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therudycometh wrote:We're making a lot of exciting changes for next year - I can't say anything until the schedule and plans are finalized (towards the end of this month), but suffice it to say that the MERR passenger service is coming back with a BANG in 2014!As long as that BANG isn't a head-on with the Downeaster!
kilroy wrote:I don't believe that is in the plan book for next year..... and I'd like to keep it that way!therudycometh wrote:We're making a lot of exciting changes for next year - I can't say anything until the schedule and plans are finalized (towards the end of this month), but suffice it to say that the MERR passenger service is coming back with a BANG in 2014!As long as that BANG isn't a head-on with the Downeaster!
kilroy wrote:Nice video Rudy but you didn't get Red's Eats in Wiscasset. Best lobster roll in Maine and the burgers are goos too.That is a nice video.
Watchman318 wrote:Yes, Red's is in that scene at 0:08. Ironically, there is not another shot of Red's in that video because our video crew got caught in traffic on Route 1 chasing the train on the day they were shooting! Goes to show that there is something to be said for the train being a better method of transportaion! Oh, and I've been very satisfied the numerous times I've eaten at Red's.kilroy wrote:Nice video Rudy but you didn't get Red's Eats in Wiscasset. Best lobster roll in Maine and the burgers are goos too.That is a nice video.
I think there's a very brief glimpse of the back of Red's at around 0:08 in the video, just before the locomotive fills the entire frame.
Is it my imagination, or does that train seem to really "zip" over the crossing in that scene? Maybe I've never noticed it before; I usually wave to the engineer, then go back to watching the vehicles on US Rt. 1. I've found that motorists are less likely to use the "But I saw how far away the train was and thought I could make it" excuse for running through the activated signals if somebody with a camcorder seems to be watching them.
If the MERR is going to be keeping the rails really shiny next year, maybe that crossing ought to have gates some day.
Watchman318 wrote:Yes, Red's is in that scene at 0:08. Ironically, there is not another shot of Red's in that video because our video crew got caught in traffic on Route 1 chasing the train on the day they were shooting! Goes to show that there is something to be said for the train being a better method of transportaion! Oh, and I've been very satisfied the numerous times I've eaten at Red's.kilroy wrote:Nice video Rudy but you didn't get Red's Eats in Wiscasset. Best lobster roll in Maine and the burgers are goos too.That is a nice video.
I think there's a very brief glimpse of the back of Red's at around 0:08 in the video, just before the locomotive fills the entire frame.
Is it my imagination, or does that train seem to really "zip" over the crossing in that scene? Maybe I've never noticed it before; I usually wave to the engineer, then go back to watching the vehicles on US Rt. 1. I've found that motorists are less likely to use the "But I saw how far away the train was and thought I could make it" excuse for running through the activated signals if somebody with a camcorder seems to be watching them.
If the MERR is going to be keeping the rails really shiny next year, maybe that crossing ought to have gates some day.
therudycometh wrote:As far as the speed, that scene was sped up so we could cram as much visual information as possible into a 3-minute video.Ah ha; I thought it might be something like that. It's not like speeding up a film/video of a person or something else with legs, so it becomes obvious that there's more going on than how it first appears.
