Re: Proposed C&TSRR: MP 287.50 Video ...

Right On, Brian -

And that train looks kinda familiar ...    

I'm thinking that if you or Roger or Steve got back up the hill a little way, you could
line things up so that Mt. Blanca would be right behind the grade crossing and trestle
culvert at Trolliessen and could video the train almost all the way from Antonito, across
Hangman's (Ferguson's) Trestle, around the curve at MP 286.75 and along the hillside as
in your shot above, whistling for the grade crossing and going across the culvert, and then
around the curve and all the way up the hill until it disappears onto the top of the mesa.
These were taken the day after the one you posted above:


It could be one continuous video of probably twenty minutes or more, with some zooming in and out and panning to keep it from getting monotonous. The biggest difference from my still shots above would be placing an HD video camera farther to the left so that Mount Blanca is behind the crossing and culvert - and far enough up on the hill so that you can see most of the way to Antonito and maybe even the top of Hangman's trestle ...

- John Russo Ford-Spielberg