Eastern Railroad Discussion > Time-lapse

I'm on a work trip to Pittsburgh tonight and don't want to spend the evening in the hotel so I have time to kill. Decided to try out the Time-Lapse feature.  Not going for any awards for cinematography so I just propped my phone up on the dashboard and hope for some trains. I got lucky with a near perfect meet between and WB stack and a EB coal at Homestead, PA.  Next time I need slower trains. 

Thanks go to PittsburghMike for tips on where to go.  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/16 17:07 by howeld.

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Definitely very interesting.

One more for tonight.  

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I bet you had a hard time counting all the rail cars, Very imaginative videoing and well done.

Lulz, tp117 should be happy, you showed all the freight cars.

Time Lapse mode is awesome. I'll try this with Pan Am trains to see if it appears to make them run faster! ;-)
 

I wish I could slow down the time-lapse feature on my phone.  I shot an entire run on Metra's UP West line (Elburn to Chicago, about 45 miles) out of the cab-car vestibule window about a year ago, and it took 24 seconds.  In that time we met or passed about 11 other trains, saw the NS's heritage unit for the original NS, and UP's D&RGW heritage unit, went through both sets of new crossovers west of Elmhurst.  But one has to be looking very carefully to catch all of this (in fact, the D&RGW unit didn't show up on any of the frames).

Carl Shaver
Lombard, IL

I agree. It would be nice if you could set the frame rate. It is just too fast unless train is creeping.

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