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Hoghead Bob


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Cy Valley wrote:


Bob, I suppose you're saying that the best you ever get is an approach, you never get what I would assume is a advance approach or an approach medium.


The BNsf calls a flasher an approach medium but means you are going to me crossing from one main to another. On MARRCO a flasher is an advance approach meaning the next signal is an approach. I don't know if thats how the BNsf does it on other territories. I feel the only get one signal before an A block to be kind of scetchy.   



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Uke is jealous... Sort of. Maybe. Sounds like you TY&E grunts have all the fun!

LAMCO can only allow so much fun ta be had by its workers. Low wage workers must limit their 'good' times/fun to off hours only.

Highly compensated workers [execs, train service, board members, etc.] are free to exercise their allotments while on duty, or off.

No restrictions are applicable. Bastards!

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The Krink wrote:

Well I guess they were good to go for 60mph as I
still can't believe this rollby. I hope at some time in
the future to get this video on the net for your viewing
pleasure.


Just diddlin round this morning with some tapes from long ago, how's this.....


 https://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh124/anonymouse69/?action=view&current=ra1.flv



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Bob...Uke gets freaked every time upon passing the crossover between Kelso and Longview. Friends lost.

Strange place. Ghosts... People in cars, trucks...speed past on the I-5 corridor adjacent, never stopping, or realizing what that monument is to rails.

Uke stops every time, and drives away with tears. And always thinks of the tragedy that's a blink away...

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Calvin wrote:

The Krink wrote:

Well I guess they were good to go for 60mph as I
still can't believe this rollby. I hope at some time in
the future to get this video on the net for your viewing
pleasure.


Just diddlin round this morning with some tapes from long ago, how's this.....


 https://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh124/anonymouse69/?action=view&current=ra1.flv


I still hope to get my video footage on the net of this empty coaltrain
rollby. I put myself 6-7 feet away from a passing timebomb where if
anything went wrong, I was a dead man. It was a rush and a victory
from chasing the damn thing for so long. I'm lacking someone to show
me how to get DVD footage transformed and postable. Maybe my niece
can show me.

 



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Actually having watched the whole "Extreme Trains" series,
it was ok I guess. Comparing to whatever else was on TV,
it was interesting. The dude doing all the talking reminded
me a bit of Billy Mays, the hopped up on coke advertising
personality. Perhaps if there is a "season two" of extreme
trains they can reduce the yelling a bit.

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Krink wrote:
I'm lacking someone to show
me how to get DVD footage transformed and postable. Maybe my niece
can show me.

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I bought a thingamabob called Dazzle Digital video creator 80, for about $50 at Walmart about 6 years ago. Used it once to make a MPEG for my Brother from a hi8 Sony Handycam. It comes with a program called Studio 8. 
I never read anything but bad reviews on it, so I never attempted to do anything else.
It dont work with my Vista laptop. But my old windows XP desktop runs it fine.
It has an adaptor that plugs into any available USB port and the other end has a place for you to plug in the yellow video jack, and the red and white audio jacks, or you can use an S-Video cable instead of the yellow video jack.
It's relatively simple to work, you input the video, then you edit it, then you can make a movie clip with varoius choices of formats. I picked MPEG cause it sounded like what I had seen posted before. I was trying to get it in under 8 meg so it would fit as a downloadable file on BJ, but it didnt go, and I have the photobucket acct, and it took it just fine.
It should be relatively inexpensive to buy something similar, with even better quality, and with the yellow video or S-Video input you should be able to hook up just about anything to be able to download into your computer.

-- Edited by Calvin on Saturday 8th of August 2009 05:50:01 AM

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Uke that was probably the worst wreck in the Portland area in recent times. Crazy thing is a wreck happened 10 yeas to the day, fortunately modern cabs nobody died.

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Had a wreck down in Georgia, red signal violation, four hurt.

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Calvin...I got a break a few years ago when my mom was
able to borrow my uncle Bob's Hi-8 video camera. My Hi-8
Cannon A-1 went tits up in the late 90's. I had a couple dozen
Hi-8 tapes in limbo for a long time that I was able to finally
get onto DVD's. For the most part it was basically copying the tape
with little editing other than to get the BN stuff together and the
UP, CN/CP, SP/DRGW, on respective DVD's. The scenes/footage
of every train still runs together just like it was on on tape.
If I was to try to extract a particular shot within a 44 minute
block of continuos footage would this program be able to do it?
I have this very shitty DVD player that I've used to make copies
of a couple of my DVD's. Atleast I've been able to breakup or
separate scenes into "chapters" that would make that footage
in a definite bundle to work with. I'm at a disadvantage also that
my number one computer will play DVD's but not record DVD's.
My friendlist in my locale is very low at this time. Nobody to take
me by the hand and teach me this shit.

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The Krink wrote:

If I was to try to extract a particular shot within a 44 minute
block of continuos footage would this program be able to do it?
I have this very shitty DVD player that I've used to make copies
of a couple of my DVD's. Atleast I've been able to breakup or
separate scenes into "chapters" that would make that footage
in a definite bundle to work with. I'm at a disadvantage also that
my number one computer will play DVD's but not record DVD's.

You hook up your DVD player to the adaptor just like you would hook up the DVD player to a TV. You can see the video playback on yer computer screen. Then you just play the DVD till you come to the spot you want, and then you hit input button on the computer to start inputting  that video you want into the computer.

As far as I know you can take many different clips (MPEG) and save them up just like making a data cd. But whether or not it would give you 44 different menu selections when you burn yer dvd I dont know. That would be a feature of the burner program you use.  
That is a pain in the ass I noticed with my DVD player/recorder. If you say save 4 different half hour shows on a 2 hour DVD it would be nice to be able to pick 1 of the 4 instead of having to fast forward thru 3 of 'em just to watch the 4 th show.
There is a way ta do it, I never took the time to read the instructions. it would seem that 44 different chapters might be a bit much tho...haffta check into it. 



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I was just giving an example. A 44 minute "stretch" of maybe 14-15
different shoots that are in a block of time. Say scene 1-3-6-9-13-14
were great and need to be isolated into segments. I know you know what
I don't mean. I appreciate your help Calvin.

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A: iMovie
iDVD

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Snip...is this a feature built into newer computers? I have a
Gateway that plays DVD's but can't record them. Could you
elaborate a bit?

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