I could not agree with you more, Peter. Yes, the next time I would like to see
what you mentioned.
Chuck
Charles J. Kehoe, ACSW, CCE
Chief Operating Officer
Kehoe Correctional Consulting, LLC
P.O. Box 1265
Midlothian, VA 23113
(804) 873-4949
Web site: www.charlesjkehoe.com<http://www.charlesjkehoe.com>
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Condro <pcondro@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [rc3r] Re: Lionel Caboose with Camera
Chuck.......when I cut myself shaving, Blue and Orange pour out......it makes
me sad that Lionel’s quality control has become somewhat suspect. Most
recently, it has been showcased by changing the colors of merchandise already
ordered. I can show you next time you are here.... competition is good for the
marketplace.......MTH certainly pushed them the right way.
Peter
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On Jun 17, 2020, at 5:43 PM, Charles Kehoe
<charlesjkehoe@xxxxxxx<mailto:charlesjkehoe@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
Being a LIONEL GUY, it is sad to hear that about Lionel quality. My Dad got me
the 623 Lionel Switch Engine for Christmas in 1954. Some of you have see me
running that on our layout at the GBGH. With routine maintenance it keeps in
going. All the parts are original.
I went to the Lionel factory when it was in Mt. Clemens, Michigan and saw them
testing locomotives. They had about 16 video cameras going and they would run
the locomotive until the wheels came off, literally. Then they would watch the
videos and when it got near the spot where the engine fell apart, they watched
every frame of the picture to determine when and where the problem started and
what finally caused the failure. I was very impressed.
I am not in the position to purchase any more Lionel things right now, so I
guess I will be an observer.
Chuck
Charles J. Kehoe, ACSW, CCE
Chief Operating Officer
Kehoe Correctional Consulting, LLC
P.O. Box 1265
Midlothian, VA 23113
(804) 873-4949
Web site:
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Subject: [rc3r] Re: Lionel Caboose with Camera
Excellent video.
Thank you for your hard work.
......par for the course with Lionel.....their quality control has really gone
down.....my biggest fear with MTH gone is that it will get even worse....
Peter
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On Jun 17, 2020, at 11:32 AM, Ken Young (Redacted sender kanawha72 for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The club purchased a Lionel CSX caboose equipped with a WiFi camera. If you
remember the club also has a Norfolk Southern modern observation car with a
camera. Tom asked me to take a look at the caboose and get it working.
One of the problems with these camera cars is the camera is inside the car and
looks through one of the cast clear windows. Being cheap plastic these windows
tend to fog and distort the picture. The solution other people have done was to
just remove the window so I tried to do that. However I wound up knocking the
camera off its mount in the process and had to take the whole caboose apart to
fix it. After struggling for a few hours to take it apart and reassemble it,
everything works.
Some observations:
* The app is terrible. There are a number of steps you have to follow which
aren't well explained or not explained in the instructions. There are functions
on the app that have been disabled but the icons for them are still there. It
was a lot of trial and error to figure out how to do things. We probably need a
"how to" set of instructions or a class before running it on the club layouts.
* It has to have a constant 18 volts on the track to work so it won't work
for conventional operation. The track has to be clean. Any short power
interruption will interrupt the picture and may cause the WiFi to crash. If
that happens you have to reset the camera and start over.
* There are several picture resolutions that can be chosen. The low and
medium resolutions are poor. The high resolution is OK, HD is great but the
frame rate is a lot slower on HD and winds up freezing the picture a lot.
I shot several videos of my home layout to see what worked and didn't work. I
tried emailing one of the videos but the file size is too large and failed to
go through so I posted it on YouTube. Click on this link: ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySovVe0URa4&feature=youtu.be<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DySovVe0URa4%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&data=02%7C01%7C%7C35a7203cbcfd42f2db9108d8131c276d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637280358923038711&sdata=iXtFdGbabg7c4xdnYst5Q4qDVmcDqant3QQeHZY7i%2Bo%3D&reserved=0>????
I used the high resolution setting and it looked fine on my phone. However,
when I emailed it to myself the aspect ratio of the picture changed so that the
picture is distorted vertically (drawn out). I don't have a video editor on my
computer to try to fix that.
Ken
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