Originally Posted by: rbw993 
John,
I agree in that find that I find his cab ride videos get boring exactly because of the lack of scenery. In fact most cab ride videos aren't that well done, especially those that "feature" a lot of time spent in shattenbanhofen and long tunnels. Where the focus isn't the trains then good scenery has to be.
Roger
It is easy to criticize makers of train videos but in the end it is the viewer who has the last word., as much time and effort has gone into it, the end product I feel has to have a purpose and this has unfortunately been left out by most of them including myself, I must thank Youtube for pointing out or supplying information about my videos and its responses otherwise I wouldn't have asked the question.
On could say its wake up call, you may have done it for years but never actually studied or questioned your own creation and what effect it has or hasn't on the people who watch it.
I also think the days are gone whereas you could show a video and thousands of people watched it and had been satisfied with it but time has moved on and so has the static telephone to a mobile phone, from faxes to emails, and endless written accounting pages to computer files.
I've forwarded all the suggestions to my son and we've verbally agreed by making a train video it will at least take 5 - 7 days with a full on scrutiny and hopefully it will completely change the way we show videos in future.
I said before not all creations are successful and our layout is one of them, it is a remarkable achievement but has its floors and it was only after my son suggested to redesign the layout track figuration we have come to a manageable operation mode but other objects had to be left out.
it is also remarkable the layout is now existence for over 40 years and is still operational, where as most other layout may have been completely dismantled or gone to the recycling bin.
I've just watched a video whereas a widow is selling off belongings including her late husbands large model train layout, the selling price finished up with Euro 1600.00 (that including everything from houses to rolling stock and locos., unfortunately the relatives didn't or didn't want to sell the items themselves as it would have meant a lot of time and effort to sort it all out and sell the items individually.
My case is most properly more dramatic, who would buy a layout with measurements of 13m x 5m ?, I hope I get more enjoyment out of it instead of repairing or finishing it off to a stage whereas trains are running on each line (about 40).
I wonder how confusing it will be for viewers seeing 40 trains running (though not at the same time) and what impact it will have of getting a good understanding what it is all about.
The layout and purpose was originally designed to be exhibited as a public venue and with its 19 individual modules to be able to move from city to city and town to town but neither ever eventuated except 4 times.
We men have these grandiose ideas, some of them never get finished, some fail and the effort to restart is to much of a burden others finish their task but than the lack of patrons closes their operation.
John
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