The Mighty 261-new video

Nice video, thanks for posting.

Thanks for posting Dan!!

That 2014 trip looks more inviting!!

A very nice video, thanks for the post.

Dan, Thank you for posting this very nice video of the 261.

Like that song -

 "There's no need to drown your troubles down at the corner bar,

There's lots of pretty women sitting in the dining car!"

This video shows some of the possibilities that rail-fanning with a small go-pro cam mounted on a  quad-copter can give you. Note especially the first aerial view of the train and the shots taken of the train crossing the trestles. We had two of them buzzing around us on this last trip.. I suspect they will be increasing in numbers  soon.

The amazement of Hi-Def Video. Great clip.

Great video, I was on the trip on the old GN heading west the day before this one to Boylston...though a little of the trip I was on shows up near the end, so they must have been filming both days.

This was done for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis/St.Paul. "Life to the Max" it's hosted by WCCO sports guy Mike Max, interesting to see Ralph Jon Fritz hosting this one. He's been retired for a while, but most every local evening news programs he and others did at WCCO did back in the sixties and seventies. FWIW Fritz for years was the sports anchor on the evening news with Dave Moore as the news anchor. Moore's "Bedtime News" from the sixties is what Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is based on.

I just noticed one of the remote camera copters can be seen 6:52 into the video.This is the first video I have seen using this new technology.I like the camera views from the remote copters,but I slightly worry about one crashing into the train or a person.I wonder if the sound from the copters is annoyingly loud to anyone nearby it.

Dan