"Loco Lee" joins the team!

Hi Folks:

More exciting news today as Lee Wheelbarger "Loco Lee" joins the ET Team! Lee Wheelbarger is taking charge of the train that was donated by Bachmann Trains, and is really going to do it up. He is adding a QSI Imulator that will make the train chug, smoke in sink with the chugging, have a fire box glow under the train that sinks with the chugging and putting in a lighting system that will flicker like the real oil lamps of the day. He has also recruited a friend Jim Manzone, to paint and weather the engines and cars so they look as real as real can be on camera.

When real railroad presidents want models  of their locomotives done, "Loco Lee" is the guy they call. He also has over 500 model locomotives in this personal collection.

Lee is so good and so famous for his work making model trains look real that he is doing the model G-Scale trains that will run under the National Christma Tree in Washington D.C. this Christmas season.  We are extremely lucky to have "Loco Lee" and Jim Manzone working on this project.

Len Brown
Director / Producer

Update on our progress

Hi Everyone!
Sorry it has been a while since I have blogged Its been busy, so this will be a long blog.

A lot has happened over the past few weeks with our production that I would like to share, starting with a new film location. David Simmons, our team member and adviser with the Ohio Historical Society, helped us find a film location for the making of the iron I-beams. I was not sure how we would be able to film this important part of the story until David figured it out and introduced me to Bill Willoughby, COO of Cleveland Track Material, Inc. They run a real 19th century rolling mill complete with all the 19th century equipment. Big men, with big tongs, handling hot iron out of the rolling mill.  Just like they did in the 19th century! I plan on doing a scout with David Simmons in Sept. during a time they are running the mill.

The next big thing is I got a call the beginning of this week from Jeremy James, a radio show host with Star 97.1 Ashtabula. He said they would like to help us anyway they can and would like to interview Patti and I about the project in the near future and put a link to the Engineering Tragedy website on the radio station's website. So we will be setting up something soon on that.

Now to today! We have a new team member joining us by the name of Roger Peterson. Roger is an industrial fire chief with 21 years of service to the Bloomfield Fire Department where he is the Asst. Chief and a paramedic. He is also president of the North Bloomfield Historical Society as well as a Township Trustee in his 7th year of public service.  Roger loves railroads, model trains and history so this story is right up his alley. He will be working with us on fire history, fundraising, and the construction of some of our outdoor sets for the model bridge at his property. You can find his picture with his wife Heather on the website in the team area here: http://www.engineeringtragedy.com/The_Team.html

Stay tuned there is more to come!

Len Brown

We Are Working Away

Hi Everyone:

We are working away on Engineering Tragedy. I have been on Fiverr.com promoting our website and fundraising campaign and we now have over 7,739 followers on Twitter and we keep getting more hits to the website each day.
Make sure you tell all your friends about the show and keep the hype going.
Since the script is done, I've been spending time reformatting it so Debbie can break it down. Then we figure out how many shooting days we have, how many props we will need and locations we still need to scout. We still have a lot of work to do and I guess you eat an elephant one bite at a time.
Thanks to all our supporters!
Len