Where would you like to see a RailCam?

[mccauley]

There are several good Railcams on the web, so for your perusal, where else would you like to see a RailCam?

No complaints about having more cams on busy mainlines or intersections similar to the ones we have now at Rochelle, Tehachapi, Dunsmuir. Other good locations?

Would like to see some railyard cams. North Platte, perhaps? Then again, considering how much area you could reasonably cover from one cam and how small a fraction of North Platte that would cover, you could do just as well at any number of other railyards.

Any my fave idea, though it would be hard to pull off for now: a WebCam in a locomtive feeding us the forward view from the cab as the miles and other passing trains go by. Would require the involvement/cooperation of the railroad involved, and I'm not sure about their level of interest in accomodating railfans. But if they were to start giving their engineers mobile Internet terminals in the locos, especially if they have high-bandwidth, it would only be a small step from there to add a webcam feed.

[Anonymous]

My choice for a Railcam: Penn Coach Yard at 30th St. Station, Philadelphia. Mount the camera somewhere on the auto parking deck that directly overlooks the yard North of the station. Watch the great fleet of trains on the Northeast Corridor as they enter and exit this magnificent station. Also trains headed West to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Locomotive service facilities can be seen. Often unique and/or historic trainsets visit the yard.

[Anonymous]

Rob has a good suggestion for 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I"d also thing someplace else along the NEC - Amtrak, NJTransith and Path trains would be east of Newark's Penn Station.

[Anonymous]

I'd like to see two places:

Dolton Junction, Dolton, Ill

Plymouth Diamond, Plymouth, MI

[Anonymous]

Other considerations for camera locations are the availability of high-speed Internet access to the camera's computer, a safe place for the computer, and a good ISP to maintain the system's site and technology.

Bandwidth is the most important and expensive factor. Bandwidth determines how fast you can stream and how many folks can watch the image at any time.

[Anonymous]

I LIVE IN SO SEATTLE,BUT ILL GO WITH WHAT "ROB"PUTS DOWN AS A LOCATION,SOMETHING WHERE WE CAN VIEW TRAINS EVERY FEW MIN'S.===HUB

[edahrenhoerster]

How many cameras do you have? I can think of a bunch of good spots in addition to those already named:
Horseshoe Curve or the pedestrian bridge over NS in downtown Altoona, PA
Grand Crossing (BNSF, CP and occasional UP) in La Crosse, WI (BNSF already has a security camera pointed at it. Is it possible to tap in to it?)
Duplainville Crossing (CP & WC)near Waukesha, WI--in Kalmbach's back yard--would they sponsor?
State Line Tower at southeast corner of Chicago
UP swing bridge in Clinton, IA
Huey Long bridge in New Orleans
Bellvue, OH
A lot of these would be technically difficult and some would have security problems but I've been lucky enough to do some train watching at each and you really couldn't go wrong with any of them from that point of view.

[Mickhall]

I'd like to see one at the Revelstoke Railway Museum in Revelstoke BC right beside CP's mainline Laggan Sub.

[mccauley]

I spoke too soon. It turns out there is a cab-view railcam in Switzerland. The URL is http://home.rol3.com/myswitzerland/Livebild.jpg
It only updates about once every 15 minutes, and it shuts down for the night at about 6pm Switzerland time, which is early in the day this side of the pond. Still, it's a start...

[Anonymous]

How about CP LaGrange in Illinois, that Accomidates the BN and IHB (Indiana Harbor Belt) BN, CN, Conrail (now CSX/ NS) CP, UP, WC, Metra and Amtrak would all be seen. There are poles all over the area there to out up a camera.

[Anonymous]

On the BNSF dual track mains in Amarillo, Texas. This is the line Trains magazine recently ranked as the fastest freight line in the world.

[Anonymous]

How about someplace along the Marysville Sub?? Anywhere between Topeka,KS & Gibbon,NB.
Lotsa trains, AT LEAST 60 OR MORE A DAY!!!!!!!!!!
Mostly coal @ intermodal but hey!!, LOT'S @ LOT'S OF BIG POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
Matt

[PaulWWoodring]

Somewhere in the vicinity of Relay, MD (Thomas Viaduct) on CSX's former B&O Old Main Line and Capitol subs. The ideal place would be overlooking the viaduct, but the view from the South, with the Sun, really has no place to put a camera, the Harbor Tunnel Thruway cuts across the railroad just past the viaduct. There are several houses close to the tracks in the S-curves leading to the split at the viaduct from St. Denis that might be candidates if one could pursuade a homeowner that it wouldn't be any trouble.

For pure fantasy, it would be great to have a camera along one of the few remaining steam lines in Northern China before all the mainline steam is gone.

[Anonymous]

How about LA Union Station? The cams are already up, just need to convince Metrolink to put them up on the web. Currently it's a closed circuit system for dispatcher use.

[Anonymous]

WEBCAM YES,RAILCAM MAYBE, THE OTHER ONE I HAVE SEEN(ANOTHER WEB SITE ) DOESNT SHOW MOVEMENT,LIKE THE WEBCAM DOES,UNLESS THERE IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF RAILCAM I HAVENT SEEN,MAYBE >>>>> HUB

[Anonymous]

Either Toronto, Ontario Canada or Calgary, Alberta in Canada to get max coverage of CP/CN/VIA. It seems there is so little coverage of the Canadian roads, this would be great.

[dt8089]

How about Joliet IL. They have several security cameras installed. Could we tap into them?

[Anonymous]

In the Dallas/Ft. Worth area - there are some good yards in Ft. Worth, and at Tower 55 in dallas

[Anonymous]

Chillicothe, IL on the crossing of the BNSF and the Iowa Interstate. Trains every half hour, two lines, and a sight of the bridge, perhaps?

[Anonymous]

Somewhere on the TGV-Nord line in France, between Gonesse and Lille. There are high-speed passenger trains every few minutes, and a variety of types, but you'd need a fast simulated shutter speed.

Somewhere on the NEC would be nice too, or on one of the busier Metra/Amtrak lines around Chicago.

[billso]

No question - King Street Station, Seattle.

50+ trains per day including BNSF freight, Sounder transit, Amtrak Cascades talgo, Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, and coachyard switching.

Point it south and you'll also "railfan" Safeco Field's roof opening and closing, using locomotive traction motors, flanged wheels, and rails.

[dstill]

Hamlet, NC

[Anonymous]

save ME some gas, please??

Houston is my choice:

Belt Junction on the north end, tons of UP and BNSF action. busy and slow moving at that usually.

North end of Lloyd Yard in Spring, Tx at Spring Junction. switching and run thrus both. example: http://www.railroad.net/forums/photo/msg0511035321936.jpg

Rosenberg, Tx at Tower 17. BNSF crosses UP main just east of Houston. Busy, busy.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know that they had a webcam at Tehachapi. How do I get a look at it?

[mccauley]

The URL is http://www.trainorders.com/cameras/tehachapi/

[Anonymous]

Galesburg, Illinois either in the yard or on a post at the city park where railfans can drive in the grass off of Lincoln street. There the ex Santa Fe main passes underneath two busy ex BN mains (75 to 100 trains maybe in 24 hours).
Sidney, Illinois in the empty farm service grass lot on the east side of the small village. The UP Chicago, Fort Worth, St. Louis main line goes under the busy Fort Wayne, Decatur, St. Louis, Kansas City NS line. Plus there is a semi recent conection put in between the two mains here.
Tolono would be a good spot.

[Anonymous]

Hi:
Joe,
you need to putt a rail cam in Peru,IN. The busy Norfolk Southern Detroit Kansas City main goes right through there. the line sees allmost up
to 40 trains aday. There is a 3 track yard there where they keep locals. And you can see Foreign
power on the main on just about every train. from IC,UP,SP,MRL,KCS,CP,CN,BN,BNSF,HLCX,MPI,FURX,CSX,
RMGX and more. There is a big lot where the old N&W yard use to be wich would be a good place for a cam,and there is tons of light poles around the yard where you could place the cam. Every west bound train has to stop for a crew change at peru,IN every day, and a couple east bounds. wich makes that even better so you could view the train for a couple miniuets.
I would love to see a rail cam there. Tell me
what you think. If you want to see pictures of the yard and the line in peru,IN just visit my web site at,
http://hoosierrailfan.homestead.com/junction.html
Thanks,
robbie

[Anonymous]

Galesburg, Il

AMTRAK (Southwest Chief, Zephyr), and lots of freight!

- George

[Anonymous]

For those who love commuter trains and Amtrak I'd suggest the Sunnyside Yards in Long Island City, N.Y.
There are countless Long Island RR cars, Amtrak, and New Jersey Transit trains moving around all day long. There are lots of MOW equipment and an old switcher here or there moving around, almost all day long.
There are freight trains also run by the New York and Atlantic.

[favuprailroadfan]

GIBBON JCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!