Darren, I enjoyed your ARR video, though it's a bit long and the sameness of Alaskan back-country scenery got boring, so I skipped many sections towards the end...sorry. However, I really enjoy the photos you take throughout your journeys, you, and/or Lisa have a good eye for formatting interesting scenes....thanks for that.
Thanks Hank and I do truly appreciate the feedback as it helps me in making better videos in the future in knowing what works and doesn't work... Your comments are also inline with the statistics I am getting from YouTube as well as noted in the below chart. Overall maybe 1-in-4 have watch the whole video and the other 3-of-4 stop at about 8 minutes into the video. Right now the average viewer watches 6 minutes and 3 seconds or about 22% of the video. For me, I think the best part is likely in the last 10 minutes when it was no longer raining and we had much more interesting views and also got to the tunnels. [TABLE="class: GBGQP5VMW"] [TR="class: GBGQP5VLX"] [TD="class: GBGQP5VIX GBGQP5VEX"]Geography [/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VIX GBGQP5VKW"]Estimated minutes watched [/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VIX GBGQP5VKW"]Average view duration [/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VIX GBGQP5VGX GBGQP5VKW"]Average percentage viewed [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]United States[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]489[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]5:58[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]21.6%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Canada[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]62[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]7:47[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]28.1%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Russia[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]22[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]22:29[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]81.3%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Australia[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]13[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]3:20[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]12.1%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]New Zealand[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]12[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]4:13[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]15.3%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Japan[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]4[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]4:30[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]16.3% [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Netherlands[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]1[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0:43[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]2.6%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]South Korea[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0:00[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]0.0%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Mexico[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0:00[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]0.0%[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VEX"]Germany[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW"]0:00[/TD] [TD="class: GBGQP5VBX GBGQP5VKW GBGQP5VGX"]0.0%[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
1999: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park I was not able to get an angle on the Tunnel and bridges but did get a partial shot with a training crossing over them... [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
1999: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park I did however find a couple of postcards that show the bridges better; here is the first one... [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
Interesting to see an old bridge pier to the left of the trusses. Do you have any information on the old alignment, and why it was replaced by a much more crooked alignment, other than merely replacing the older bridge?
I don't know the full history but what I know might help answer that question... Remember, Lisa and I travel to this location as part of Civil War history. In 1859, John Brown led an attack here over a railroad bridge to take over the United States Armory and Robert E Lee (then a US Colonel) was dispatched to take it back from the insurgents. This location remained in contention during the Civil War because of these RR bridges and they were destroyed by military action four (4) times as well as destroyed by flood five (5) times. The old bridges were wooden and in the old supports will be seen better in the other postcard I will be posting next. Here is an old photo from the National Park site after one of those occurrence...
Also, if you look at the Postcard (in the middle) where the ROW roadbed changes from a light to dark color, that is where my first photo is taken at where the ROW is already elevated because of those floods. The building that stands by itself in the middle of the Postcard is the Civil War historical building that was the Firehouse & Guard House of the Armory that John Brown and his company barricaded themselves inside during their 1859 raid of Harper's Ferry.
Actually, there are two sets of abandoned bridge piers showing. I am thinking that one furthest left may have been roadway, as it seems to align with the street crossing in front of that firehouse/armory. The other pier is obviously the former RR route, looking at how roadbed beyond it lines up. But is there still track also going straight from that left bridge? Where it looks as though we can see a switch? Maybe it is time for some Google Earth...
Harper's Ferry is a fascinating place, with all of the history including the rail history that took place there. Only been there once, but it was quite enjoyable to visit the sites of the various things that took place there.
1999: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Here is the other postcard [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
Interesting, I never realized there was another ex-bridge coming in at right angles to the three existing and ex-rail bridges. Darren, or anybody, do you have any information on that bridge? EDIT - If I had bothered to read a few posts back, I wouldn't have shown my ignorance...."too soon old, too late smart." :blush:
What the area looked like, when that set of small white piers at left was in use. Those must be from a roadway. I was looking at it on Google Earth, and could not see it as having been railroad. If a road, wondering why it was removed...
1999: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Looking through the old video I took I found a few clips that I have pulled some still photos of some more RR stuff I forget I obtained...
Take a look at that old 1899 drawing I found (Post #371), it shows that old roadway bridge when it was still there heading off to the right in that drawing
I did look at that one. Although I was quite certain it was a road, I just could not be 100% sure it was, with the way they'd render their views as art back then.
