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radio makes it all possible, as you can operate the train and
the camera at the same time during filming. This month’s
Video has 34 video files, 30 text files, two music tracks, and
two sound effects, for a total of 66 files, compared to the
November Mike Budde video of only three files total.
I am working on the idea of an outdoor HO railroad loop
with straight and curved lift-out sections to change the
scenes from HO to On30 with the same track. On the back
loop, adjacent tracks in O scale 3-rail and N scale would
be in place to match up with front dioramas. This would
enable me to drop in scenes in various scales and be able to
1: Snow shot video clip still. This is a photo of a vid-
eo clip of a Milwaukee Road passenger train running
through a diorama covered with a little patching plaster
for snow. The lights are lit with DCC. On the video the
train runs past with computer generated snow falling at
a rate of 18,000 flakes per second. It looks fantastic and
very believable.
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