Annnouncing the OGR YouTube Channel

Guys and Gals!!!  Take a look!

Thank you Alan, I watch and use YouTube everyday. Absolutely I'll subscribe and enjoy. ...just subscribed!

John

I have subscribed and wish you the best with your new project.

Art

Interesting.  Can’t wait to check it out

Great!

Peter

Thank you.

That's GREAT news !

John

Subscribed - thank you!!

Love to hear the interview with Jack! I couldn't walk away.

Thanks Alan, already subscribed! Best of Luck with this new Venture, Rick

Brilliant idea!

Cool. Bookmarked on my favorites bar.

Bob

I’m in thank you!

Thank you Rich.

Subscribed.

Jerry

Awesome.

Looks good, Alan and Rich!!!

Be sure to "Subscribe" and "Like" the videos you watch. It will really make a difference in helping the channel grow.

Jim

Done and do all OGR produced videos get shared?

@dk122trains posted:

Done and do all OGR produced videos get shared?

Thanks...and no, all OGR videos will not be shared or at least not in their entirety.

thanks guys!  I've never subscribed to a YouTube channel so I was glad that you provided a direct link to it.  Always thinking !

walt

Thanks to those of you that have been kind enough to subscribe!  Come on guys and gals, it is FREE to subscribe and to like each video!  We need you to make this a success!

Look forward to the material you will be sharing and have subscribed.  Hope you can generate some interest and some income ultimately.  I gather most advertising is now migrating to social media, so this seems a sound approach.

Just subscribed, it is good to have O scale on you tube.

Thanks for providing this!  Just subscribed and watched/liked my first video.  Looks like this will be another valuable resource for us all.

I subscribed a long, long time ago.

I enjoyed watching a few videos last night in my normal line up of YouTube channels I frequent.  I especially enjoyed watching Jim Barrett in action...

I spend my time on the OGR Forum and rarely on YouTube. I will check out the new OGR Channel but hope that this doesn't eventually result in the demise of the OGR Forum.

MELGAR

Dear Allen,

I've subscribed and what took you guys sooooo long to get your own channel?

Great idea - wishing everyone involved much success.

@Allegheny posted:

Dear Allen,

I've subscribed and what took you guys sooooo long to get your own channel?

Great idea - wishing everyone involved much success.

Kazar...we have had a YouTube channel for years but actually did very little with it because we were so involved with growing the forum.  We are now focusing on YouTube and Facebook with the plan on linking all three with each other.  Lots of changes coming soon!

@MELGAR posted:

I spend my time on the OGR Forum and rarely on YouTube. I will check out the new OGR Channel but hope that this doesn't eventually result in the demise of the OGR Forum.

MELGAR

Not to worry my friend!  The forum is MUCH larger than most YT channels.  Millions of page views and hundreds of thousands of posts per month.  Regardless, we can no longer ignore YouTube and need to integrate all of our social media.  We need folks to do as they have done here....subscribe!  We will be offering content on YouTube that is appropriate there and most will not want to miss this opportunity to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get that content.

@Allegheny posted:

...what took you guys sooooo long to get your own channel?

That's actually my fault.

I established the OGR YouTube Channel many years ago, back when I was CEO and Publisher, but I never did anything with it. Alan recently decided it was an "under-utilized asset" (a little "business lingo" there... ) and threatened to fire me unless I put some videos there. (Just kidding!)

I have the entire library of OGR videos here on my MAC and backed up off-site, so the library is intact. They were all digitized from the original video tapes years ago. I spent about a week organizing them and gathering them all on to a single Western Digital 6TB hard drive. I surprised myself when I discovered that I had produced well over 150 videos for OGR over the years!

I've been busy in Final Cut Pro X converting the old standard definition videos to "pseudo-HD", adding new opens and a quick little high-tech close, and doing some judicious editing on some of the sequences that contained old or outdated information.

It has been a mixed bag of experiences putting these videos together for YouTube. On the good side, many of them were wonderful trips down memory lane. They brought to mind pleasant experiences shooting and editing layouts all over the country, and meeting many wonderful people in the process. However, I found it a little tough to edit the Backshop sequences. Watching OGR Backshop Foreman Jim Barrett on screen, presenting his projects in his inimitable and enthusiastic way served to remind me that he's gone. Jim was a dear friend and I still miss him a lot.

We'll be adding more videos to the channel every week. Please go there, subscribe, like each video you watch, and click the little bell to get the alerts and enjoy the videos.

Really looking forward to another good O scale YouTube channel!

Thanks Alan and Rich. This is long overdue and, even though I've seen many of these vids before, I have subscribed and liked them to help with your viewer analytics.                Rich, I really appreciate your enormous effort to update these and have them available for the YT universe to watch. And nice job Alan to see the potential that YouTube has for the growth of the OGR family!

TJ

You should consider a partnership with people here on OGR who have professional channels.  Mainly those folks who just had a successful Social Media outing at York. 

It would ensure a diverse mix of ideas and video formats to help hold interest and have something for everyone.  Could be a Win Win Win for them, you and us content consumers. 

Ron

I apologize for not getting time sooner to comment. Work and home life have been busy as heck trying to catch up from York. I'll take a look after dinner tonight and get involved as much as I can. After all, I love trains, and love seeing them on YouTube.

@Ron045 posted:

You should consider a partnership with people here on OGR who have professional channels.  Mainly those folks who just had a successful Social Media outing at York.

It would ensure a diverse mix of ideas and video formats to help hold interest and have something for everyone.  Could be a Win Win Win for them, you and us content consumers.

Ron

Well Ron, I in fact did just that months ago however none of those folks I contacted followed up even after I offered to help cross promote.  Not sure how fair it is for folks to basically promote their YT channels here using the forum to help them grow without at least considering what I proposed...but, we will deal with that in the near future.  Keep in mind that Eric partners with us with his own contribution to the magazine.  By the way,  not sure what you mean by "professional channels".  Personally, I think the content we have is pretty professional.  Anyway, right now we ask the membership and readers to visit our channel and like the videos ... and subscribe!!

This is great news!  Any plans in the works for new content yet?

I know the days of layout tour videos are over, but after re-watching the Jack "Hot Water" Wheelihan interview, it made me wish there were more long-form interviews/conversations like this available.  There are a long list of people that would make interesting subjects for interviews like this, both in modern 1:1 steam programs and in the O gauge trains world (Doyle McCormack, Steve Lee, Mike Wolf, and Mike Reagan are just some that come to mind...).  Just a suggestion...   And short videos highlighting some of the modern steam programs themselves (like FWRHS, EBT, Reading & Northern, Cass Scenic RR, to name a few), would also make for good cross-promotional opportunities for both OGR and the programs themselves across multiple social media platforms.

Andy

@Andy Hummell posted:

This is great news!  Any plans in the works for new content yet?

I know the days of layout tour videos are over, but after re-watching the Jack "Hot Water" Wheelihan interview, it made me wish there were more long-form interviews/conversations like this available.  There are a long list of people that would make interesting subjects for interviews like this, both in modern 1:1 steam programs and in the O gauge trains world (Doyle McCormack, Steve Lee, Mike Wolf, and Mike Reagan are just some that come to mind...).  Just a suggestion...   And short videos highlighting some of the modern steam programs themselves (like FWRHS, EBT, Reading & Northern, Cass Scenic RR, to name a few), would also make for good cross-promotional opportunities for both OGR and the programs themselves across multiple social media platforms.

Andy

Andy....we have around 150 in house videos that will be posted on our YT channel over the next year as well as highlighting photo and video content from the forum.  Interviewing the vast number of folks you suggest would be great.  We just have to figure out how to get to them and to do so economically.

@Rich Melvin posted:

That's actually my fault.

I established the OGR YouTube Channel many years ago, back when I was CEO and Publisher, but I never did anything with it. Alan recently decided it was an "under-utilized asset" (a little "business lingo" there... ) and threatened to fire me unless I put some videos there. (Just kidding!)

I have the entire library of OGR videos here on my MAC and backed up off-site, so the library is intact. They were all digitized from the original video tapes years ago. I spent about a week organizing them and gathering them all on to a single Western Digital 6TB hard drive. I surprised myself when I discovered that I had produced well over 150 videos for OGR over the years!

I've been busy in Final Cut Pro X converting the old standard definition videos to "pseudo-HD", adding new opens and a quick little high-tech close, and doing some judicious editing on some of the sequences that contained old or outdated information.

It has been a mixed bag of experiences putting these videos together for YouTube. On the good side, many of them were wonderful trips down memory lane. They brought to mind pleasant experiences shooting and editing layouts all over the country, and meeting many wonderful people in the process. However, I found it a little tough to edit the Backshop sequences. Watching OGR Backshop Foreman Jim Barrett on screen, presenting his projects in his inimitable and enthusiastic way served to remind me that he's gone. Jim was a dear friend and I still miss him a lot.

We'll be adding more videos to the channel every week. Please go there, subscribe, like each video you watch, and click the little bell to get the alerts and enjoy the videos.

put some of those video clips of you at the throttle or you describing your experiences. I ask this, in case you don't wish to self promote!

@OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:

By the way,  not sure what you mean by "professional channels".  Personally, I think the content we have is pretty professional.  Anyway, right now we ask the membership and readers to visit our channel and like the videos ... and subscribe!!

Was not a negative comment toward OGR or RM.  What I meant was OGR should team with people who do this professionally vs people like myself... an amateur who is just having fun.

@Engineer-Joe posted:

put some of those video clips of you at the throttle or you describing your experiences. I ask this, in case you don't wish to self promote!

There's a cab ride video coming up soon with me at the throttle of the 765 on the C&O in the New River Gorge. There will be a few other steam-related videos published, too.

Thanks to those of you that have gone to our YouTube channel and subscribed!  And to those of you that have not done so yet, PLEASE take the time to help us by visiting https://www.youtube.com/@OGRYouTube and subscribing.  It is FREE!!  Don't forget to click on the like button when you view a video and the bell button to be notified when new content is posted.