So let me get this straight... You think that I shouldn't make a comment on the operation of something, yet you believe that YOU can make a comment on MY opinion??? That it??? Boy, you must be loads of fun, ya worthless english twit cockolorum. Go fuck yourself, little man. And for the record, I'm not a model railroader.

Perhaps in an odd way, I do too. When the original O-scale layout was intact, I think much was lost on me, as I was a kid. As that kid, I just looked in awe of the cool toys I was seeing. In retrospect as an adult, I can say that the MSI layout did far better than others, but most O-scale layouts were horribly unrealistic, and pretty much toy-like in their appearance. Again, MSI’s was an anomaly, and maybe that’s why it was so popular. With O-Scale to me, all the size aspects are off, curve radius's are ridiculous, and operating speeds are a joke. I will allow that MSI HO-Scale trains are run too fast, as well, in my opinion. Outside of that, the scale of the (HO) display does allow for a far more realistic representation of reality than the original. With the O-Scale, there was no possibility for a “suspension of disbelief”. You ALWAYS knew it was toy trains. At least with the current layout, you can half close your eyes, and somewhat imagine how realistic this one is.

Not a commercial offering. They were custom made by a fellow that had some pretty nice pipe bending equipment.

@@mcresq65 ughhhhh, tnx for getting back. They look bad ass

Thank you!!!

Thanks. These were my last cameras before I shelled out the $$$ for high definition. They were pretty good in their day, but.... technology marches on.

@@mcresq65 technology does indeed march on

On the few occasions I've been up there, I mainly use a Polaris RZR. I have never put the RZR in 4WD for that, as it's just built for extreme terrain, and doesn't need it. Frankly, there's nothing that can stop those. One time only, I made it up with a Chevy Tahoe, but I don't think I had it on 4WD. I don't think I did. The road up is fairly bumpy, and a little steep, but if you have a truck, I'd think you'd be fine. If you have a car, well.... Were it me, I'd still go, but you're going to have to absolutely creep up. Now if that car is AWD, it should be fine. As for November, its POSSIBLE you might have snow here, but unlikely. And if weather conditions deteriorate significantly, (rain, snow, meteors, etc...) they will close off the final segment of road up to the structure.

No idea. My gosh that was 7 years ago. I can't remember last week!!!!

Gee, I think they usually call them "air" horns. Seriously, I don't know..... whatever they put on them when they build it, I guess....

@@mcresq65 from what i saw from a different video, it has a K3la (a bad one)

Yeah, they do get all over. Sometimes I go look at my Google timeline and think; "Jeez, I never stay home". It would be interesting to see a long-time plot of an engine's location history on a map, wouldn't it!?!?!?

Yea it would be, but have you caught the same unit twice though? Cause I have not yet, but I am wanting to get a 3rd heritage unit or special unit. But, what would your dream heritage unit to catch? Mine would be NS 8102 (Pennsylvania).

I just realized that you caught CSX 911! IT WAS ON 2ND CONSIST, YOU CAUGHT 911 BEFORE IT WAS REPAINTED!

@@OfficialRailFanTay_Productions I really don't look at them THAT closely.

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Thanks? I've since purchased (over time) 3 Sony PMW-EX3's. They do nice job for me as well. Side note, I recently found that all my original renders for most of the videos in this, were lost due to a hard drive failure. Grrrr.... Gonna have to go back to KZbin and rip a copy back down. Maddening!

@@mcresq65 Thank you for reply.. I will have to look up about the PMW.. I hope all OK there for you and family... I am not a train enthusiast but they are impressive and so is America.. Your video deserves 1000s more views.. I wonder if you re-titled would that happen...

@@sergeantcrow I honestly don't know how some videos get the views they do, and others do not. Must be some algorythem that pushes things to the surface, i dunno... I rause an eyebrow on the kind of vids where someone parks a fixed handicam, let's a train run by, does little to no editing, posts it and calls themselves "so-and-so productions". I mean hell, I've shot and edited "professionally" (music videos on my channel, and I'd never on e consider calling myself something-productions. I assure you, I'm super critical of my own work, but I DO think my train shooting tactic is sound. I don't understand, but, you know ... Oh well ...

Yep, I'm sure it's convenient, given all the headache of alternatives!

Cool

Jeez, I can't type!!!!

Thanks! That's ok. I don't get tons of views, probably not putting the right tag information when I upload. I do this so my wife and I can go do fun stuff together anyway.

@@mcresq65, I like how you put the contrast and saturation in it! That makes it look good

Editing is fun. Rarely shot and edited 'professionally'. But recently our local performing arts center picked up my wife and I to shoot and edit 14 weeks of local bands in the theater. I guess our city facility wants to remain "relevant' through this pandemic. Ok. We'll play. Not as fun as trains tho....

@@mcresq65, it’s fine! Trains are awesome.. I’m a railfan too and that’s why I subscribed

Thanks Bryan! I need to have a break from work, and home improvement stuff so I can go railfanning again for more videos. It's been way too long.....

Thank you. I can't take all the credit; the "acoustics" in that canyon work very well for that sort of thing.

Yep, they can sneak up on you alright. I live like 6-7 houses away from UP Joliet sub in Normal, and they went hornless here a few years back. Freights sneak in more often than not, but what's really annoyingly quiet are those new Genesis engines that Amtrak is using. You could get yourself run over it ya weren't paying attention!!!!