Something big happening at the diamonds today? Lots of MoW gathered on the north side!
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Saw 'em there yesterday, too. If business is down, this would be a good chance to get some work done.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
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CShaveRRSaw 'em there yesterday, too. If business is down, this would be a good chance to get some work done.
Traditional railroad scenario - business down, furlough everybody, especially those that maintain tracks all they do is spend money on materials - ties, rail, spkes, tie plates etc. etc etc.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Anyone else having problems accessing the webcam lately? The past few days I've been getting the gray screen of disconnect, telling me either my bandwidth is insufficient (it's not) or the camera is down.
All i get is the spinning flower icon.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
I'm getting the same thing you're getting, Brian. It's been like this for a couple of days now.
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Brian SchmidtWe are looking into some problems with the webcam. At this time we don't know when it will be fully operational again. Thanks for your interest.
Investigate the squirrels in the neighborhood...they will chew up ANYTHING!
Brian Schmidt We are looking into some problems with the webcam. At this time we don't know when it will be fully operational again. Thanks for your interest.
Thank you for letting us know!
It must be wearing a facemask.
OhiocoalRR Not working for me today? Is upgrade complete? I have black screen with distances to Porviso etc, but no cam feeds nor past pictures available??
Not working for me today? Is upgrade complete? I have black screen with distances to Porviso etc, but no cam feeds nor past pictures available??
I wonder if maybe with the Covid-19 shutdowns, maybe someone turned off power to the area? Or someone needed to charge their smartaleckphone and found a convenient socket by unpluging the camera's power supply?
As of Wednesday afternoon the Rochelle webcam is back online. If you're having trouble viewing it, make sure the Adobe Flash Player is up to date on your computer and try Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for your web browser.
Thank you. I missed it.
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Need to set the focus to infinity and turn off auto-focus... passing trains confuses it.
Shes up and running
Tuned in just as the guy in the Kubata pulled up to the crapper and went in. That was it for me... I'll be back much later.
Thanks! "A bad train-watching is better than a good day at work"!! Oh, wait, I forgot that I retired on 2-28-20.
Rambo2Shes up and running
And continues to run for a extended period of time.
I've been monitoring the webcam for long periods this week, and, wow. Over 26.3 hours I logged 27 UP and 17 BNSF trains, 24 hour averages of only 24.6 for UP and 15.5 for BNSF. That's about half as many as ran here not long ago. Yikes.
Ed Kyle I've been monitoring the webcam for long periods this week, and, wow. Over 26.3 hours I logged 27 UP and 17 BNSF trains, 24 hour averages of only 24.6 for UP and 15.5 for BNSF. That's about half as many as ran here not long ago. Yikes.
There are those who keep a count at Deshler. Lately the daily count has struggled to get to 40, whereas before it was running up as high as sixty on a daily basis.
I think things are starting to pick up, however. Some trains that had been dropped are apparently starting to run again.
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It looks like UP is running less trains but longer trains.
Anyone catch the UP train that came thru earlier this week that had two cabooses? I was wondering if anyone had anyinfo on the cabooses. Where they were coming and where they were going.
Is this road project,a railroad project.Where the road there,is it rail property ,Seems like a long time to shut a road down.
Considering the street has multiple private driveways and it is labeled as 2nd Ave, I think it is a city street repaving project.
I think any proper street/road construction calls for a base to be put down and left to settle for a period of time, then the paving put over it so they don't have to come back and redo it next year. Thus that period of settling appears to be a "why is it taking so long" complaint to those that don't understand the need for a good foundation and it is cheaper to let the base settle than to run heavy machinery over and over it trying to compact it.
Some info here ...
https://rochellenews-leader.com/article/street-work-approved
Looks like they have exceeded the bounds of what was approved!
I was looking for more information on the construction and found this image of the police patch.
nice
alpinemike nice
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