Well, since it seems this site is a bit slow I'll start a new
thread for those who are brave enough to put up their first
YouTube video. Mine, a KJ Miller trio, was taken on a cellphone
by my wife.
https://youtu.be/XKXLEKrTPp0Who is next?
??
Wayne
This is the oldest one of mine that I can find, a kit built "USE" oscillator with home made boiler, can't believe that was 8 years ago:
https://youtu.be/VZb30sy3e7ADave
This my first yt video from 2012:
A WBD Bischoff steam plant from Dresden Germany ca. 1930
before restoration - the first live steam test.
The duration for the upload was extremely long then...
Arnold
https://youtu.be/zAzzhUHy1f8
Hi,
Alas not as interesting as the previous videos, my offering according to YouTube was nine years ago.
https://youtu.be/VT3RJ7r-DSITake care Tony.
https://youtu.be/dxARxby02WQThe return of the Jensen 50's
6 years ago at Jensen MFG
Howard Shoe (deceased)
Tom Rumley (standing)
The Guy Family (working)
Dorita Guy (sales, assembly, shipping)
Tom Guy (assembly)
Andy Guy (machinist, assembly)
Jack Boyles (filming)
This is the #1 and #2 model #50's of the new Jensen model #50 release.
I picked mine up on the next trip.
#4.
Priceless
Bonour,
Wayne, good idea, here is my first one, 15 years ago and at that time I was not speaking... yet
Liva 1 is the first steam boat of my collection (the Côte d'Emeraude, my first love contact with steam when I was 15 came 3 years later) :
https://youtu.be/PZMHShJZBPUWill you recognize her crew
?
My first video (certainly a great cinematographic triumph - lol) was of my initial outside live steam railway just after it was built. And it ended as so many of my outings do - with a slight disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCTm_BgJJo
That is wonderful Larry!
What a peaceful scene in a pleasant garden setting that you have there.
I suspect that your trackage is very level overall, and that the raised portion in the foreground is simply to maintain your track level over ground that is falling away?
I tried to get it as level as possible and you're right, the trestle maintained that over the drainage swale from our backyard. I did find over the next few years that a ground level layout was prone to people walking on the track and all kinds of debris, leaves and sticks mainly, falling on it and difficult to remove. Eventually I built the elevated railway which worked a lot better and was easier to use and maintain. Sadly it only lasted about a year and a half as we moved from Ontario down to Columbus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRtICw1AYAY
Just my personal view, the ground level trackage looked far better, and was visually far more satisfying. However, back and knees no doubt favor the elevated railway, and unless you have enough space to create a gentle grade up to an elevated steam-up station, ground level is tough for oldsters like me. That being said, I'm still building on the ground, on some fairly good-sized sections of fill locally, but only gaining several inches over just being flat on the ground. I will of necessity be having an elevated steam-up station to accommodate my physical limitations, but I suspect that there will be many times when back and knee issues will have to be suffered to keep on having "fun"!?!?
Whichever way you are doing it, beats not doing it by miles!!!