The program for the May meeting of
Rivanna Chapter, on Tues 05-21, will be "Mixtape#2" – a program of short
railroad videos, 54m30s duration. This
“mixtape” (or
“smorgasbord”) Rivanna Chapter program is a DVD of 24 short videos, many
only 1-2 minutes in length,
with the longest only 7 minutes. The range of subjects covered is very
wide, in five general categories: (1) MOW [Maintenance Of
Way], (2) Historic-Steam, (3) Contemporary-Steam, (4) Bad Things Happen
(crashes, etc), and (5) Diesels. These videos are all from the
Internet, and many of them are
very recent, some even less than one month old. A sample of the
subjects includes: BNSF rotary clears snow in Nebraska, a South
African 4-8-4 condenser engine does a runby, the British “Tornado”
engine arrives in a station, one derailed train in Brazil derails
another, an Oktokopter misbehaves while filming a train, a UP auto
rack train climbs the Tehachapi grade, a Caltrain "Baby Bullet" runs
through a station at 75mph, and the BNSF Masters Special does a runby
in Georgia on its journey to Augusta.
The silent video
during dinner will be "The Pennsylvania Railroad" [60m] -- Emery Gulash 16mm color movie footage 1952-1969.
