Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

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ToledoRailfan wrote:

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ToledoRailfan wrote:

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ToledoRailfan wrote:

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ToledoRailfan wrote:I remember around three-four years ago, he use to be friends with this guy known as Dragonmaster (I don't know how I remember his username) but something happened between the two and Allen made this one video about him. I don't really remember much of what he said about Dragonmaster but what I do remember is that Allan said something along the lines of Dragonmaster trying to set his house on fire and he tried to steal some railroad stuff from him. He later deleted the video, I remember that many comments were advising Alan to take the video down, this was before he had a huge wave of foamer fans ('railfanners') subscribe to him.

Yea, I don't think it helps that he's pretty much surrounded by a bunch of "yes-men",

"yes-men"?! More like "yes-boys"!

Either way though, it's quite clear that being surrounded by a bunch of people who constantly agree with him hasn't helped his quality any.

I know, I was just joking. A few years ago when he had a smaller fanboy base, when someone would give him advice on something, one of his fanboys would get all pissy with that person.

Probably wouldn't be much different today. I remember seeing on a Facebook post of his when he was trying to defend his vandalism of a railroad car that several people in the comments of the post were saying he didn't do anything wrong.

Also, I'm not the biggest fan of when he does dual-camera videos, as he usually just either puts them side-by-side and makes them hard to see what's happening in them, or edits them so that it's camera 1 for a few seconds followed by camera 2 for the few seconds that camera 1 just showed.

Same here. I can't stand either one of those. I think he quit doing separate clips for both cameras a while ago while the dual camera side-by-side is new. Both are hard to watch.

It'd honestly be better if he did something like this, with the footage from camera #2 being after the footage from camera #1:


That way, those who wanted to could skip the extra second part and but it'd still allow for both camera angles to be shown.

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:I remember around three-four years ago, he use to be friends with this guy known as Dragonmaster (I don't know how I remember his username) but something happened between the two and Allen made this one video about him. I don't really remember much of what he said about Dragonmaster but what I do remember is that Allan said something along the lines of Dragonmaster trying to set his house on fire and he tried to steal some railroad stuff from him. He later deleted the video, I remember that many comments were advising Alan to take the video down, this was before he had a huge wave of foamer fans ('railfanners') subscribe to him.

Yea, I don't think it helps that he's pretty much surrounded by a bunch of "yes-men",

"yes-men"?! More like "yes-boys"!

Either way though, it's quite clear that being surrounded by a bunch of people who constantly agree with him hasn't helped his quality any.

I know, I was just joking. A few years ago when he had a smaller fanboy base, when someone would give him advice on something, one of his fanboys would get all pissy with that person.

Probably wouldn't be much different today. I remember seeing on a Facebook post of his when he was trying to defend his vandalism of a railroad car that several people in the comments of the post were saying he didn't do anything wrong.

Also, I'm not the biggest fan of when he does dual-camera videos, as he usually just either puts them side-by-side and makes them hard to see what's happening in them, or edits them so that it's camera 1 for a few seconds followed by camera 2 for the few seconds that camera 1 just showed.

Same here. I can't stand either one of those. I think he quit doing separate clips for both cameras a while ago while the dual camera side-by-side is new. Both are hard to watch.

It'd honestly be better if he did something like this, with the footage from camera #2 being after the footage from camera #1:


That way, those who wanted to could skip the extra second part and but it'd still allow for both camera angles to be shown.

That would be kind of weird but I'd work, it'd be watchable.

Although what he should do is switch between the two but not switch to the second camera with the start of the clip being filmed before the end of the previous clip. It'd really only work with with longer freight trains and not shorter passenger trains.

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:I remember around three-four years ago, he use to be friends with this guy known as Dragonmaster (I don't know how I remember his username) but something happened between the two and Allen made this one video about him. I don't really remember much of what he said about Dragonmaster but what I do remember is that Allan said something along the lines of Dragonmaster trying to set his house on fire and he tried to steal some railroad stuff from him. He later deleted the video, I remember that many comments were advising Alan to take the video down, this was before he had a huge wave of foamer fans ('railfanners') subscribe to him.

Yea, I don't think it helps that he's pretty much surrounded by a bunch of "yes-men",

"yes-men"?! More like "yes-boys"!

Either way though, it's quite clear that being surrounded by a bunch of people who constantly agree with him hasn't helped his quality any.

I know, I was just joking. A few years ago when he had a smaller fanboy base, when someone would give him advice on something, one of his fanboys would get all pissy with that person.

Probably wouldn't be much different today. I remember seeing on a Facebook post of his when he was trying to defend his vandalism of a railroad car that several people in the comments of the post were saying he didn't do anything wrong.

Also, I'm not the biggest fan of when he does dual-camera videos, as he usually just either puts them side-by-side and makes them hard to see what's happening in them, or edits them so that it's camera 1 for a few seconds followed by camera 2 for the few seconds that camera 1 just showed.

Same here. I can't stand either one of those. I think he quit doing separate clips for both cameras a while ago while the dual camera side-by-side is new. Both are hard to watch.

It'd honestly be better if he did something like this, with the footage from camera #2 being after the footage from camera #1:


That way, those who wanted to could skip the extra second part and but it'd still allow for both camera angles to be shown.

That would be kind of weird but I'd work, it'd be watchable.

Although what he should do is switch between the two but not switch to the second camera with the start of the clip being filmed before the end of the previous clip. It'd really only work with with longer freight trains and not shorter passenger trains.

That'd also work better as well, but I don't think that he'd like that advice...

Brian556 wrote:I had no idea this guy had a history of antics. Maybe it was intentional, as dumb as that would be.
Regardless of that, I think this situation could very easily happen to other drivers.
I had no idea about the messed-up crossbuck at Lakeshore Dr. Wish I'd known about it when I was in that area a few years ago
Also, yall forgot to mention the switch in the middle of the roundabout:https://www.google.com/maps/@28.802122, ... a=!3m1!1e3
And, up the road in Eustis, the tracks run right in front of several houses:https://www.google.com/maps/@28.863935, ... 328!8i1664

freebrickproductions wrote:

Brian556 wrote:I had no idea this guy had a history of antics. Maybe it was intentional, as dumb as that would be.
Regardless of that, I think this situation could very easily happen to other drivers.
I had no idea about the messed-up crossbuck at Lakeshore Dr. Wish I'd known about it when I was in that area a few years ago
Also, yall forgot to mention the switch in the middle of the roundabout:https://www.google.com/maps/@28.802122, ... a=!3m1!1e3
And, up the road in Eustis, the tracks run right in front of several houses:https://www.google.com/maps/@28.863935, ... 328!8i1664

The last one isn't too much of an issue, as the homeowners just need to look both ways before crossing.