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At the East Anglian model railway exhibition over 14th and 15th March, 2015, I had the opportunity to take some videos of the layout, two of which show locomotives that I have built (but not quite finished yet!).

 

The first video shows my J17. It is built from a Stelfox kit, powered by a Mashima 1224 motor through a High Level gear box at 54:1. I have yet to add crew and cab glazing, two faults that are quite obvious when watching the end of the video! At the start of the video, there is also a quick clip of my Y7 0-4-0T that was being used as a shunter in the exchange sidings and appears in earlier blog entries..

 

 

 

The second video shows my E4 which is built from a NuCast (ex Stephen Poole) white metal kit. The chassis, however, is built from Alan Gibson milled brass main frames with a Mashima 1024 with a flywheel motor driving through a High Level gear box, again at 54:1 ratio.

 

 

I took the videos on my 'phone, so the quality is not bad, but it's not as good as it could be if I had taken in on a proper video camera. One of the results of the exhibition was 5 invites to future exhibitions, so I will be taking a video camera to those and see if I can get some good video footage.

 

I hope you enjoy the videos, I certainly do. Not that I'm biased! :-)

 

Phil

 

Edit added 27 March 2015

 

In view of the comments from other RMwebbers, I have now uploaded unstabilised versions of the videos so you can see the difference the Youtube stabilisation function makes. I would welcome comments on whether it's worth stabilising the videos or not.

 

Thanks

 

Phil

 

 

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sej

Hi Phil, lovely locos and beautiful running, (the dancing kid is good too!).

I'm very impressed by the smooth sweep of your phone video, does it have stabilisers??

 

Cheers

Simon

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Mikkel
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Lovely stock and scenery. Videos are always revealing of running qualities, and these show nice smooth running.

 

I think I recognize the Youtube stabilizer feature in there? (based on the buildings and trees that swerve from side to side, which is a side effect). 

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PGC

Thanks both for the comments about the smooth running - the quality of loco performance is highly important to me.

 

I'm afraid you do see the Youtube stabilisation feature in action - Youtube suggested the videos needed it and not knowing what effect it would have I accepted the suggestion. I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not? I will upload the same video and leave it unstabilised so you can pass comment.

 

Phil

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Mikkel
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I think it's a matter of taste. I personally like the originals better. I haven't got a clue as to the technicalities of these things - but I guess it's just a matter of time before the side-effects of Youtube's stabilizing gets ironed out, and then it will be a real advantage.

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