Yes, congratulations indeed to the person who sent me a message within 2 hours of the blog going up telling me, and I quote, “I know who you are- Don’t try hiding it”. Now, since this person isn’t considered a friend or colleague, I can quite safely say that the person in question is wasting his time trawling the internet- Scotland Yard has far too many unsolved homicides that need your urgent detective attention. What gave me away? The link on my Railpage signature? The link on my fotopic? Anyway, well done all the same, you’ve certainly distinguished yourself in the annals of history.
Moving on, a word about DVDs. I picked up a couple of titles from Go Low the other day at $4.99 a pop. Of course, at this knock down price, I wasn’t expecting a great deal and am pleased to report that in this respect, I wasn’t disappointed. The first I watched, entitled “Driving and firing in the north west”, was 55 minutes of a 70 something years bloke sitting in front of a brick wall reciting anecdotes from the ‘good ol’ days’. Now, I’m not impartial to a good story, providing there’s actually some substance behind it but unfortunately, this was not the case here as me old chum prattled on and on and on and on about how he lost the coal pick going out of Kings Cross one day etc. Not recommended viewing.
On a more positive note, I can thoroughly recommend “NSW In Steam 2008 Vol.3”. This production contains excellent footage combined with some interesting but short behind the scenes servicing and preparation aspects. I don’t know about anyone else, but I generally get tired of trains just passing the camera for 60 minutes and nothing else and if railway operations were as simple as that I daresay I wouldn’t be bothered with it. There’s such a wide scope to play with I think- Include some workshop scenes, show them changing a staff or two, show a bloke raking out and it just makes the viewing all the more interesting.
Moving on, a word about DVDs. I picked up a couple of titles from Go Low the other day at $4.99 a pop. Of course, at this knock down price, I wasn’t expecting a great deal and am pleased to report that in this respect, I wasn’t disappointed. The first I watched, entitled “Driving and firing in the north west”, was 55 minutes of a 70 something years bloke sitting in front of a brick wall reciting anecdotes from the ‘good ol’ days’. Now, I’m not impartial to a good story, providing there’s actually some substance behind it but unfortunately, this was not the case here as me old chum prattled on and on and on and on about how he lost the coal pick going out of Kings Cross one day etc. Not recommended viewing.
On a more positive note, I can thoroughly recommend “NSW In Steam 2008 Vol.3”. This production contains excellent footage combined with some interesting but short behind the scenes servicing and preparation aspects. I don’t know about anyone else, but I generally get tired of trains just passing the camera for 60 minutes and nothing else and if railway operations were as simple as that I daresay I wouldn’t be bothered with it. There’s such a wide scope to play with I think- Include some workshop scenes, show them changing a staff or two, show a bloke raking out and it just makes the viewing all the more interesting.
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