Thomas and Toby in the Sunshine

PineTreeJunction · Post by **PineTreeJunction** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:28 pm

Hi Folks,

It's been lovely here today in the bright sunshine and Thomas and Toby together with their friends have been busy on the railway. Hope you enjoy watching.

http://youtu.be/qn0vwpCeUWo

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:46 pm

Nice video, beautiful garden setting and brilliant, wonderful backing music........ I could listen to that all day!

PineTreeJunction · Post by **PineTreeJunction** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:53 pm

Peter Butler:99375 wrote:Nice video, beautiful garden setting and brilliant, wonderful backing music........ I could listen to that all day!

Hi Peter, Thanks for the great comment and glad you liked the video. It's been raining for weeks and weeks here so it was great to get out into the garden for a day's filming and playing trains. The garden is looking really colourful now so let's hope the weather lasts.

krusty · Post by **krusty** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:55 pm

That made me smile.
Great video...thank you!

John

PineTreeJunction · Post by **PineTreeJunction** » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:59 pm

krusty:99378 wrote:That made me smile.
Great video...thank you!

John

Hi John, Thanks for the great comment. These little videos are great fun to make and they make us smile as well. We started making them for the younger members of our family but we have found they are enjoyed by everyone. Hope you visit us again soon.

Woodfields Light Railway · Post by **Woodfields Light Railway** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:56 am

Lovely video, and camera work too! What made you go down the Thomas the tank engine route?

PineTreeJunction · Post by **PineTreeJunction** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:18 am

Woodfields Light Railway:99404 wrote:Lovely video, and camera work too! What made you go down the Thomas the tank engine route?

Hi, Thanks for the post and the great comment. We have lots of fun making these little videos so it's always nice when folks say nice things.

Why Thomas? Well, we started off with our 16mm live steam Roundhouse locos which are fantastic and still give us lots of pleasure running. We particularly like taking them to other railways, like the Charnwood Forest Garden Railway on the GCR.

Thomas started when we purchased a Thomas starter set for our grandchildren. One thing led to another and we found we had such fun making the Thomas videos that we just kept on. We found they are great to film and so we made some line side accessories and then purchased the Playmobil toys as well.

We like to think that our railway has now taken on a cartoon railway style where anything goes. The garden is also very important and we get lots of fun and pleasure from keeping it nice and watching the tress and plants change over the seasons.

So there you are. Lots of fun, lots of laughs and lots of cups of tea and sandwiches. Also, with lots of time on our hands, now we are retired, garden railways are a great hobby and making these little Thomas videos keeps us young at heart! Can't be bad!

Hope you visit us again.

Woodfields Light Railway · Post by **Woodfields Light Railway** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:39 am

Thanks for that, it is a truly beautiful railway. I thought you lived somewhere in america, as the weather in your videos is always sublime!

PineTreeJunction · Post by **PineTreeJunction** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:46 am

Woodfields Light Railway:99409 wrote:Thanks for that, it is a truly beautiful railway. I thought you lived somewhere in america, as the weather in your videos is always sublime!

Hi, Thanks for the lovely reply.

Our house is over 100 years old so the garden is well established with lots of mature trees and bushes. The railway went in about six years ago now when we retired. One thing led to another, as things do with garden railways, and here we are. I must say it give us enormous pleasure to just look out of the window and see our little model world in the garden.

Finding those little alpine plants to give that extra colour has been really exciting. This time of year is brilliant as all the plants and bushes begin to come into flower. We live in the West Midlands and we only try and film when the sun is out. That's why we don't make new videos very often.

We use a Canon EOS 600D camera with a 18-200 lens and edit on a MacBookPro in Final Cut Pro X. We also use a tripod with a long arm which gives you those crane effect shots as the camera sweeps and swoops over the landscape. It really makes a difference as everything moves in the shot and reveals new things all the time.

All our Thomas locos are converted to battery and radio control so no problem with track power. We can switch over to track power if we want but don't bother much.

It's amazing that our channel has been watched now over 10 million times as we only started this for fun and something to do.

There you go. Be careful what you wish for!

Hope you visit our channel again sometime.

Woodfields Light Railway · Post by **Woodfields Light Railway** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 5:37 pm

Is there any chance of seeing a picture of your whole fleet of locos?

PineTreeJunction · Post by **PineTreeJunction** » Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:10 pm

Woodfields Light Railway:99578 wrote:Is there any chance of seeing a picture of your whole fleet of locos?

Hi, Thanks for the post. It's a little while since we made this video but most of our locos are featured here. We shall have to make another one with our latest editions. Hope this helps.

http://youtu.be/BKe9PBrKbYs

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