This 100 foot heavy train just used a little help to pull the 2.2% grade
Clem k
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....and more to come right Clem? 
MichRR714 posted:....and more to come right Clem?
You betcha 
That was 5 amps
I smiled when I saw the pusher...
AAargh! Vertical Video!
WHY do people do this??
i think i can, i think i can, i think i can says the lil guy !
OGR Webmaster posted:AAargh! Vertical Video!
WHY do people do this??
Must be laying on your side when viewing the entire world, I guess. Never could understand the penchant for people shooting any videos vertically.
OGR Webmaster posted:AAargh! Vertical Video!
WHY do people do this??
So true ...that would have been so much more impressive with the wider view.
OGR Webmaster posted:AAargh! Vertical Video!
WHY do people do this??
Rich, the TV news here does that all the time, takes horizontal cell phone video and blurs everything except the "narrow vertical view" in the center third, Why it is almost like they don't want you to see the entire story, simply baffling! 
Many videos posted like this one is won't play here so I can't view.
The TV news people do this because they were given VERTICAL VIDEO by some viewer which they use on their news broadcast. All the news outlets do this, even the big ones like Fox News, CNN, etc.
Professional videographers NEVER shoot vertical video.
I had no idea. Thanks for the tip.
Rod Miller
Cool train!
And, yes .... cool pusher!
OGR Webmaster posted:The TV news people do this because they were given VERTICAL VIDEO by some viewer which they use on their news broadcast. All the news outlets do this, even the big ones like Fox News, CNN, etc.
Professional videographers NEVER shoot vertical video.
Many times that is the case Rich, but these folks will do it even when given horizontal video as you can see the blurred left hand third and right hand third images blurred while the center third is crystal clear. Seems the news folk believe "Vertical" is the preferred recording style. (You miss so much it is like watching Cinemascope The 10 Commandments on a 32" picture tube:-)
BobbyD posted:Many times that is the case Rich, but these folks will do it even when given horizontal video as you can see the blurred left hand third and right hand third images blurred while the center third is crystal clear. Seems the news folk believe "Vertical" is the preferred recording style. (You miss so much it is like watching Cinemascope The 10 Commandments on a 32" picture tube:-)
When you see an image on the screen where the left hand third and right hand third of the image is blurred while the center third is clear, you are seeing vertical video with the blurred video used to fill the outside edges of the screen. If you look closely, the video on the left and right sides is the same video as what's in the middle. It may be enlarged and blurred, but it is still vertical video.
Well, vertical ideo aside I enjoyed it Clem. Were all 7 locomotives on the point powered? At 100' long how many cars were in that train?
I do know better about vertical ! and if you have seen my other videos I posted on the forum then you would also know that this is the first one like this. Tried to get all the change in elevation in and it was a narrow shot down that section of the layout. Sorry won't happen again.
Clem
Thank you...... GREGG, BRIANSILVERMUSTANG, EBT JIM, HUDSON J1E
All locomotives are powered. No traction tires except for 44 tonner. 5 amps on the hill, 4 amps on the level. Its actually over 100' long, I didn't count the cars, several articulated sets in there, 40' and 89' cars. A lot of die cast and heavy Atlas. A few unweighted Weaver, Kadee couplers metal and plastic.
clem
I liked the video before I saw your reasoning Clem!!! I must not be a video purist! LOL. Keep those trains rolling, and I don't care what format you use!! :-)
I am surprised that you did not have any coupler failures. That is a lot of weight, but is one cool consist.
Thank you
Stay tuned I'm going for 153 feet. When I get a car count, each articulated set counts as one correct ?
Clem
I swear i saw my old blue w/ white stripes Cobra...i had a 1:1 of these from Factory Five
Good job Clem. I see you had to try it.Too bad the webmaster hijacked your thread but it's his sandbox.
Jim
Well I made it 153 feet.......Its kinda hard to take a video of this and keep it under 100mb. And I haven't been able to post to my youtube account ever since they upgraded years ago.
Clem
Clem are the engines running under DCS. Did you create a lash-up? They seem to be working well together.
GREGG yes under DCS control. I gave up on lash-ups I now just put all the engines that I'm running together in the active engine list and use the ALL soft key. make sure only the engines you want to run are on active list. Much better than MU, because now I add engines without resetting everything. I thought ALL meant everything active on the layout, not true, only the active engines in that remote. Barry got me squared away on that. Other remotes can still operate other engines.
Clem
Great, Clem!
Peter
clem k posted:GREGG yes under DCS control. I gave up on lash-ups I now just put all the engines that I'm running together in the active engine list and use the ALL soft key. make sure only the engines you want to run are on active list. Much better than MU, because now I add engines without resetting everything. I thought ALL meant everything active on the layout, not true, only the active engines in that remote. Barry got me squared away on that. Other remotes can still operate other engines.
Clem
I never though of that... Great tip. Thx.
Gregg posted:clem k posted:GREGG yes under DCS control. I gave up on lash-ups I now just put all the engines that I'm running together in the active engine list and use the ALL soft key. make sure only the engines you want to run are on active list. Much better than MU, because now I add engines without resetting everything. I thought ALL meant everything active on the layout, not true, only the active engines in that remote. Barry got me squared away on that. Other remotes can still operate other engines.
Clem
I never though of that... Great tip. Thx.
I agree! Thanks Clem!
Vertical or not, that's an awesome video. Great tip on the use of the 'all' command. Fantastic layout as well!
-Tom
I enjoyed it all! But, I too am "sensitive" to the VV thing and LOVED the muppet vid about it! The VV situation is going to destroy civilization as we know it!
clem k posted:This 100 foot heavy train just used a little help to pull the 2.2% grade
Clem k
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