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Post by masterdrain on Jan 17, 2019 19:00:50 GMT
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Lisa
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Post by Lisa on Jan 17, 2019 19:06:45 GMT
Looks like all the clips are sped up; I've seen the originals for several of those. In reality they're going dead slow, less than walking pace in some cases.
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Post by ettingtonliam on Jan 17, 2019 20:28:53 GMT
Yes, if you look at the clips which also include pedestrians, its pretty obvious that things have been speeded up. Fact remains though, thats still b---y awful track.
Reminds me of some tileworks tracks I had dealings with in North Lincolnshire in the 1970s, with 2' gauge Ruston Hornsby 2 cylinder diesels pulling about 6 little skip wagons. Even at walking pace, derailments were a daily occurrence, but the locos were so small that 3 or 4 chaps with scaffold tubes could lever them back on the rails again. Until, that is, one derailed and fell into the flooded clay pit. Fortunately, the driver jumped clear in time. The loco went in with the engine running, but after we helped out with the loan of our mobile crane to get it out, all it needed was an oil change, and the straightening of a push rod, and it was back in service. Tough beasties, those old Rustons!"
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mbrown
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Post by mbrown on Jan 17, 2019 20:33:05 GMT
I agree the track is pretty rough - but telephoto lenses always exaggerate every twist and buckle enormously. Most of these shots are taken in a way that would show the track in the worst possible light.
Some years ago, there was a "coffee table" book about preserved railways which had a shot of the Talyllyn in it where the track looked appalling - but it was taken with a telephoto lens and I could vouch for the fact that the train rode over that stretch just as smoothly as elsewhere....
Malcolm
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Post by runner42 on Jan 17, 2019 22:30:25 GMT
I see a video unavailable due to copyright claim by Geoff Blackmore Brian |
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