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his month, Mike Budde and Joe Steimann set up a few
of my modules to film run-bys of some of Mike’s auto
racks. The weather called for clouds and colder tem-
peratures – not well-suited for a photo shoot. I all but gave up
and went back to calling for accounts. In that hour of cold call-
ing, Joe and Mike broke out the tools and had three sectional
photo modules set up and connected together with DCC and
sound. Hanging off the back hill, the scenes were held 8 feet
in the air with bar stools and mole traps, and foam shims hold-
ing the track joiners in line. It was nuts. One gust of wind and it
would be “party over.”
I grabbed the video camera and started documenting the
event. It was “game on” for capturing stunning video of long
model run-bys on 24 feet of mainline outdoors. What could be
better? It just worked. The sun was gone but video, unlike still
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