Tom, In general I have to agree with you regarding the non prototypical
appearance of that train, but I do see that being done in the other
scales also. Not everybody knows all the rules and if we point them out
--well, we become the prototype police and that's not good either. So
no easy answers here. Having unlettered containers is my problem
also--I have several unlettered ones' also, but that's why I don't run
them at present.
My big problem is video photographing anything on a modular
layout--extremely difficult. I have done video, & seen videos by
others: and the problem is always marginal footage. First off you
generally don't have much control of the trains themselves, you have
marginal views that don't show stacks of boxes, tables full of tool
boxes, folks in the background doing everything from having lunch to
picking their nose! The angle of the camera will generally show above
the layout into the ceiling area with it's overhead lights that are all
distracting. As I've said I have shot this kind of footage that our
club as seen, but I certainly wouldn't show the world this stuff. That
being said, I have some 'decent' footage of my layout in operation. In
doing this sort of thing, you have to watch the sound level--no AC unit,
telephone calls, talking, and even switch machines are very bad. What
you want to hear is engine sounds, wheels on rail joints, and perhaps a
narration. Couple that with the visual aspect and you know why it
normally takes a three to four man crew to shoot pro stuff!
Interesting note here, I was working for the Houston Belt & Terminal a
few years back photographing the night crews. The train master and I
traveled into the bowl of their major yard (four switch crews working
four lead tracks, 24/7) area to check on one car being put into a
train. It was a loaded flat that was coupled to a tank car--a big
no-no. I doubt if many modelers know that rule when the switch crew
apparently didn't. Now if the flat had been a bulkhead everything would
have been fine. I follow that practice on my rr but there are tons of
rules I don't know--some being done for safety and others for crew
convenience.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
Tom Hawley wrote:
> I just looked at S-Helper Service's home page and noted under the
> third picture down an invitation to click on the picture and see a
> video of an intermodal train on a portable layout, presumable out in
> public where serious adult model railroaders can see it.
>
> What is the purpose of that train and that video??? The only thing I
> can figure out is "to make sure the public never forgets that S gauge
> is for the not-too-bright"?
>
> It's hard to see things clearly, the camera is too close to the track
> and the picture is all out of focus. But there appear to be some of
> those die-cast Tonkin 40 foot containers in several wells in the
> bottom position. Fair enough, but note no one has had the initiative
> to put decals on any of them, not even some under-sized decals.
>
> Two cars have 20 foot bulktainers stacked two high. That just isn't
> done in real raillroading.
>
> Most egregious though is the car that has two bulktainers, one above
> the other, and two other things, one above the other, that are hard to
> identify, but may be HO 40 foot containers or semi-trailer bodies.
>
>
>
>
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