{"id":2789,"date":"2009-03-16T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2009-03-16T09:06:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T14:06:05","slug":"taking-the-port-kelsey-ry-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Port Kelsey Ry. on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Railfair, 1994<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Continuing with my latest obsession of video, I dug up a real oldie. <\/p>\n

My last go-around with video was around 1993 when we bought our first video camera. Like everyone, everything we did was recorded for about 2 years until the thrill wore off. I got tired of trying to edit the video using 2 VCR’s, which inevitably took a whole day end left me with 3rd generation low quality video. Even with those limitations, I did make quite a few little documentary’s, usually having to do with building my former layout, the Port Kelsey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video above was one of those little documentary’s. I dug out the VCR and tapes yesterday and recorded them onto DVD’s so I could import and edit them on the computer. That sounds simple enough, but like everything related to video it had to be a 28 step ritual. Eventually I was able to get the video into a format that allowed me to edit the original video down from 45 minutes to a more reasonable 6 minutes. I am convinced that YouTube’s 10 minute video limitation will go a long way to getting people (like me) to edit videos down to a length that is watchable. One of the big issues with home movies is that they were always mind-numbingly too long! Really, just how much video of grandma’s parakeet can someone really take?<\/p>\n

This video shows us (Vita and I) preparing my old Port Kelsey portable (HA!) layout to take to a train show in Ottawa. This was the first time I had ever done a train show. I was invited up to Ottawa by the show organizers and they had agreed to pay for me to rent a van to drive the layout there, which came to over $600! <\/p>\n

A few years before this I had cut the layout in two to move it, and could never get it to line back up correctly, so in the weeks before this show I completely re-built the bottom of the layout to securely join it together into a single piece again. This added about 75 pounds of plywood to the layout. The video starts with a bit of me finishing off the rebuild with some paint.<\/p>\n

Watch as we do a nail-biting balancing act to haul this 200lb behemoth out of our basement and maneuver it into the back of the van. Somehow, between my brother-in-law Anthony and myself we manage to get it out without any damage. After a 6 hour trip each way, and a two day show, it is returned home safely.<\/p>\n

Hard to believe this was over 14 years ago, about 3 years before the layout appeared in Model Railroader.<\/a><\/p>\n

-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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