It sounds like the drive roods on the ol cab forward need greas or new barring!

Thank you Paul. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

"There's uncle Joe he's moving kinda slow at the junction. Petticoat junction." Lol 😆😆😆😆😆

Just absolutely blown away by the work on and the size of this layout. And the video work itself! Wow!

Thanks John. The staging area is not open to the public and is not considered to be part of the prototype area being modeled. Therefore there is no incentive to add scenery to this part of the layout.

Hi Bill, ok, nuff said about that. I didn't know that is the case. I wouldn't decorate it either if no one is going to see it. If you're interested in my other thoughts, just let me know.

@@johnpollock291 Thanks again John. I am always interested in viewer comments. However, I should point out that my role and interests at the CMRM are only as videographer.

Lower the sound on your computer or tv.

It sounded like the loco was working on only one set of cylinders. Would've been nice to hear the two sets going in and out of phase with each other.

Oh yes, thats what I did. Did not want to miss this awesome video.

@@kiwitrainguy It does sound like the drivers get out of sequence occasionally. Check about 20:30. (You ought to try to manually sinc four piston engines on a full-size DC-7 sometime.)

Thank you for posting. Did your grandfather leave any photos from his time working for the Southern Pacific? If so, there are many groups on the internet that would love see them.

Bill Rogers no photos

Maybe it was a snack for the creature lurking at 18:40.

​@@billr991 Yep...that explains it. LOL. Wife and I were visiting Yellowstone and a few other places. Epic trip! Took the Durango and Silverton Train from Silverton to Durango, after going down into the mines. Fun trip. Would have been great to have seen your museum. Must plan on it the next trip out there. Really enjoy your videos.

I seen the red spot, no carcass. Nice feature non the less.

@@billr991 LOL!

Thanks. Glad you like the videos. I was at a meeting just yesterday where we started development for a series of operations videos.

I look forward to those!

Lol the cam isn't inside the cab

That would be 39' and the sound would be very tinny.

You are seeing most of the scenery. The cab interior mostly obscures off layout material -- signs, windows, lights, etc.

Hi Ed, I shot that on my layout at home. I did a similar shot at the museum that I was going to use to introduce the cab forward concept to viewers who might not be familiar with it, but it was unusable. I didn't feel like delaying the video for yet another trip to the museum.

Our home is not quite that industrial looking. The cab interior is from a photo of an actual cab forward locomotive. Scott Inman who is a docent at the California State Railroad Museum took the picture of 4294's cab for me. The photo is actually of the fireman's side. It was flipped left to right and highly edited in Photoshop to make the windows transparent and to fix the lighting and color. The door on the engineer's side of 4294 is permanently blocked open by a new floor that was installed a while back. That ruins the engineer's side photos for cab ride purposes. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to superimpose the photo (with the transparent windows) on the footage shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video camera was a Sony FDR-X3000 action cam mounted on a depressed center flatcar. There are some clips showing the camera set-up at the end of the Eastbound Big Cab Ride video. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8mFf69otsmpooU.htmlm55s

Bill Rogers that was a mouth full but it explained a lot and great video

It was a cut and paste from an earlier reply to a similar question.

Bill Rogers oh well still it’s an amazing video

Thanks Joe. The cab interior is from a photo of an actual cab forward. Scott Inman who is a docent at the California State Railroad Museum took the picture of 4294's cab for me. The photo is actually of the fireman's side. It was flipped left to right and highly edited in Photoshop to make the windows transparent and to fix the lighting and color. The door on the engineer's side of 4294 is permanently blocked open by a new floor that was installed a while back. That ruins the engineer's side photos for cab ride purposes. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to superimpose the photo (with the transparent windows) on the footage shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video camera was a Sony FDR-X3000 action cam mounted on a depressed center flatcar. There are some clips showing the camera set-up at the end of the Eastbound Big Cab Ride video. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8mFf69otsmpooU.htmlm55s

It didn't. The camera was on a drop-center flatcar pushed ahead of the train. The cab interior is a mask applied in post production.

Yes we have done that. Watch kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gq6Jidl2x5nIdYk.html We've also used cameras mid train. For example: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMx8bMKfud7KdHk.htmlm45s and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hqqHpK6JtanGcmw.htmlm51s The emphasis in this video was a cab ride. So I stayed with a more or less continuous shot of the track ahead.

Two points: Drones pose an unacceptable risk to the scenery and structures. This is primarily a cab ride.

Bill Rogers keep them videos going awesome

You're right, the camera was not inside the model locomotive - as it says in the video description. I'm not sure why you say the view is all wrong, though: Bill made the mask from a photo taken inside the cab of the last existing Cab Forward locomotive, at the California State RR Museum. Unless you're referring to the fact that the view out the window is too centered, whereas the Engineer's view would be offset more to the outside. Unfortunately, the camera was too big to properly offset it far enough to the side. Very few decent-quality cameras are small enough to allow such an offset.