They should make ‘camera trains’ so you can wear 3d goggles and drive yourself from the cab, that would be epic
@chugwaterjack44583 жыл бұрын
The random motion of the cab mask adds just that extra touch. Thanks for clarifying how you did that (below).
@billhuber29645 жыл бұрын
Love these cab rides. Feels like the real deal 🚆 🚆😁😁😁
@paulsmith66166 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill, I was surprised and delighted with this cab ride. It shows a level of dedication from the model makers, with attention to detail not short cut, that is quite extraordinary. Bonus was the amazing detail and views from the cab. I don't think any other prototype could better the views, either steam or diesel. A visual treat as usual and I am grateful to you for the time and effort put into this production, which I am eating up on the other side of the world. My best wishes, Paul.
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Thank you Paul. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@josephcarames32495 жыл бұрын
one of the best , if not the best cab rides i've been on. The commentary was helpful and the occasional view of the train was great. I would like less of the window frame in the view and a few more full length shoots of train, showing it going uphill and down hill. Thank you so much - definitely enjoable
@indycar101 Жыл бұрын
This was much fun, well thought out meets, good dispatching, cool to behind the scenes, where operations are handled, so much hard work! Thanks for sharing! 🏁
@indycar101 Жыл бұрын
It sounds like the drive roods on the ol cab forward need greas or new barring!
@thomasarnold67442 жыл бұрын
That was the coolest ride I ever had. Got it saved and probably take it 2 or 3 times a week now. You guys are great. Thanks for the ride!
@jimaz65326 жыл бұрын
That was as realistic a ride that could be. Great cinematography and amazing landscaping. Thanks for all your time and effort in making this video. 🚂
@pcvsl672 жыл бұрын
Looks absolutely realistic and fantastic!
@lionellance6 жыл бұрын
Wow..what a ride..Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.. Lance
@johnpollock2915 жыл бұрын
The most beautiful example of model railroading I have ever seen. I'm a retired engineer from CSX so a little picky. There are a few things I would add in some of the signals and signage but, other than that, it's fabulous. I hope you are going to add some foliage to the bare spots around a couple of the staging yards but, like all of the model railroads I've seen, it's a work in progress. Great job.
@billr9915 жыл бұрын
Thanks John. The staging area is not open to the public and is not considered to be part of the prototype area being modeled. Therefore there is no incentive to add scenery to this part of the layout.
@johnpollock2915 жыл бұрын
Hi Bill, ok, nuff said about that. I didn't know that is the case. I wouldn't decorate it either if no one is going to see it. If you're interested in my other thoughts, just let me know.
@billr9915 жыл бұрын
@@johnpollock291 Thanks again John. I am always interested in viewer comments. However, I should point out that my role and interests at the CMRM are only as videographer.
@lorandefeyter21784 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these cab ride views! Thank you so much for posting them.
@capitallines6 жыл бұрын
Another great cab ride, thanks once again for sharing. I’m now off to re-watch the eastbound run!
@thomasabbott89746 жыл бұрын
Totally inspirational. An inspiring to see the Loop. An the rota that the Locamotive took. Real Amazing. 👍
@theeandlcmodelrailroad55283 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather was SP breakman in the 40s. Rode the rails through Donner to Tahoe from Sacramento. Met my grandmother in an RPO who went on to Post Master (Mistress) the P.O. @ Isleton, Ca. 95641 in 1950s. Grandad would tell tales of the Cab Forwards and the tunnels. Dad rode the SP to college @ Stockton, Davis & Sacramento and back.
In a word spectacular all the rest of the hard to beat this one
@the4000class6 жыл бұрын
A very realistic layout! Very enjoyable video. I have personally seen the layout many times but this was a new view of an amazing layout!
@jjf14006 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic, great work! oh ,I like it!
@JLH_LetsPlay5 жыл бұрын
That's pretty neat. I started singing the theme to Petticoat Junction. :)
@billhuber29645 жыл бұрын
"There's uncle Joe he's moving kinda slow at the junction. Petticoat junction." Lol 😆😆😆😆😆
@edwardstd526 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Especially since there were other trains running. So often when cab rides are recorded, they are the only train on the line and everything else looks dead.
@crossbow35392 жыл бұрын
Now that’s a true cab ride
@dianespeight66663 жыл бұрын
what a fanstatic lay out
@keithnorman87316 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the cab view. A Grandfather that died long before I was born drove these over the Sierra's.
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting. Did your grandfather leave any photos from his time working for the Southern Pacific? If so, there are many groups on the internet that would love see them.
@keithnorman87316 жыл бұрын
Bill Rogers no photos
@ScratchGlass93 жыл бұрын
Fantastic... great ride. Wonderful work.!
@renodowns52562 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the ride
@chugwaterjack44583 жыл бұрын
Nice touch with the open windscreen framing the shots.
@reefranger386 жыл бұрын
Beautiful scenery!! What a nice layout!
@reefranger386 жыл бұрын
Just absolutely blown away by the work on and the size of this layout. And the video work itself! Wow!
@gregsmith17196 жыл бұрын
Incredible! Thanks!
@core54506 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@kleenk85 жыл бұрын
Perfection! At 18:06, it looks like there may have been a collision with a poor unfortunate animal from another train. I think there may be a carcass along the hillside as well. Played that part at half speed, and that red splotch peaked my interest. May be just my imagination.
@billr9915 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was a snack for the creature lurking at 18:40.
@kleenk85 жыл бұрын
@@billr991 Yep...that explains it. LOL. Wife and I were visiting Yellowstone and a few other places. Epic trip! Took the Durango and Silverton Train from Silverton to Durango, after going down into the mines. Fun trip. Would have been great to have seen your museum. Must plan on it the next trip out there. Really enjoy your videos.
@Woodys_Workshop4 жыл бұрын
I seen the red spot, no carcass. Nice feature non the less.
@isaiah68able4 жыл бұрын
@@billr991 LOL!
@donwest18694 жыл бұрын
Positively outstanding!
@WestCoastRails6 жыл бұрын
Hi Bill..Love Love love these cab view videos!! (Eastbound diesel too) But I had to watch the steam Westbound in segments as the steam chuffs were constant mono, after 10 mins of watching I had to change the video or go running down the street naked screaming!!! lol ,,,many thanks for these great videos of Greeley , I need to go there
@barbdantreusch51656 жыл бұрын
Lower the sound on your computer or tv.
@kiwitrainguy6 жыл бұрын
It sounded like the loco was working on only one set of cylinders. Would've been nice to hear the two sets going in and out of phase with each other.
@WestCoastRails6 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, thats what I did. Did not want to miss this awesome video.
@chugwaterjack44583 жыл бұрын
@@kiwitrainguy It does sound like the drivers get out of sequence occasionally. Check about 20:30. (You ought to try to manually sinc four piston engines on a full-size DC-7 sometime.)
@larryvaughn25674 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video. If I had this layout and you guys had a feather we would both be tickled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jonnybeck67236 жыл бұрын
That was truly brilliant... the meets, the outside shots, the cab itself and the choice of 4275, the scenery and I especially dug the evidence of rock slides and the placing of rubble, etc.... Yeah, I really enjoyed the ride. A suggestion: If y'all could rig a "look back" shot when on a long curve... maybe with a mirror (?) or I know, a flatcar momentarily in front of the engine w/ the camera a bit to the side and pointing towards the rear, zoomed to take some of the engine out of the shot? that'd be cool. Thanx and... cheers
@thomasesthomas19964 жыл бұрын
Isn’t it amazing how tiny the cameras have gotten so far?
@mr.nobody19984 жыл бұрын
Lol the cam isn't inside the cab
@JKVisFX11 ай бұрын
What would be involved in creating realistic tunnel interiors, lighting them and/or giving the locos bright enough lights to light the interiors of the tunnels? I haven't seen a model railroad layout that has done that has ever done that. I think it would be very cool to see that done. Also, I don't think that cab interior overlay looked very good and it distracted from the view too much.
@stevenplanes3 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@COSF1016 жыл бұрын
Habitually, I'm interested in seeing it from Japan.
@J3scribe6 жыл бұрын
I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed your series of videos on the museum layout. The attention to detail and craftsmanship is just mind blowing. Any chance you'll make some videos of operations at Lakeview and Coos Bay? Those locations are sadly under-represented in your videos.
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Glad you like the videos. I was at a meeting just yesterday where we started development for a series of operations videos.
@J3scribe6 жыл бұрын
I look forward to those!
@JohnPW224 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! However, anyone notice the telegraph wire down at 7:57? Needs sorting before it drags a train into the creek!
@SilentGloves6 жыл бұрын
These vids are awesome, but could you post them without the overlay? I think it would be cool to get to see more of the scenery. Cheers!
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
You are seeing most of the scenery. The cab interior mostly obscures off layout material -- signs, windows, lights, etc.
@josephpruett56615 жыл бұрын
Not a big fan of h.o. layouts but this one is truly amazing beautiful all the way thru and amazing detail.
@rhbeadlejr5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if grinding a notch in the rails every 36 feet would give you that clikity-clack sound of wheels running over track joints?
@emil17775 жыл бұрын
That would be 39' and the sound would be very tinny.
@robertramsay59633 жыл бұрын
If that sound is close to authentic, how did the crews keep from being hypnotized into a deep sleep?
@isaiah68able4 жыл бұрын
I like how you darkened the inside of the cab as the train went through tunnels... very nice editing detail. Accurate height on the lens as well... excellently done! Do you have a shot of the camera rig?
@DonGomez0076 жыл бұрын
07:57 = "Better get a C&S crew out here... we got a power line down trackside near the girder bridge".. :-)
@thesheq50233 жыл бұрын
A 45 minute mainline loop. Wow
@fastslick30392 жыл бұрын
WOW!
@ulmasvids6 жыл бұрын
Where can i get overlays like this?
@dismaltie76664 жыл бұрын
I want a picture of cam how small is it
@1rotelaterne6 жыл бұрын
perfekt !!!!
@iamchrisbrewer4 жыл бұрын
Columbia & Cowlitz boxcar sighting at 4:21!!
@matteffm20902 жыл бұрын
❤️
@johnstreel736 жыл бұрын
can u put cam at the back
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Yes we have done that. Watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnm8h6l7l5iXe7c We've also used cameras mid train. For example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJevapKkid2Zeqcm45s and kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnW6on6OhaiVeJom51s The emphasis in this video was a cab ride. So I stayed with a more or less continuous shot of the track ahead.
@deepgreenish4 жыл бұрын
A stunning railway but I soon got tired of the cab gimmick as it just got in the way of the artistry we were passing.
@joevidal76166 жыл бұрын
That was great, love the interior of the cab, I've got to figure a way to do that to my C.F. was that an interior kit?
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Thanks Joe. The cab interior is from a photo of an actual cab forward. Scott Inman who is a docent at the California State Railroad Museum took the picture of 4294's cab for me. The photo is actually of the fireman's side. It was flipped left to right and highly edited in Photoshop to make the windows transparent and to fix the lighting and color. The door on the engineer's side of 4294 is permanently blocked open by a new floor that was installed a while back. That ruins the engineer's side photos for cab ride purposes. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to superimpose the photo (with the transparent windows) on the footage shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video camera was a Sony FDR-X3000 action cam mounted on a depressed center flatcar. There are some clips showing the camera set-up at the end of the Eastbound Big Cab Ride video. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5S4fX9thsh4qLMm55s
@normcox52235 жыл бұрын
Did I smell brake linings at 26:42?
@alcopower57104 жыл бұрын
What is the make/model of the loco at .32?
@rhbeadlejr4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an old sewing machine!
@sonysnapper6 жыл бұрын
At the start, about 17 seconds in, where is that? I do not recognize it.
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Hi Ed, I shot that on my layout at home. I did a similar shot at the museum that I was going to use to introduce the cab forward concept to viewers who might not be familiar with it, but it was unusable. I didn't feel like delaying the video for yet another trip to the museum.
@raptorproductions16396 жыл бұрын
Is the cab interior a picture from a part of your house or inside the engine it’s self?
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Our home is not quite that industrial looking. The cab interior is from a photo of an actual cab forward locomotive. Scott Inman who is a docent at the California State Railroad Museum took the picture of 4294's cab for me. The photo is actually of the fireman's side. It was flipped left to right and highly edited in Photoshop to make the windows transparent and to fix the lighting and color. The door on the engineer's side of 4294 is permanently blocked open by a new floor that was installed a while back. That ruins the engineer's side photos for cab ride purposes. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to superimpose the photo (with the transparent windows) on the footage shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. The video camera was a Sony FDR-X3000 action cam mounted on a depressed center flatcar. There are some clips showing the camera set-up at the end of the Eastbound Big Cab Ride video. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5S4fX9thsh4qLMm55s
@raptorproductions16396 жыл бұрын
Bill Rogers that was a mouth full but it explained a lot and great video
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
It was a cut and paste from an earlier reply to a similar question.
@raptorproductions16396 жыл бұрын
Bill Rogers oh well still it’s an amazing video
@Wawa111_Mainline3 жыл бұрын
How did the camra fit in that cab
@jimsteinborn3 жыл бұрын
It didn't. The camera was on a drop-center flatcar pushed ahead of the train. The cab interior is a mask applied in post production.
@johnspencer72914 жыл бұрын
THERES NO WAY THE CAMERA FIT INSIDE TH ACTUAL CAB OF THAT H.O. LOCOMOTIVE,WINDOW VIEW IS ALL WRONG,AWSOME LAYOUT THOUGH
@jimsteinborn4 жыл бұрын
You're right, the camera was not inside the model locomotive - as it says in the video description. I'm not sure why you say the view is all wrong, though: Bill made the mask from a photo taken inside the cab of the last existing Cab Forward locomotive, at the California State RR Museum. Unless you're referring to the fact that the view out the window is too centered, whereas the Engineer's view would be offset more to the outside. Unfortunately, the camera was too big to properly offset it far enough to the side. Very few decent-quality cameras are small enough to allow such an offset.
@jacksalvin3646 жыл бұрын
🚂
@andresroko60853 жыл бұрын
you have passenger trains and they can go faster .. they are very !!!
@tincuppassracing6 жыл бұрын
Need to fly a DJI Spark over that and edit some of that in. Otherwise Awesome
@billr9916 жыл бұрын
Two points: Drones pose an unacceptable risk to the scenery and structures. This is primarily a cab ride.
@tincuppassracing6 жыл бұрын
Bill Rogers keep them videos going awesome
@oat1384 жыл бұрын
Beautiful layout....plenty of hard work. That cab view kinda blocked the view and that irritating train noise....Killed the whole mood....But, thanks for trying to make it different.