630 to Radford

Steve Freer · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:24 pm **Posts:** 380

All I can say is "WOW"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfHF9Y-TD1w

hi-plains · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:49 pm

The photography was great, but they needed to lose the music line; at best have used it only for the video intro... Better to have the ambient sounds of 630's operation for the soundtrack alone, my opinion...

jim templin · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:57 pm

Nothing quite like middle of the road, public domain, third rate Nashville studio muzak to screw up an otherwise outstanding video. Awful, awful, awful music.

Steve Freer · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:24 pm **Posts:** 380

Hey now...DIXIE DREGS is cool stuff. Maybe not over the top of a subject that has its own "cool sounds", but quality music none the less. Don't forget that the little whirlybird probably made some racket of its own that might have drowned out the train sounds "way down there" (if there was any rail audio at all during the drone shots.) Needless to say: unusual angles!

Tom Parkins · **Posted:** Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:02 pm

Nice work with the drone. I suspect we will see more of that in the future.

Thomas Travis · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:39 pm **Posts:** 78

Next time that Awful Awful Awful music is on a video, turn the volume off.
Simple solution.

John D · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:28 pm **Posts:** 485

Dixie Dregs were/are a phenomenal group (guitarist Steve Morse is also an accomplished pilot, plays Bach on acoustic guitar)...that said, for railroad videos, music is a nuisance and distraction at best. We're united in our enthusiasm for things on flanged rails; not so with music. Yes, turning the volume down will eliminate the music, but what's the point of a railroad video without railroad sounds...

whodom · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:30 am

Are you guys sure that's the Dixie Dreggs? I've never heard steel guitar on a Dreggs track before.

Steve Freer · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:24 pm **Posts:** 380

John D wrote:

...what's the point of a railroad video without railroad sounds...

The only way to do aerial video with "good" audio is to put a microphone on the locomotive. We tried this one time and the digital recorder cut out after a few minutes of enduring vibration. At that point it was either insert music or have silence with the video.

whodom wrote:

Are you guys sure that's the Dixie Dreggs? I've never heard steel guitar on a Dreggs track before.

I can't guarantee it, but sure sounds like the Dregs...or at least Steve Morse. Guess I'll have to check my collection!?!

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whodom · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:28 am

Steve Freer wrote:

I can't guarantee it, but sure sounds like the Dregs...or at least Steve Morse. Guess I'll have to check my collection!?!

Yea, you know you're getting old when you're shocked to find out Steve Morse moved on from the Dixie Dreggs and has been the lead guitarist for Deep Purple for ~20 years. LOL

southern154 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:54 pm **Posts:** 320

Even though is does not have anything to do with the Radford trips, it does have to do with 630. In the picture (link enclosed) the smokebox door looks like it has a smear of rust or brown paint on it. What happened?
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 448&nseq=1

mikefrommontana · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2014 11:07 pm

Paint failure? I somehow doubt the smokebox is worked up with oil and graphite, so paint it is, and if the engine's been working hard with good coal, things get how. Add in the humidity of the east and rust you'll get.

Michael Seitz
Missoula MT