NS through Atlanta Amtrak Station

3/20/2011: I'm heading back home from a convention in downtown Atlanta. As I step off the bus across from the Amtrak station, I spot headlights up the track. NS is coming through, so I whip out the camcorder and what you see is here. Of note is the MARTA train that passes by in the background, and the hissing relief valves atop two tank cars (cars 74 and 77).

This video was a bear to get up here. It's one of the first I've done with my new Canon VIXIA HFM300 camcorder. The .MTS video files it generates aren't really compatible with YouTube straight out of the camera, and most freeware converters won't deal with them (Super©, my "old standby" just threw up errors, and Handbrake put out a video without sound that you might have seen up here a few months ago).

I finally got a working conversion using a tiny app called WinFF, that takes your settings and generates a script to run your video across FFMpeg in a command-line window.

For the less techie minded, I found a (free) program that does geeky typing voodoo to convert video using more geeky computer voodoo I already had under the hood, and it just happens to spit out a video file that I can put up here.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• atlanta
• georgia
• amtrak
• peachtree
• station
• brockwood
• norfolk
• southern
• freight
• train
• diesel

[AloneIStand454]

Good to know there is a fellow Georgian that likes trains

[RailRide]

@AloneIStand454

Actually I'm from New York City. I come into Atlanta one weekend a year around March to attend a convention.

I tend to get to the station about 90 minutes before the Crescent arrives, so 2 out of the 3 times I've made the trip, NS managed to roll something through while I was waiting. This time it was coming around the bend as I got off the bus.

[MartyLJ57]

Did you see that other train on the other side on the Hi-Way cross over the bridge?

NS Train Cool too!

[RailRide]

@MartyLJ57

Yep. That's the MARTA train I mentioned in the description. It's why the camera swings over a little when it appeared.

[aocruiser]

Awesome catch!

[Crocfan20]

Nice to see some standard cab GEs, excellent shot here!

[Southerntreatment]

nice lashup and smokers!