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Itty Bitty Vacations
Train trips from your desktop
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Sometimes it would be nice to be able to take a short trip during a break at work. This new subscription-supported service might be just what I need.

Subscribers would be able to go to a web site and see thumbnail views of streaming video coming from the front of trains traveling down scenic routes in real time. You could pick the one you want and switch to full screen mode, maybe taking a short trip through some snowy mountains when it's a particularly humid day where you're living, or letting your mind wander as you travel down the tracks watching the fall leaves for awhile. If you're feeling miserable and it's a pleasant day outside you could zoom in on a train traveling through a dreary, rainy day. And vice versa. Done well, you wouldn't even see the train behind you as you floated down the tracks.

To make the business a success there would have to be a lot of cameras to choose from (increasing the scenery options) so railroads that allowed the cameras on the front of their engines would get a share of the subscription dollars. If more variety was needed, the service could be expanded to include cameras on subway trains and commercial planes. The view from a plane might be especially refreshing - it would look like you're floating through the clouds.

There are a lot of train ideas on this site so I might have missed this one. Just let me know if I have and I'll delete this.


longshot9999, Dec 21 2004



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       Nice, except... subways?

tiromancer, Dec 21 2004
  

       tiromancer - I threw the subways in there just because it might be interesting to see what was waiting each time the train came out of a dark tunnel.

longshot9999, Dec 21 2004
  

       This is great! I work in Belfast city centre. I would love a helicopter service which worked a shuttle service to the North Antrim Coast (Giants Causeway etc.) which would only be 15 mins in a wellychopper. Lunch by the sea, sambos and a bottle of beer, wellychopper back to work. Sooooooperb. bake me, bake me.

etherman, Dec 21 2004
  

       LOOK OUT FOR THAT COW ! (+)   


 
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