AMTRAK F40PH Cab Ride - HO Scale (Elmhurst Model RR Club)

[@blkstang83]

Great cab view/ride along. The sounds of the cab make the ride along even more realistic.

[@AmberWaves444]

I agree with Stuart. I've watched a bunch of these videos and everyone's HORN happy! Overkill in every video!

[@gandalfthegrey7874]

Steve Forbes ever heard real trains in real life? They're all horn happy. Especially in out town.

[@markhayes6407]

Love the horn on that Amtrak engine. So realistic. The cab and ride also cool.

[@tomschmidt3165]

That was one of the coolest effects I’ve ever seen. Just terrific!

[@sfchemist]

The single best model railroad cab ride I've ever seen. Congrats!

[@xanadujohn79]

A little high on the cab perspective and a little fast running but other than that it is a work of art, and the cab view takes it to another level than just a regular video view. Great Job.

[@dixiedog1179]

My hat is off to ALL who had part in building this and to those who filmed this video. I find it very interesting and entertaining to watch and I am NOT a Model Rail road hobbyist.

[@Willysmb44]

Nice! This is one of the best model railroad layout 'cab ride' videos I've ever seen. Even without the graphic of the real cab interior, it's very well done.

[@122048trainman]

This is exceptionally well done. Sound track is awesome! Very creative perspective looking through the locomotive cab windshield.

[@Chitwn81]

Josh you outdid yourself on this video... Love the sounds as the train pulls into the station

[@GregPalmer1000]

Excellent layout, great video with the exception of the simulated cab being to high.

[@tacoblend3246]

+Greg Palmer I noticed that too.

[@CP_Trent]

Europa H2O Alien no not really. The cab should be lower than a cabcar is high

[@disturbed1954]

A amazing train ride! When you going home for Thanksgiving, I need to see a fresh layout tour of your railroad?

[@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp]

That is the coolest thing I've seen, The View is about 4 scale feet to high though!~

[@NorthlandTrains]

Oh how I dream of an awesome layout like that!

[@kenc4240]

That Is One Hell Of a Layout !!! Cab Ride Awsome !!!

[@TouchoftheBrushModelWeathering]

Very nice job bud! Beautiful layout!

[@bfs1054]

Nice layout... nice video... thanks for sharing!

[@Slv2therhythm]

Wow! That's simply awesome! Fantastic video!

[@acela2030]

Awesome video, spectacular scenery!, Love it!

[@davidbarrera308]

I like the trackwork and scenery, very nice. I think ya over did it with the horn blowing when there was no crossings in site. The guy talking about trying to dig up the gravel playing twice had me saying, wait what?? Other then that I was very impressed. Great job !!!

[@hovermotion]

A great vid , love the cab overlay ....

[@keithmiller1204]

Best cab ride ever!!! Thank you.

[@georgehamilton144]

Really awesome video! I enjoyed the ride thanks.

[@fredfoster9858]

This is a good video! The layout is great, it's just like your going somewhere. You've done a good job!!

[@iceeking2006]

Great clip in HD and without people wandering around. Thank you for posting. You think you might have another cabride clip like this soon?

[@tomc6064]

Best model cab ride video I have seen on YT. Loved the cab window overlay. Is there a map of the layout on-line anywhere? Would be fun to see where the train goes. I used to live in Northlake, right next to Elmhurst in the 1970's. Model railroading has come a long way since then.

[@BNforever2009]

been at the club a few times, pretty familiar with the layout now--enjoy being there too.

[@railroadguy100]

Great video. Seems like riding on a real locomotive

[@OldIronRC]

That's a really cool use of image overlay and real world sound recording. Makes for an entertaining HO cab ride. Well done.

[@MBTAMoreRailfan]

Congrats on hitting 18k subs!

[@mrsurfliner149]

2 years later and more than double that!

[@curraheewolf]

That was awesome!! Will you tell me how it was done? Happy railroading!!

[@Tennesseecentral6902]

STrains, the background is from one of MY videos... glad someone asked before they used the sounds...

[@bkriegel95]

Very nice realistic sounds!

[@robertkerr3059]

that is just about the darnedest thing I have ever seen !

[@raygoesbiking2942]

Dude that is amazing probably the best on board ride I have ever seen. I hope you don't mind me asking but I would love to see an onboard ride from a passenger car. Great video!

[@nsmodeler24]

Ill see what I can do next time im at the club! Thanks!

[@josephcosta5161]

Beautiful ride... Looks so real..... What decoders do you have in there ,? They sound so real... I want to get some I have 9 diesel's I bought new ready for decoders.,but I need great sounds like that .can you please tell me what you used in those , thanks, joe good sounds like that

[@theREAL9er]

i knew someone somewhere had to be doing this, awesome

[@eligebrown8998]

Great cab view. What kind of camera did you put in the cab

[@trainmandan05]

Nice job on the special affects.

[@MITracks]

My guess is that is a flat car with a camera, and then he added in the cab view. Still very cool.

[@TheEriefan]

Once again awesome video!!!

[@railfan8492]

WOW northlanderdude took the words right out of my mouth very nice video and that was awesome subscibed

[@rwundrock]

Very nice cab interior Key overlay. It is tough to get that camera lens down to the appropriate level.

[@WestCoastRails]

Hi Josh...wow, great video!!! I'd love to learn how to make one of these videos. Any suggestion to a web site?? or software?? Ive been to Elmhurst a few times, my cousins home town. :)

[@TheMrdavidlangley]

Very cool stuff, thanks friend!!!

[@dacuzzz]

that was very cool.. how was it done??? ..thanks for sharing vinny

[@jansirkia3809]

Absolutely awesome!

[@804titan]

this was awesome...how was this done

[@Mack11721]

Love the vid, great idea and well done execution. My only gripe is horn-blowing in the middle of nowhere and running through crossings and stations silent. I'm guessing the sound file came from another source? Again, love your vid and would appreciate more :)

[@maddennis55]

I was goin' to ask why the F40 cab was so high compared to the train and F40 that arrived, but I saw other comments making similar remarks.

[@Ferrocarril_Chicago]

Railtastic video! How do you get the camera inside the cab of a locomotive like that? I'm really interested to know.

[@WorldOfNothin]

well the cab interior looks to be a picture, I would say it was either part of a program he owns that allows him to place this over the video to make it look like the video is from inside the cab or he took the photo and using a program like photoshop, removed the window area so it was just empty space and then through some video editing added the pic with out the window area over top the video to give it the look! with the right programs and a little bit of knowledge on how to do it, this isn't necessarily a super hard thing to do!

[@Ferrocarril_Chicago]

Cool. Thanks for the info.

[@Mack11721]

WorldOfNothin Yeah, I noticed that the "sun" (lower right corner) never moves so I also believe it's a pic.

[@Ferrocarril_Chicago]

Interesting

[@brianmcdonnell486]

Nice video. How many stations are there on that track?

[@upsd402]

Very nice, nice layout.

[@jaystrainsandrailfanning5553]

I always thought that thats what trains were for. Horns, keep em blowin haha

[@prorobo]

Pretty good sound editing!

[@radanju2]

Nice train effect!

[@theengineerscab1317]

Nice very nice .. good edit too

[@airbornewithmicah]

i love amtrak can you make more video

[@kanel.6326]

That's one tall ass train

[@Xxalphawolf590xX]

Your layout is awesome i love the metra in the beginning but can some1 tell me how i can become as good as a model railroader as you please tell me!?

[@nsmodeler24]

Thanks! This is a club layout in Chicago, IL.

[@TenMinuteTrips]

Tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding, tick ding… I could listen to that all day! One of my favorite train noises! Thanks for sharing!

[@raritanlinelehighlineemerg2683]

what it looks like a model train how did you get the camera in there?

[@tylerthegamer4755]

fire engine1205/trainfan 7037 h he didn't put the camera in there it's just editing

[@as-guardianangel9360]

That looks like a train sim

[@davidkeady9175]

Great train set .

[@ulmasvids]

Where did you get the overlay/frame??

[@HazelEyz00]

Just getting started could you help me with any ideals

[@BNforever2009]

Damn!! That is cool!! How'd you do that!!!

[@prorobo]

Although the horn blows timing were off for the crossings. Still enjoyable.

[@farmerdave7965]

How did you get the video to appear from inside of a cab ? What software does this ?

[@drumday]

Heckuva ride!

[@jonwpb]

Great video! Really enjoyed it. Maybe allot less horn would make it better.

[@streetrace442]

Super cool!

[@NSTrainFan]

Josh, what did you do to get the cab/engine sounds if you don't mind me asking?

[@WorldOfNothin]

well I would say that the sound file was probably taken from another video that he overlaid with this video or he found it online from where someone else took the sound off a video and made into just a sound file!

[@WestCoastRails]

I'd like to learn how to do this....can anyone advise me? Much Thanks

[@Maddogtrucking]

What kind of camera did you use? And what car was it mounted on. It seams steady and stays in focus. Great video by the way. I am a former member and did a lot of scenery on this layout. I like how you made the ride along feel real with the cab view.

[@nsmodeler24]

Trent Blasco Go Pro on an Athearn flat car. Thanks!

[@Maddogtrucking]

ok thank you. Im surprised it did not tip over. I thought those cameras were kinda bulky for a HO scale flat car load. or is there a mini version of a Go pro ?

[@nsmodeler24]

no just a standard go pro 3

[@JessVideoDude]

This was awesome :)

[@simflier8298]

Very nice set

[@weathermannax416]

How long did it take to build this?

[@Luv345]

Incredible

[@sludge4125]

Stupendous!!!

[@lacybrown17]

Very Awesome!!!!!

[@PittsburghMainline]

How did you get the picture to be empty in the middle.

[@nsmodeler24]

Green screen effect

[@PittsburghMainline]

Thanks

[@wkblauwster]

PittsburghMainline you can also take a screenshot from train simulator and remove the window part in photoshop. save the picture in .png and you won't need the green screen footage any more

[@PittsburghMainline]

wkblauwster Ok, what do you mean by save it as .png? What photoshop program would you recomend?

[@wkblauwster]

the program is called Photoshop XD adobe Photoshop. i just use a hacked version XD to use it is really easy. and there are about a milion tutorials online on how to do it. 2. a picture can be saved as many differend file types. you have: .jpg .png .psd .gif and many more .jpg is the most used and has the lowes file size. .png has bigger file size but also better kwalitie and can save transparent backgrounds. .psd are the work files of adobe photoshop .gif are 10 ore more foto's that play after one another, making it look like a little video. to make the windows disepear in photoshop: first start a new file (1920x1080) for full HD make sure you click the transparent background button. and hit oke. then drag the screenshot or photo ontop of the background. now there are two ways to continu 1 use teh Quick scelect tool and celeckt the window area. then use the erease tool and just ereas the window. 2 you can do it all by hand with the erease tool for any more questions just ask

[@nbagb1689]

How the hell did you get the camera inside the locamotive please respond

[@nsmodeler24]

After putting out ads for months for small people, I finally had a bit of luck when a person responded who was small enough to fit inside one of my HO scale locomotives. I then handed him my working HO scale video camera and put him in the cab! I ran him around the layout a few times, paid him, and it was that easy! haha Im just messing with you... It was taken with a gopro camera mounted on a train car and then I used video and photo editing software to overlay the F40PH cab interior photo.

[@transitguy3339]

"Hey It's My Grammy"

[@SouthJerseyRailfan]

bus

[@nashgallo]

Sounds more like a CSX unit. I hear no HEP in the background.

[@bigB6flyer]

Very cool!

[@MrCudaguy71]

Really cool

[@LeonAllanDavis]

The title should be: "Riding the Horn"... One long, steady blast, all the way around... "Everybody stop what you're doing at look at me!"

[@UNIONPACIFIC3606]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@baconsnot]

If you want to use the cab interior overlay, you should mount the camera lower to give proper perspective. Or just leave the overlay off so I can enjoy the full view.

[@baconsnot]

+Bacon Snot Infact, just mount the camera lower either way. All these cab rides have the camera view so high, that in real life you'd have to be standing on top of the train to get that perspective. Pro tip: make a custom locomotive and strip it to the chassis to mound the camera at the exact operator position, and mount one looking out the side and slightly forward on one of the cars to give a passenger view.

[@Upguy-tj3gv]

That wasn’t the actual cab of the model was it?

[@Upguy-tj3gv]

Nevermind

[@jbond4078]

why does very one run trains so fast........ very nice video great club layout

[@timothymeineke1169]

J bond Passenger train?

[@northlanderdude]

this is an epic bitchin' video !!!!!! Epic trestle. where is this Elmhurst ??

[@nsmodeler24]

Thanks! This is a club layout located in Elmhurst Illinoise. It is about 15 miles west of Chicago right on the Union Pacific West Metra line.

[@northlanderdude]

You're Welcome. KOOL.

[@click789101112]

What is that at 3:24? A Weinermobile? Nice looking layout otherwise but the subtle jokes get stale quick.

[@trainglen22]

Wow!

[@proto_life_2003]

thats a nice piggy back train thare

[@maddennis55]

Excessive horn where not needed, NO horn where needed - at the crossings! Also, you're running near 90 mph, your passengers are probably bruised from being thrown against the car sides!

[@therookie9276]

Man shut the hell up. Since you're so 'Perfect' then why don't you make a model video?

[@michaelglass4701]

LOOOOVE IT

[@devonefoster105]

I love this this is so hot

[@Upguy-tj3gv]

What

[@devonefoster105]

@@Upguy-tj3gv The cab ride and sound effects

[@Upguy-tj3gv]

@@devonefoster105 oh of course

[@ALStudio3D]

Areyou sure this is a model? just kidding... congrats great work on this video

[@AmtrakBoy42]

lol, always wanted to do this