last weekend, SteamRail Victoria ran a pair of steam engines and some carriages along the Mount Waverley suburban rail line. (the train, a little later in the day)
_MG_5226-1 by
asphotos, on Flickr
we took the kids, and I took my gopro camera to get some interesting footage.
i attached the gopro to the outside window of the carriage we were in, the window was a little grubby, but it seemed to suction on OK, and seemed firm, these trains don't go that fast!, the train ride was fun, masters 2 and 4 had a ball, then a man in an orange vest came past, commented on the cool little camera, then asked if it was secure, "its fine" i said, and he continued on his way (you can see him in the long video), i turned back to the camera, and it was gone.
we live local to this line, and had just gone past our local stop, in fact , the camera fell off about as close as the line runs to our house. we made a note of the spot, and then i spent a worried 10 mins finishing the journey, then 15 mins getting back to the spot with the car, then another 20 mins in the rain searching for the gopro. but i found it, still recording, face down in the ballast rocks.
they really are a tough little toy
this is the short video of the camera falling off the train
and a longer 3 min version of some of the pre vision before the fall
always clean the glass
before you suction the camera onto the window
