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History of Trinity Court Studios
Summary:

Trinity Court Studios is a semi-popular YouTube account that specializes and primarily focuses on videos and photography of trains in the Northeastern United States. Primarily in New England, Trinity Court Studios often examines and films trains located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

About:

The Trinity Court YouTube account (Full name: Trinity Court Studios) was created on November 6th, 2006, and the first video was uploaded 20 days later, on November 26th. The first video is called: A Tale of Two Downeasters and it only has 500 views as of March 25th, 2013. As of 2015, the video still has less than 1,000 hits. Although other Trinity Court videos have gained larger audiences over Nine years, this happens to be one of the least viewed videos in Trinity Court Studios' history. Camera Equipment and Popular Videos:
 * The YouTube account is regularly overseen, operated and maintained by Mike Rogers. It is relatively known what his general name is typically at the end of a Trinity Court video description, which often says: "Enjoy!! -Mike".
 * Born from a split in a similar production house, Trinity Court Studios was created in 2003. Before 2003, all videos Mike made were overseen by his father in the original entity: Trinity Court Productions.
 * The two sound like parallel names which both represent and film trains, Trinity Court Productions focused on non-train related videos, such as family events, local town festivals, school trips, and editing of movies through Avid, which was a giant Hollywood Video editing powerhouse in the 1990's.
 * A surprisingly popular video that Trinity Court Studios uploaded was a video showing a Guilford/Pan Am Railways Westbound freight train in North Andover, Massachusetts. The video currently has over 24,000 views, likely because of the lead locomotives unusual horn, a perfectly tuned Leslie RS5T on GP40 #307.

Originally before 2011, Trinity Court Studios relied on significantly older camera equipment which was bulky and did not provide decent video quality. As a result, viewership and popularity was relatively low. Occasionally one or two videos filmed on the old camera became surprisingly popular, garnering over 15,000 to over 25,000 views in some cases.

Cameras:

The first camera used by Trinity Court Studios was a Sony Mini-DV camera, which operated well for the beginning years of the channel. But by 2008, the video camera was dying, and soon was retired from use. A secondary camera came into being, a Sony Hi-8 camera with large tapes being used filled in the primary camera spot until 2011 when the HD Camera conversion took place.

Prime examples of surprisingly popular videos Trinity Court Studios shot before the 2011 HD Camera conversion are shown in these YouTube Links:

Guilford Rail System/Pan Am Railways Westbound Freight on 3-29-08. This video became popular likely because of the train horn on the lead locomotive. Pan Am GP40 #307 has a perfectly tuned Leslie RS5T which was heard several times in the old video. This was one of the last times that the old Sony Mini-DV camera was used. Trinity Court Studios has since remade the video with improved audio and video quality. That video can be watched here:

Another old yet popular video was the "Reverse Amtrak Acela Cabride" series: Part One: and Part two also had a significantly large audience despite the bad quality of the old replacement camera. Commenters did point out the "Camera's potato-like" quality.

Over time, Trinity Court Studios gained more subscribers and managed to get newer camera equipment that significantly improved the Channel's video quality, and gradually elevated the channel's stature to a more refined and semi-professional format.HD Cameras:

The HD camera that Trinity Court relies on is a Canon Vixia HFM41, which is also used by several other railfans across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Trinity Court Studios first video that was filmed with the HD camera was uploaded on June 26th, 2011 and it too became a light success. The Canon HD camera was used on occasion, but the older camera and a small digital Canon Powershot provided other Trinity Court YouTube videos after June 26th. The Canon Vixia HFL41 HD camera has since become the main camera used for Trinity Court Studios.

The last non-HD video Trinity Court Studios uploaded was on July 22nd, 2012 just over a year since the first HD video was uploaded onto the channel. A fact recently released by Trinity Court Studios shows that they have not uploaded a single non-HD video since July 22nd, 2012.

Traveling to Film on Location:

The purchase of a car enabled the channel to travel to several other locations originally inaccessible. Mike Rogers of Trinity Court Studios pointed out that he "Often carpools with several other railfans in an effort to save fuel, money, and lower the impact on the environment."

Mike also explained that: "Traveling in as few cars as possible also reduces the possibility of losing fellow railfans when traveling through rural or highly populated locations they are not well oriented with."

Locations Trinity Court Studios has gone to over the years from 2009 to present day include the Northeast Corridor, Pan Am Railways Districts One, Two, and Three, CSX's Boston and Albany line, and Pan Am Railways' Conn River Line.