Archive for October, 2007

A Visit To The Harbor

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

There was a train show today at the restored CNJ terminal at Liberty State Park in Jersey City.  Bob, his daughters, and I drove up.  While the show was quite small and not really worthy of mention, the terminal has been beautifully restored and is worth seeing on its own.  They now have ferries running from the park to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty and, since it was a rare lovely warm October day, we took the ferry.  The salt air was wonderful and the scenery is spectacular.  I'll be posting lots of photos of the CNJ terminal, the park, the NYC skyline, NY harbor, Ellis Island, and the Statue of Liberty on the new Liberty page in the Pets/Misc section of my Roses web site.  Meanwhile, as a teaser, here's the CNJ terminal (taken from the ferry) and the Statue of Liberty.

CNJ Terminal

Statue of Liberty

YouTube Is Something Else!

Friday, October 5th, 2007

About seven months ago, as an experiment I tried uploading one of my train videos (available on the Multimedia page of my web site) to YouTube.  Though YouTube converts the videos to Flash, reducing the resolution and quality from the formats I have available on the web site (Windows Media, Real Media, and MPEG-4), it was potentially a whole new audience.  I was pleased to find that the video gathered quite a few views, so I uploaded a few more videos, then a few more ….  Fast forward to the present, I have eighty train videos on YouTube.  I just took a look and, in total, they've garnered just shy of 400,000 views!  Even more interesting is that if you search for O-Gauge and look at the top twenty most-viewed videos, five of those top twenty are mine!  Needless to say, I judge the experiment a success!  Laughing