I am working on a Flat Car that will become part of an MOW 'consist' (is that the right term?).  I am Taking inspiration from CP Rail flat car #301578, more specifically from three photos taken by MRH contributor Jurgen Kleylein and posted on the Canadian Freight Car Gallery.

Equipment is a Nikon D5100 and a very old Sanyo Exacti (for the 'in cab' shots) with Sony Movie studio 13 to process .

There’s no attempt at a story here, just a montage of photos and video clips to ‘cut my teeth’ and get some idea of how things work.

I'm about to dip a toe into the world of model railroad video making and would appreciate any recommendations for a straightforward free video editor program.

I downloaded Lightworks on to my laptop for a 'look see', but when returning a couple of weeks later to install on my main machine for a first serious go, I hit multiple issues.
I ended up drowning in a sea of problems; license reactivation, password error, email confusion, token error confusion, machine license confusion and to be honest, rapidly lost the will to live.

I wonder if anyone will be posting to this thread on Dec 25th
Special Christmas presents perhaps....?

Go for it folks and to start it off:

Below a scene that would look better with some Christmas snow.

and 'Skunk' Reeve sporting a fashionable red fireman's shirt....