Many boring hours were spent waiting for run bys. Thank you, they are virtually non-existent in the few Cuba videos out there. Your vids have been up for only a year and most CZcamsrs are young and dont understand the value of this. I think the view counts are respectable. In my early years in New York rail fanning I didn't know or care about trains in New Jersey, let alone in other countries. This was when they were still running RDCs, pre-war electrics, PCC trolleys.
Yes I know all about boring hours waiting. You should try sugar cane trains which run to no timetable :-). But for us Cuba was OK with 6 trains per day, 4 in daylight as well as branch line services. My grumble about views was when compared with some other rather indifferent Hershey videos with over 20,000 views. I guess I expected too much. I noticed you have a NYC subway leaning. On different visits I took movie then video from 1976 to 1990 when there was graffiti everywhere. Do you think that would make a CZcams of interest?
Oh yes, anything of NYC would be quite valuable. I often get requests for more subway videos. Very little vintage video from hobbyists are posted, despite having seen camcorders around since the 1980s on fan trips. There are all sorts of sounds that are lost in the mists of old men's memory that should be preserved. Even still photos are valued, though they are not so rare as movies.
Thanks for the tip. I have not checked CZcams for NYC videos but assumed there would be plenty. It does now seem that I was taking movie and video while some fans were still taking B&W photos. And what does everyone want to watch today? 😊 Most of my viewers are parochial locals and shun overseas so I am wary about putting a lot of work into something nobody will watch but I will take you advice and do NY Subway. I also filmed Newark in PCC days. This week’s movie video of Detroit has had 145 views so far which is a lot more than expected so you never can tell. I’ll get onto it soon - ready in a couple of weeks I hope.
Watched this again, I have no memory of seeing it before! Great shots of the dispatcher, the public, the Brills. I hope this railroad can survive all the modernization of Cuba yet to come.
+Marc Conyard I really don't know but Cuba has quite a large population so I suppose that coal or gas were mostly used but if you watch the last minute of Part 4 you will see a lot of smoke coming from one of the chimneys of the Hershey sugar mill. As this was not harvest season, I suspected that the smoke was power generation. Mills anywhere often burned waste for electricity production.
@@tressteleg1 hi, these are really great videos. I was born in Cuba and lived in Cuba during the 90s. I’m a fan of the Cuban red buses and in this video I can see some of them in Jaruco, by any chance do you have / see more of those buses? Thank you.
I’m pleased that you liked the videos. I believe we captured the Hershey while it was still necessary public transport along the corridor. All useful video was used in this production so there is nothing more to add. After being picked up by the cops at Hershey, when they were told of their mistake they drove us back to where a bus could take us back to Havana. After a short time the bus developed a short circuit behind the dashboard, and that trip ended. But no photos were taken of that event.
Many boring hours were spent waiting for run bys. Thank you, they are virtually non-existent in the few Cuba videos out there. Your vids have been up for only a year and most CZcamsrs are young and dont understand the value of this. I think the view counts are respectable. In my early years in New York rail fanning I didn't know or care about trains in New Jersey, let alone in other countries. This was when they were still running RDCs, pre-war electrics, PCC trolleys.
Yes I know all about boring hours waiting. You should try sugar cane trains which run to no timetable :-). But for us Cuba was OK with 6 trains per day, 4 in daylight as well as branch line services. My grumble about views was when compared with some other rather indifferent Hershey videos with over 20,000 views. I guess I expected too much.
I noticed you have a NYC subway leaning. On different visits I took movie then video from 1976 to 1990 when there was graffiti everywhere. Do you think that would make a CZcams of interest?
Oh yes, anything of NYC would be quite valuable. I often get requests for more subway videos. Very little vintage video from hobbyists are posted, despite having seen camcorders around since the 1980s on fan trips. There are all sorts of sounds that are lost in the mists of old men's memory that should be preserved. Even still photos are valued, though they are not so rare as movies.
Thanks for the tip. I have not checked CZcams for NYC videos but assumed there would be plenty. It does now seem that I was taking movie and video while some fans were still taking B&W photos. And what does everyone want to watch today? 😊
Most of my viewers are parochial locals and shun overseas so I am wary about putting a lot of work into something nobody will watch but I will take you advice and do NY Subway. I also filmed Newark in PCC days. This week’s movie video of Detroit has had 145 views so far which is a lot more than expected so you never can tell. I’ll get onto it soon - ready in a couple of weeks I hope.
Would you please contact me regarding the proposed NY video? Use tressteleg(at)icloud.com with the usual symbol instead of (at)
Watched this again, I have no memory of seeing it before! Great shots of the dispatcher, the public, the Brills. I hope this railroad can survive all the modernization of Cuba yet to come.
The street running in Carabllo was nice! I like it when normal-size electric interurban railways run in the middle of a street
It’s great that you are enjoying more of that great Interurban. I agree about street running, something almost non-existent on any Australian Railway.
How did Cuba generate its electricity supply?
+Marc Conyard
I really don't know but Cuba has quite a large population so I suppose that coal or gas were mostly used but if you watch the last minute of Part 4 you will see a lot of smoke coming from one of the chimneys of the Hershey sugar mill. As this was not harvest season, I suspected that the smoke was power generation. Mills anywhere often burned waste for electricity production.
Thermoelectric plants provide the majority of the country's electricity, not to say all of it.
@@tressteleg1 hi, these are really great videos. I was born in Cuba and lived in Cuba during the 90s. I’m a fan of the Cuban red buses and in this video I can see some of them in Jaruco, by any chance do you have / see more of those buses?
Thank you.
I’m pleased that you liked the videos. I believe we captured the Hershey while it was still necessary public transport along the corridor.
All useful video was used in this production so there is nothing more to add. After being picked up by the cops at Hershey, when they were told of their mistake they drove us back to where a bus could take us back to Havana. After a short time the bus developed a short circuit behind the dashboard, and that trip ended. But no photos were taken of that event.