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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Oct 23, 2014 15:29:15 GMT -8
well I finally got it together last night. I filmed, converted, edited and uploaded my first video in months after I lost all that video footage I shot in Cleveland at the National Train show in July. I came home, converted the video files and then the hard drive crashed!! I lost EVERYTHING! I thought I saved it with a program but I did not. I just took the hard drive to Best Buys Geek Squad today and paid $154 to see if they can "recover" the video files but I do not have my hopes up too high again! Anyway I went to my buddy Larry's house (The millionaire with a basement that is literally bigger than my whole house!). I brought my camera and a Bachmann SD70ACe to do a review of it that i bought three months ago and meant to do back in July!! Well it is done now! Do not get all bent out of shape because of the ending either. I do model reviews with honesty and to show that I thought the model was not good I got extreme. I choose to make my videos to be edgy and entertaining like the Dave Chappelle Show! LOL. Anyways, it has a great ending! Remember that model railroading is not a necessity but rather a hobby. We NEED food but we do NOT need Model trains. Well with all that said, be prepared to be shocked and entertained!! P.S. It feels real nice to finally be back even a little bit!!  STAND BY FOR: A Layout update from Larry's Layout and soon after, My layout! |
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Post by upcsx on Oct 23, 2014 16:26:00 GMT -8
Hate to say but I will do the same.
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Post by mlehman on Oct 23, 2014 16:30:17 GMT -8
OUCH!
FRA will have to come up with a new check-off box on the accident form for that one...
Good to hear the sound was decent for the $$$. I've been arguing Bachmann's nibbling away at the traditional $100 difference in MSRP for sound-equipped locos will eventually drive that difference down to ~$40, then eventually will just get rolled into the cost of the engine like they're pretty much done with putting DCC in everything except their low end stuff.
Now if they can just get the rest of the locomotive down...
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Post by atsfan on Oct 23, 2014 16:48:56 GMT -8
Al you never said what happened to the memory card in the video camera?
Was there some music playing on your video? I hear noises are they from the engine?
At least it has a fly wheel.
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Post by bigblow69 on Oct 23, 2014 17:28:26 GMT -8
Reminds me of what I did with one on my Atlas8-40c's from the latest run. Its in pieces in a box.
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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Oct 23, 2014 19:49:59 GMT -8
Al you never said what happened to the memory card in the video camera? Was there some music playing on your video? I hear noises are they from the engine? At least it has a fly wheel. hey atsfan - I do not have a video camera with ONLY the SD card slots, it has internal HDD. All the NEW HD cameras have moved from nice large 80-160gb internal hard drives to ONLY SD card ones or small 20-30gb HDD and two SD Slots. This camera is about 4-5 years old now and it has a nice 80gb internal hard drive in it. So I record right to the internal hard drive and not an SD card. (I also have a slot for an extra SD card but I do not use it) When I was done with Cleveland show I plugged in my camera to my laptop and CUT & PASTED the videos from the camera to my laptop hard drive. When that was done I unplugged the video camera and put it away. After converting the file from MOD to WMV HD in my laptop the harddrive literally FAILED and went dead. I tried many things to get off the data from the hard drive and even the video camera but no avail. My last attempt today was I brought the old hard drive that I had sitting in a draw for 3 months to Best buy Geek squad to give them a shot. They say they can recover my data from the drive (I doubt it) but I paid them $154 and let them have it. They said 3-5 days and I will have my videos and pictures transferred on to the external hard drive I got with the $150 deal. WE'LL SEE! as for the sound in the engine, it made some whiny noises but nothing too loud. Could have been the background song, "So Ghetto" by Jay-Z. |
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Post by grabbem88 on Oct 24, 2014 4:54:24 GMT -8
Lol! I think this might be the first ever "review" that ends like that.. Freak'n awesome!
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Post by bigblow69 on Oct 24, 2014 6:42:30 GMT -8
The EMD SD70ACE should have been cut into smaller pieces to make it unrecognizable.
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Post by alcoc430 on Oct 24, 2014 9:09:14 GMT -8
Even if its a Bachmann, what a waste. Must be nice to have money to throw away like that.
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Post by mlehman on Oct 24, 2014 9:14:04 GMT -8
Even if its a Bachmann, what a waste. Must be nice to have money to throw away like that. Here near the Big U, that's called art. And I think Big Al made a pretty profound statement there. [If it was me, I would've been sure and cut it so I could salvage the decoder. But I'll admit I'm cheap, even when it comes to my art  ] |
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Post by bigblow69 on Oct 24, 2014 10:50:19 GMT -8
I think I might try putting a "cherry bomb" inside a locomotive model and lighting it to see what happens. I may have some EMD around that needs to be toasted. I just got rid of some MTH stuff. Seemed like likely candidates for this.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Oct 24, 2014 12:34:07 GMT -8
Al, I gave up halfway through because I couldn't hear you over the other sounds. Maybe a separate mike, or even a voiceover?  ? Ed |
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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Oct 24, 2014 12:51:03 GMT -8
The Club members were loud that night at Larry's but you can hear what I am saying WHEN I TALK. They were having a demonstration behind me.
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Post by 071 on Oct 24, 2014 13:07:19 GMT -8
Got what it deserved. Junk as you guys would say. Good to see you back making funny videos Al.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Oct 24, 2014 14:45:22 GMT -8
...you can hear what I am saying WHEN I TALK. No. I can't. That's why I posted. Maybe everyone else can hear. I don't know. I'm surprised that YOU do know. But, that's OK. I just won't watch any more of your productions. Ed |
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Post by atsfan on Oct 24, 2014 17:51:54 GMT -8
Al you never said what happened to the memory card in the video camera? Was there some music playing on your video? I hear noises are they from the engine? At least it has a fly wheel. hey atsfan - I do not have a video camera with ONLY the SD card slots, it has internal HDD. All the NEW HD cameras have moved from nice large 80-160gb internal hard drives to ONLY SD card ones or small 20-30gb HDD and two SD Slots. This camera is about 4-5 years old now and it has a nice 80gb internal hard drive in it. So I record right to the internal hard drive and not an SD card. (I also have a slot for an extra SD card but I do not use it) When I was done with Cleveland show I plugged in my camera to my laptop and CUT & PASTED the videos from the camera to my laptop hard drive. When that was done I unplugged the video camera and put it away. After converting the file from MOD to WMV HD in my laptop the harddrive literally FAILED and went dead. I tried many things to get off the data from the hard drive and even the video camera but no avail. My last attempt today was I brought the old hard drive that I had sitting in a draw for 3 months to Best buy Geek squad to give them a shot. They say they can recover my data from the drive (I doubt it) but I paid them $154 and let them have it. They said 3-5 days and I will have my videos and pictures transferred on to the external hard drive I got with the $150 deal. WE'LL SEE! as for the sound in the engine, it made some whiny noises but nothing too loud. Could have been the background song, "So Ghetto" by Jay-Z. Yes that is the song. See if you can record dual to both the hard drive and an SD card also at the same time. If not use just the SD card. They are cheap so you never have to erase the video. |
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Oct 27, 2014 9:11:56 GMT -8
Ed, Actually, I could hear Al just fine. Al, Just for a fair comparison when you lined up the MTH/Bachmann/Overland locos together, it would have been interesting to have small signs (just handwritten ones) showing the MSRP of each one. While we both know the Bachmann & MTH & Overland are what they are, not every person watching knows that. And the chop saw? Classic Al Mayo. Um, can we expect a weathered scrap load coming soon? |
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Post by buffalobill on Oct 28, 2014 12:42:32 GMT -8
Al, that was great. Like Paul said it was classic AL. I think you let us know how you really feel about Bachmann's product.
Bill
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Post by atsfan on Oct 28, 2014 12:52:10 GMT -8
Al, that was great. Like Paul said it was classic AL. I think you let us know how you really feel about Bachmann's product. Bill Better would be using it in the Ninja blender commercials |
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Post by eh49 on Oct 28, 2014 14:25:26 GMT -8
Instead of destroying a new model, no matter how bad it is, it should have been offered to some disabled kid or somene in the hobby who can not get one himself
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Post by magerp on Oct 29, 2014 7:33:25 GMT -8
I agree, that was a stupid and immature thing to do. It must be nice getting free locomotives. I don't know anyone that would throw out $130. A better idea would be to donate/give it away in a raffle, or just sell it.
PS. The crazy thing is my Bachmann F-7 runs better than my Athearn SD40-2.
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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Oct 29, 2014 9:53:56 GMT -8
I agree, that was a stupid and immature thing to do. It must be nice getting free locomotives. I don't know anyone that would throw out $130. A better idea would be to donate/give it away in a raffle, or just sell it. PS. The crazy thing is my Bachmann F-7 runs better than my Athearn SD40-2. Free Locomotives? Please explain that one to us because I made it clear that I PAID $135 for that engine in the video. So maybe you know something I do not know. I surely could have given it away for FREE and if I gave it to you for FREE you could have said, "It is Nice getting free locomotives". Then your statement would have meaning. Otherwise I did not get it for free so explain that to me how it is nice getting free locomotives. |
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Oct 29, 2014 10:36:21 GMT -8
Last I checked, folks, it's a free country. If Al wants to spend $135 for something only to destroy it, he's got every right. It obviously gave him enjoyment to do so, and if that experience was worth $135, then so be it. Some folks spend that just going out for a night of fun. And who knows? Maybe he'll turn it into a wreck scene on his layout or a scrap load for his gondolas. Sheesh.
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Post by atsfan on Oct 29, 2014 11:37:27 GMT -8
Ever see someone heave a $400 driver into a pond after a shank ?
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Post by lvrr325 on Oct 29, 2014 11:45:15 GMT -8
Well, his to do with what he wants to, his time to show off doing what he wants to, up to the rest of us to formulate an opinion based on those actions; our right to have a poor opinion as a result.
Plenty of people in the hobby who are perfectly satisfied with this "junk" or don't have the budget for the more accurate stuff; if I had a case load of 1978 AHM GP18s factory decorated Lehigh Valley, I could sell them for $25 at least one a show every show I do. And I think those are crap - but when I was 12 I was happy with one. The last couple I sold went to adults -
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Post by Judge Doom on Oct 29, 2014 13:37:01 GMT -8
Well, his to do with what he wants to, his time to show off doing what he wants to, up to the rest of us to formulate an opinion based on those actions; our right to have a poor opinion as a result. Plenty of people in the hobby who are perfectly satisfied with this "junk" or don't have the budget for the more accurate stuff; if I had a case load of 1978 AHM GP18s factory decorated Lehigh Valley, I could sell them for $25 at least one a show every show I do. And I think those are crap - but when I was 12 I was happy with one. The last couple I sold went to adults - Here's 120 shells, all you need are 120 drives  |
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Post by lvrr325 on Oct 29, 2014 20:16:07 GMT -8
Those are bicentennial units; I've sold a few of those, boxed, originals, too.
In fact what I often do is buy the junkers and broken ones until I have all the parts for a complete drive, then when I run across a MIB dummy unit - not hard because they were so light they wouldn't stay on the track and didn't get run much - I just convert it to a powered. One of the LV units I just sold was a dummy when I got it.
It's gotten to where I can convert one over in about 10 minutes, and I've done a couple without even needing to resolder anything, although you have to take the brush caps off the motor to do that.
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Post by enginseer on Oct 30, 2014 4:53:30 GMT -8
If you buy a thing, you have the right to with it as you wish and I imagine if you collect brass it's quite a let-down.
I would have given it to someone, however, but that's me.
I wonder, would the shell at least have been worthy of a few detail parts?
I'd like to see what someone could do with one as a "cost-effective" experiment of sorts.
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Post by calzephyr on Oct 30, 2014 10:19:59 GMT -8
Big Al
How long can that blade last??? Your video will probably not be used in an ad for Bachmann, but that could be the good news of the story.
Larry
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Post by calzephyr on Oct 30, 2014 10:26:14 GMT -8
If you buy a thing, you have the right to with it as you wish and I imagine if you collect brass it's quite a let-down. I would have given it to someone, however, but that's me. I wonder, would the shell at least have been worthy of a few detail parts? I'd like to see what someone could do with one as a "cost-effective" experiment of sorts. The shell has molded on hand grabs. The least they could do would be leave those off completely and maybe have the dimples where a person could drill holes and install grab irons. They did the same type of molded on rear handrails to the tender of the their EM1 steamer and left off a lot of detail and added some that was not correct. It does not make sense to add detail molded on. People who do not know anything about trains would not miss them and the ones who might want to detail them would have to sand them off and repaint the shell. For me, the shell would be worthless. Larry |
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