is first rate. Thanks and can't wait to see more videos!!

Alright---I have got to get my layout built

THAT WAS COOL

DUDE! That was so much fun! I feel like I just rode an amusement park train ride! Ok, I gotta go ... jump in line for another ride! Sweet layout too!

THANK YOU bigtruckpete,dorfj2 and Jeff
for the kind comments.I will post more video's
soon.dorfj2 I'm glad this video inspired you to
start you layout.Yes jeff its a fun ride.

THANKS TO ALL AGAIN ALEX

Alex, you have a fantastic layout and the video was great.

Thank you for sharing.

After watching that again, you better send that thing to the roundhouse, awful lot of rod noise after the 4:00 mark

Very, very nice Alex. Well done. Thanks for the ride.

Very nice video. Thanks for the post.

Wow, this was fun... can I go again?!

Great video... I should do the same.

I've been strongly debating switching over to 2 rail but it's engines like that one that make it hard for me to commit to it. That is just awesome.

Enjoyed the video! Thank you for posting it and nice layout!

This video of your VL Hudson is the best video I have seen in 11 years - makes you feel like your are on the top of the tender - Lionel should hire you to do promotional videos. When he became CEO of Lionel in 2000 Richard Maddox had some riding on Lionel trains videos made up but yours is first rate.

Hi Alex,

How about putting the camcorder on the last car and slightly toward the outside so we can see the whole train on the curves?

Here's a train cam my son did 10 years ago before HD camcorders were affordable.


TrainCam