Awesome! A YouTube video shot using a tripod! Charles Weston
--- On Sat, 3/26/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Scale layouts on utube To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011, 1:35 PM Of course one problem with searching for "S scale" layouts is that so many of them are not scale. Maybe just a small percentage of them. Some of the AF and other highrail layouts are nice but there are some really terrible ones too. I previously mentioned that Bob Werre's utube video is one of my favorites. _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzdur6DS57g_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzdur6DS57g) Another favorite is a video of the Piedmont S Gaugers. I received some information this morning about this group after asking a friend in the Blue Ridge Scalers about them. . "The Piedmont S Gaugers are a splinter group that broke away from ACSG about a year ago. ACSG still uses tubular track so they couldn't run the scale cars and locomotives that the Piedmont guys were buying. The Piedmont group has standardized on S-Helper track and Tom's turnouts and lay out their track to meet NASG standards". So I would consider this to be a "scale" club, a rarity in the South, as they probably can run both scale and highrail. I hope they will set up at the 2012 Chattanooga NASG Convention. Here is the link: _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AJPB5-UfOM&feature=related_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AJPB5-UfOM&feature=related) I especially like seeing the Seaboard E8 in action. As for Robert Graves' comments about videos of the San Diego club, let me say I have watched their videos numerous times and find them entertaining. And their website has some great information about how they built their modules. - Earl Henry, Nashville In a message dated 3/25/2011 9:54:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: From: Alan Lambert Robert, Now they start showing up. I will look them upin time. I knew that they were there just not how to find them. thanks, Alan --- On Fri, 3/25/11, Robert Graves <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: From: Robert Graves <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Subject: Re: [S-Trains] Re: scale layouts on utube To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Date: Friday, March 25, 2011, 5:43 PM Our club's website has nine embedded YouTube videos of our S-Scale layout - S-Helper track, Tom's Turnouts, and trains from S-Helper, American Models, Flyonel, and Gilbert. And I have a bunch more under my handle "ParkVisitor". --- On Fri, 3/25/11, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: From: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Subject: Re: [S-Trains] Re: S Scale Convention - scale layouts on utube To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Date: Friday, March 25, 2011, 12:20 PM I have found a few good S scale videos on Utube but most are really short, like 16 seconds, for example. But here is a really good one of Bob Werre's layout. It is a little more than 2 minutes. I would like to see some 10 minute videos of layouts like this and the height of the rails would not matter to me as long as its not American Flyer track. __http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzdur6DS57g__ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzdur6DS57g_) (_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzdur6DS57g_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzdur6DS57g) ) I hope yahoo does not stripe the link from this email - Earl Henry There are a few good scale layouts In a message dated 3/25/2011 1:47:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) writes: from: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Arlington, Texas I have to agree with you I have not seen one Scale Layout on U-Tube. Maybe they don't want us to know it is scale so we would watch it, Thanks, Alan Lambert --- On Fri, 3/25/11, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) > wrote: From: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) > Subject: Re: [S-Trains] Re: S Scale Convention To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) Date: Friday, March 25, 2011, 12:56 PM I am part hirail and part scale with my start in S beginning at age 5 when I received an AF set with Hudson and some very nice accessories.. I continue my interest in hirail primarily because of my wife's 5 year old grandson and some other young cousins that I have introduced to S gauge. My personal modeling interests have moved to scale and I am building modules that will be a mixture of code 100 and code 125 trackwork. Thus my interests in S are pretty broad. I think the Sacto 2011 Convention is extremely well planned and that Uncle Edward has done a great job with the schedule of events and with keeping us informed at every step of the process, starting more than a year ago. So I have no complaints. I am especially looking forward to the clinics on electronics (DCC, signaling, etc.) for all modelers of any gauge or flange depth, even though I fear that many of them will be over my head. The all day tour on Wednesday to see outstanding layouts in the area is especially appealing and it is a great opportunity to meet other S gaugers. There may not be highrail on this tour, I really do not know. But highrail tours are plentiful in most of our regions and you can see almost anything you would want to see (and a lot you would not want to see) of American Flyer layouts on Utube. Not so with scale layouts. Scale layouts are almost nonexistent in many parts of the country including Tennessee where I live. So I see the Wednesday tour of scale layouts as taking advantage of the best that S has to offer in the region. If one wants to see highrail, there is a great highrail layout that will be set up at the convention. This layout is nicely covered in an article in the Dispatch that I received in yesterday's mail. Plus one can expect to see a lot of AF stuff at the National Train Show (this is my guess, I have never attended a NTS before). Now having said all of that, I would love to have the opportunity to attend a clinic on how to lubricate AM and SHS locomotives ( I do not know if I do it right or not) and how to put scale couplers on American Models FP7s and E8s, something that seems a lot more difficult than I think it ought to be. I would also attend a TMCC clinic if it did not interfere with higher priority clinics or tours. Maybe some of the experts in this group might volunteer with off-line emails to Uncle Edward L. - Earl Henry, Nashville In a message dated 3/25/2011 12:08:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) writes: Sorry to observe that this convention has a very disappointing program with which roughly half of the hobby is ignored. Where are the clinics on Gilbert Flyer, modern hi-rail S gauge, TMCC, repairs, etc., etc., etc.? Joint NASG/NMRA conventions have not always been so narrow in scope (e.g., St. Paul, MN a decade ago). Are there any modern hi-rail and traditional Gilbert layouts on the layout tour? Doesn't appear to be. The NASG is supposed to embrace the broader aspects of the S gauge hobby. Just think from where over half the dues comes. California has robust constituencies in the operating, collecting, repair of vintage Gilbert Flyer and Lionel Flyer, as well as modern hi-rail enthusiasts who love SHS and AM hi-rail equipment. Logic would indicate that these S gauge communities be represented in the program. Nice web site, anyway...... Bob Bubeck In a message dated 3/25/2011 5:56:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _ (mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ) ) writes: Gentlemen.. 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