No sooner has the line been re-opened than they put up the fares (shades of
the British railway companies)
I have finally got the video of the film which John Huntley shot in Majorca in the
winter of 1955/6. The film, because of expense, has not yet been professionally
digitally mastered or edited and is a straight transfer, warts and all from the
original 16mm B/W cine film. If we could get enough people together to cover the
production costs (£300 for 30 copies of a professionally mastered video) this
would be terrific so e-mail me if you would be
interested in having such a copy. I have transferred the whole film (approx 8
minutes including Soller Railway) to my own computer where, as a compressed mpg
file, it takes up 79 megabytes, the original avi file takes 177 Mb !!! It is
only short but includes good footage of several steam locos at Palma, including
LLoseta (Nasmyth Wilson 4-6-0T of 1887) and Arta (Nasmyth Wilson 4-4-0T of 1877
or 1881). To whet your appetites I have made a very short 750Kb clip which you
can download here but
you will need the DivX ;-) MPEG4 Hi-Res Video Codec before you can view it on
your own computers. Google for it and provided you follow the fairly
simple instructions it will install on your computer causing no trouble, not
using any bad behaviour or language but will act in the background to enable the
playing of these files in conjunction with your Windows media player. Probably
the best solution would be for you to create a new folder somwhere, call it
codecs and unzip the file into that folder, then run the file
Now, here's a captured
frame from the original video to whet your apetites.
Hopefully I shall have more news and
pictures for you before the end of the month.
Brief descriptions of
the contents of previous newsletters
Mike
Kaben's Report
Books on Majorcan
Railways
I have produced Galleries of Pictures of the Sóller Railway and the
Sóller Tramway and these will appear as soon as we can complete the transfer of
this website to another host with more space for all our pictures. Meanwhile an
archive of my own Sóller Railway photos can be found here
