STrRedWolf wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:49 am
One silly way to fix this is to put a camera facing forward on the engine that is broadcast over Wifi to the entire consist.
Mr. Wolf, your thought reminds me of a '50's predecessor to IMAX called Cinerama. For one of their productions, they placed cameras on.the head of the then-CZ showing it running through the Glenwood Canyon and along the Feather River.
Oh well, that was back in the days when railroads actually promoted their passenger trains.
addendum: here's
more on the Cinerama production starring the California Zephyr.
Another "camera on the rails" I can recall (never saw it firsthand) was when the Rock Island assigned their Aerotrain to the Peoria Rocket. On the "dolled up SW-1200" switch engine there was mounted a camera feeding to a closed-circuit TV (a 21" B&W) in the Parlor Car. By the time I got to Chicago during April '61, that equipment was just another commuter train.