First-person view from a model train

"daender" (daender) 12/23/2018 at 19:11 • Filed to: gopro, trains, model trains, ho scale, Railroad Sunday, Railopnik, RAILWAY SUNDAY, railways

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I recorded this yesterday at the Grand Strand Model Rail Road Club in Myrtle Beach, SC. I just so happened to meet the admin of their Facebook group and he accepted my request: to run my GoPro Hero2 on my six-axle lowboy flatcar. I had to record this in portrait mode since the GoPro is too wide to fit clear the tunnels and signals. Even then, the camera came within a 1/16th of an inch from making contact with the edges of the tunnel entrances and, if you listen last minute of the video, you can hear the plastic trees brush against it!

Here’s the fun part:

Mute my train video

Set speed to 2.0X for my video

Ready  !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Hit play on my video

Hit play on Star Guitar

Enjoy~

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > daender 12/23/2018 at 19:41

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Very cool! I still have my basic HO scale train set from when I was a kid! :)

NKato > daender 12/23/2018 at 19:51

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GoPro Hero 5 Session is what you need for this kind of thing. :)

Stephenson Valve Gear > daender 12/23/2018 at 20:29

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Nice! I love the video and the layout. Lots of work and talent to build something like that.

If you look at this video starting at 1:35, you will see a little bit of footage shot with a Replay XD on the pilot beam of a live steam locomotive. It’s a short video, but you might enjoy it:

daender > NKato 12/23/2018 at 20:37

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That’s exactly the GoPro I have in mind! It ’ll replace the Hero2 whenever it dies.

daender > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 12/23/2018 at 20:38

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Same! I’ll likely to join that group model railroaders since I’d have the benefit of being able to run my locomotives on a vastly larger layout.

...Well, I’ll join after I’m done racing the Miata!

daender > Stephenson Valve Gear 12/23/2018 at 20:48

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That was pretty awesome once that engine got up to speed!

Cash Rewards > daender 12/23/2018 at 21:11

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I took my kids to the one in Wilmington last night, and they had a wheel lathe out front. So big!

f86sabre > daender 12/23/2018 at 21:14

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Very cool. Nice to see the kids  in there checking it out.

daender > Cash Rewards 12/23/2018 at 22:40

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I need to go there eventually!