Re: Clearing the Line, Just like the Old Days
| March 20, 2019 08:39PM |
Jerry474 Wrote:
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> Greg Scholl told me that a train hitting a road
> crossing berm does not count as real plowing....I
> still think it was awesome. I was shooting video
> also that day and the snow from the flanger shook
> the camera tripod.
Thats right Jerry I did say that. It came from a local in Canada who was helping me shoot wedge plows in 1987 and 1988. Of course we did shoot some crossings, but many times we would go to the crossing and walk through the snow beyond the crossing to get it plowing. Crossing snow is generally plowed by the highway guys, and while it looks cool hitting it, it is sorta cheating in the minds of the Canadians. If anyone out there has my "Snowlow With CNF7's" video there is a shot at a crossing where I almost bought the farm. There was a lot of snow there, and I had to be there in close to see the plow train come under a tight underpass below the CP tracks, and the force of the snow hitting me seated in the driver side window knocked the camera 90 degrees, and you see snow flying around toward the windshield. I thought I was dead at first. My wife (Who was safely up a hill with my Canadian guide had to later clean snow out of all the exposed buttons on the recorder unit(Back in those days you had a two-piece unit....Camera, separate from recording deck(3/4 inch). Those guys in Canada, and others I knew from Michigan would wear football helmets when shooting plows. Of course they were only shooting stills, and would take the shot and as the snow was about to hit them they turned around and got hit in the back. With video there is no where to go, so I turned off and turned around, but the shot was a waste. This one I did coming under the bridge turned out to be pretty funny, and I actually sold the use of it to a TV blooper show, called "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments".
They had a montage of shots in a segment of things that happen to videographers.
The problem with some plow runs on the D&S is they were good about keeping the line clean, thus in the bottoms most of the time there was little accumulated snow for the plow to move, thus the crossings would have been about the extent of it until they got up in the higher elevations. I was just passing on the Canadian guys who scolded me saying plows on crossings was "Cheating"!!!!
Didn't mean it was a bad shot or anything Jerry. At least you were there to get it while I was in OHIO!!!
Greg
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2019 08:40PM by Greg Scholl.
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> Greg Scholl told me that a train hitting a road
> crossing berm does not count as real plowing....I
> still think it was awesome. I was shooting video
> also that day and the snow from the flanger shook
> the camera tripod.
Thats right Jerry I did say that. It came from a local in Canada who was helping me shoot wedge plows in 1987 and 1988. Of course we did shoot some crossings, but many times we would go to the crossing and walk through the snow beyond the crossing to get it plowing. Crossing snow is generally plowed by the highway guys, and while it looks cool hitting it, it is sorta cheating in the minds of the Canadians. If anyone out there has my "Snowlow With CNF7's" video there is a shot at a crossing where I almost bought the farm. There was a lot of snow there, and I had to be there in close to see the plow train come under a tight underpass below the CP tracks, and the force of the snow hitting me seated in the driver side window knocked the camera 90 degrees, and you see snow flying around toward the windshield. I thought I was dead at first. My wife (Who was safely up a hill with my Canadian guide had to later clean snow out of all the exposed buttons on the recorder unit(Back in those days you had a two-piece unit....Camera, separate from recording deck(3/4 inch). Those guys in Canada, and others I knew from Michigan would wear football helmets when shooting plows. Of course they were only shooting stills, and would take the shot and as the snow was about to hit them they turned around and got hit in the back. With video there is no where to go, so I turned off and turned around, but the shot was a waste. This one I did coming under the bridge turned out to be pretty funny, and I actually sold the use of it to a TV blooper show, called "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments".
They had a montage of shots in a segment of things that happen to videographers.
The problem with some plow runs on the D&S is they were good about keeping the line clean, thus in the bottoms most of the time there was little accumulated snow for the plow to move, thus the crossings would have been about the extent of it until they got up in the higher elevations. I was just passing on the Canadian guys who scolded me saying plows on crossings was "Cheating"!!!!
Didn't mean it was a bad shot or anything Jerry. At least you were there to get it while I was in OHIO!!!
Greg
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2019 08:40PM by Greg Scholl.
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