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We’re
happy to report that Trackside is now being aired in Program
host Dave Reed travels to We’ve updated the
“Contact Us” page with our email address.
Also, access stations in Fargo, ND and Sauk Centre, MN hope to have
the Trackside series airing soon. Updated home page. Hello friends and thanks
for checking in with our website. Like
we said on the front page, we’re back to work putting the finishing touches
on a new set of programs. As of this
writing we have the raw footage for 5 new programs on the editor and ready to
go. We’ve also mastered a significant
number of programs to DVD for distribution to those stations that can use
them. So much for the technical
stuff, you want to know about new train programs. Over the past year, we’ve been busy in that
department. In the next day or so
we’ll be updating the Programs page complete with video frames from all our
new programs including steam locomotives Pere Marquette 1225, Canadian
Pacific 2816, Soo Line 1003 and Nickel Plate Road 765. More trains from This summer we plan on
making a trip to Please stay tuned and
feel free to drop us an email. We’re not making the jump
to high definition television just yet, but over the summer we’ve been
upgrading our studio so we’re ready.
Many of our older programs have also now been digitally archived so
they can be duplicated and sent out to stations more quickly and
inexpensively. This summer we followed
Pere Marquette 1225 across Michigan (we even found sister locomotive 1223 in
Grand Haven), checked out Wisconsin & Southern’s 25 anniversary party in
Janesville, Wisconsin, returned to the Agawa Canyon, and even sent Dave back
to Russia. Look for these stories and
more this fall and winter on your local access station. Several things to report
this month, so here goes. 1). Trackside will soon
be airing on 2). Host Dave Reed is
scheduled to be in Owosso, Michigan for the Steam Railroading Institute’s
Pere Marquette 1225 excursion from Owosso to Cadillac, MI. Many thanks to the SRI’s Dennis Baird for
making this one happen. Be sure to
check out the Steam Railroading Institute’s website at http://www.mstrp.com for more information. 3). Dave just returned
from a photo shoot this afternoon.
These photos will be used for various publicity pieces and press
releases. 4). Be sure to check out
Rich Einhorn’s “The Train Show” airing on RFD-TV. Rich’s program is based in Trackside has completed
its current nationwide run on RFD-TV with the exception of one program. Many thanks to Patrick Gottsch, Al Stein,
and the staff at RFD for all they have done for us. And a special thanks to the staff at our
home station, Aurora Community Television for all their help with the video
transfers. When we get more programs
produced, RFD has express an interest in airing them too along with Program
135, Agawa Canyon Odyssey/Nickel Plate Road 597, which has not aired yet. No, you weren’t having a
problem with your web browser the last couple of weeks. In fact our main page on our Trainweb.org
site was down. Trainweb has fixed the
problem (couldn’t upload files) and we are now back in business. Of course the site going down coincided
with our conclusion on RFD, so the timing was perfect. Trackside returns to
Community Access Television in We can see the time down
the road when we can just email a station our latest program, they load it
onto a server, play it back over the air at the appropriate time. Almost all the
newsletters have been mailed. If you
didn’t get yours, please let us know. Might as well start of
the New Year with a new video frame on the home page. So we grabbed this distinguishing shot of
Canadian Pacific’s restored New newsletters go out
this week. If you’d like to be on the
list, shoot us an email at Trackside.Online@worldnet.att.net A Merry Christmas and
joyous New Year to all our friends and viewers out there. We’re a little late, but put the Christmas
cards in the mail yesterday, so if you’re on the list, you should get them
soon. Also, the latest edition of our newsletter is finally ready and be
mailed out in the next week or so. We are also getting ready
to begin distributing Trackside to stations via DVD. It will take a little experimentation to
see what works for them and what doesn’t, but it looks like The page for Program 137
has FINALLY been fixed. All of the
appropriate images should now be displayed. The digital re-mastering
project remains underway and the series continues to air via Dish Network and
Direct TV on RFD-TV. We are in the process of
digitally re-mastering our entire program series. These will have the newer Operation
Lifesaver public service announcements and revising the end credits to our
latest format. Along the way, some of
our older programs are being rebuilt shot by shot with new footage being
added along the way. Look for these to air on The page for program 136
has been updated with more technical info regarding the locomotives in the
photos. Our program, “Agawa
Canyon Odyssey / Nickel Plate Road 587” is now complete and has been airing
on Aurora Community Television. Our
next new program will feature railways in We are tentatively
scheduled to be in As program 135 continues
through the post-production process, we’ve updated the photo on the home
page. We are about a month behind
where we wanted to be on this program due to some bugs that popped up during
a software upgrade. Technology is
wonderful. Also fixed some typos on
the Programs main page. We’re happy to announce
that Trackside will soon be coming to public access television in New newsletter coming
soon. Fixed link for Suburban
Community TV ( Revisions have been made
to program pages 135 and 136. Program pages 132, 135,
and 136 have been updated and enhanced. All Program pages are now
online. We have used up all of
our allocated disk space at trainweb.org with programs 104 through 108 yet to
be uploaded. More disk space has been requested. All other pages and links
are now online. Program pages 110 through
136 are now online. Program 135, "Agawa Canyon Odyssey / Nickel Plate
587" is in the scripting phase of the production process. We will be removing all
video image captures from our Geocities sites as soon as we get our Trainweb
site fully assembled. This is due to a Geocities policy of limiting the
bandwidth available for transmission of data. The end result for the user is
not being able to access more than three or four program pages before being
frozen out of the site. We are working as fast as
possible to bring the Programs pages online. These are the largest and most
involved on our site, thereby taking the most time to modify. As of today,
Programs 100 through 102 are accessible. More to follow very soon. Happy New Year! We would like to welcome
all of you now coming to our site via Trainweb.com. We are very happy to be
on Trainweb and hope you will come back and visit our site often. If you have seen our site
before on Geocities, you may have noticed it hadn't been updated for a while.
This was due to some computer problems that prevented us from opening any of
our pages to make any changes. We now have that problem solved and will once
again be updating our site on a regular basis. While moving our site we
also took the opportunity to update most of the pages on it. If you find
anything not working or not making sense (a distinct possibility) please let
us know so we'll get fix it. We are diligently working
on an exciting new group of programs we hope our viewers will enjoy. Feature
stories will include the last excursion of Frisco 1522, camping out in the This past weekend we had
the good fortune to catch Soo Line 1003 head up Circus World's Great Circus
Train on a deadhead move from Program 131 will also
represent our first digitally edited and mastered episode. It will also be
the first program to digitally incorporate computer graphics. Also, program 102, "Alcos
On The Belt Railway Of Chicago" has been re-edited once again. This was done to
incorporate more information about the BRC mainline itself as it traverses
through Chicagoland. Just a reminder,
Trackside returns to Batavia Access Television on Friday, July 5th.
Also, Dave and Ken will be walking with the Wheaton Community TV group again
this year in the 4th of July parade. If you happen to be there, be
sure to say high. We are glad to announce that
soon you'll be able to get your own copy of some the segments you've seen on
our shows. Click here and send us an email if you'd like to find out
more. Special versions of a
couple of our programs are also available through a partnership with Machines
Of Iron. Check out the links displayed on the right hand side of the screen. This past weekend we were
fortunate enough to be part of two very successful excursion trips powered by
Look for footage from
both trips as part of upcoming episodes of Trackside. Many thanks to our
friends at the Chicago NRHS and those of you who stopped to say
"hi" on the train. We are very grateful. And for those of you out
there keeping score, Program 131, "On The Road With Soo Line 1003 / Camera
Day At Rochelle" is the next up in post-production. We have an equipment
upgrade to perform first, then we'll be ready to roll. Trackside producer Ken
Brown and host Dave Reed would like to personally thank a whole host of
people who have made it possible for us to get some great footage for some
upcoming shows. They include the members of the Camerail Club, The 20th
Century Railroad Club, Chicago Chapter of the National Railway Historical
Society and the Chicagoland members of the North American Railcar Operators
of America. You'll be able to see the results we came away with on upcoming
new shows very soon. This weekend we are in
the process of videotaping the second half of our program "Challenger
Across The Heartland" featuring Union Pacific 3985. Our trip this time
took us from Next weekend, it's
Milwaukee Road 261 and a trip to The next program in production is "On The Road With Soo Line 1003". Hope to have it done over the next couple of months. |
Welcome to
Trackside Online, the official website for the television series Trackside.
Be sure to come here often for the latest news and information about the
show. Want a tape?
Some variations of our programs are available through Machines Of Iron. Click
on the links below to get to their website. Indiana Harbor Belt / Alcos On The Belt Railway / Blue Island Hot Spot |
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