Steam & Excursion > K36 #484 at a Country Road Crossing

Denver and Rio Grande Western K-36 class 3 ft narrow gauge, Mikado type, 2-8-2 steam locomotive #464. The Loco is one ten built (nine survive) for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1925 whistles for the crossing of County Road E5 just a few miles from Antonito, Co.

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Very nice!  Thank you!
 

Cool Half expected Butch Cassidy and Sundance to stop the train and blow up the express car.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/19 22:44 by kingman.

Your expertly done video was just the lift I needed this morning. THANKS. 

kingman Wrote:
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> Cool Half expected Butch Cassidy and Sundance to
> stop the train and blow up the express car.

Maybe not Butch and Sundance, but the one Indiana Jones show was filmed in this same area with the circus train in the 70's. Also a house in Antonito was
used where Indiana and his dad lived.  My favorite of the IJ series, with the Nazi's as the bad guys per usual(first one too).
Greg Scholl
http://www.gregschollvideo.com

"The Race Track" on the straight track out of Antonito.  I shot a similar ground shot there in 2014, and one of my favorites due to the fast-running (for NG).
Nice clear day too.  Nice job Ian!
Greg Scholl

Coming from the master, I'll take that.  Thank you.

You did gooood again.

Roger Hogan
Chama, NM
Train Stuff

Imagine running that wide open expanse at night in the winter time.........brrr!!!  There's not much out there!!

And how far to go until the next water tank???



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/19 22:48 by coach.

coach Wrote:
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> Imagine running that wide open expanse at night in
> the winter time.........brrr!!!  There's not much
> out there!!
>
> And how far to go until the next water tank???

Next water tank west of Antonito was/is at Lava about 10 miles out.  It was normal for westbound freights of get water here.  The ruling grade west from Antonito to Ccumbres is 1.42% (or 75 feet per mile).  Back when the narrow gauge was a busy operation, they would go west with a maximum tonnage 70 car train.  The engines would be running just as hard as they do today climbing the 4% out of Chama.  They did this day and night, 12 months of the year.  I've known a few guys who worked for the Grande and recall firing a midtrain helper out of Antonito in the middle of a January night when the thermometer was registering 25 below zero.  Slugging away with the throttle wide open Johnson Bar down in the "beat her hard notch", injector running wide open.  All night, until dawn at Cumbres.  Then being cut out of the train at Cumbres and drifting light down the hill in the early morning light.....

Eairk, do you write fr a living? I can't get out of my mind the image you built of that mid train helper pumping her guts out in the middle of no where on a bitter cold night. Who wouldn't want to be there? But probably only for the one night. Thanks, too, to the original poster. Great video. d

Thoroughly enjoyable....
Steam and sun..thanks for the "film"!

Pk

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Thanks, that was great.
TC

Very nice video! "Way out west" to say the least!
Nice sound too!

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

GREAT video!

Stupid drone-related question: how do you manage to record sound from the airborne drone without the mic being dorwned out by the rotor noise?

~Joe P.
Hainesville, IL

Earlk Wrote:
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> coach Wrote:
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> -----
> > Imagine running that wide open expanse at night
> in
> > the winter time.........brrr!!!  There's not
> much
> > out there!!
> >
> > And how far to go until the next water tank???
>
> Next water tank west of Antonito was/is at Lava
> about 10 miles out.  It was normal for westbound
> freights of get water here.  The ruling grade
> west from Antonito to Ccumbres is 1.42% (or 75
> feet per mile).  Back when the narrow gauge
> was a busy operation, they would go west with a
> maximum tonnage 70 car train.  The engines would
> be running just as hard as they do today climbing
> the 4% out of Chama.  They did this day and
> night, 12 months of the year.  I've known a few
> guys who worked for the Grande and recall firing a
> midtrain helper out of Antonito in the middle of a
> January night when the thermometer was registering
> 25 below zero.  Slugging away with the throttle
> wide open Johnson Bar down in the "beat her hard
> notch", injector running wide open.  All night,
> until dawn at Cumbres.  Then being cut out of the
> train at Cumbres and drifting light down the hill
> in the early morning light.....

Wow!  That's impressive history.  Wish I could have seen it!

The drone footage is shot silent.  There is no point of using the inbuilt mic as all it picks up is the sound of the rotors. For this clip, I also had two ground cameras running and the sound is a mix from these plus a third track of the ambient sound from the location.  I also have a library of sound recorded over the years that I can use if needed.

Rattie Wrote:
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> The drone footage is shot silent.  There is no
> point of using the inbuilt mic as all it picks up
> is the sound of the rotors. For this clip, I also
> had two ground cameras running and the sound is a
> mix from these plus a third track of the ambient
> sound from the location.  I also have a library
> of sound recorded over the years that I can use if
> needed.

Well, in that case, excellent job on the sound mixing/editing!  Again, thanks for sharing this fantastic footage!

~Joe P.
Hainesville, IL