TrainsMag.com Reader Poll – February 9, 2004

[s10]

I have enough trouble with AOL bumping me off at the worst possible times, I deffently do not need that from your site. You are providing a very good service just as it is. Please don't change it!

[Anonymous]

Leave the Rochelle camera as is, see if you can get some other interesting sites up with web-cameras!

[Anonymous]

I would like to see it in real-time, but that would take up too muck bandwith, so it is fine how it is.

[Anonymous]

it is just fine as it is...eliminate some of the new ads you have stuck up there...enlarge the picture size if possible

[rhettsease]

Leave as is, but a larger image and more cameras would be nice.

[Anonymous]

please keep it as it is
its perfect now why mess with it?

[Willy2]

The Rochelle webcam is great! Keep it as it is!

Willy

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by snielsen

Are there other webcams?

Yes-try Mendota,Illinois on BNSF Mendota Sub Mainline at Mendota'sAmtrak Stationat www.mendotamuseums.org

[Anonymous]

I would like faster views but would hate to cut someone's viewing time. Any way we could contribute $$ to allow fast speed and no change to viewers?
If push comes to shove, Keep it as is!

[cwillis408]

Keep it like it is, but adding scanner sound would be a better improvement. Thanks for having it anyways.

[Trainspotter]

Leave it like it is but for heaven's sakes increase the screen size. The image is dwarfed by all the adverts, etc. If you're going to make a webcam available, at least have an image you can see without a microscope.

[UPTRAIN]

Is that a rare occurence to be "bumped"? It has never happened to me.

[theoldhobo]

Leave the cam the way it is. I am fortunate in being able to visit Rochelle 4 - 6 times a year as I travel from my home in S.W. Indiana to my family in central Wisconsin. Talk about Real Time ! The cam is a welcome break and a reminder. Thanks, Trains.

[ltritt]

First, THANKS for the Rochelle webcam! Keep the 3-second timing so you don't have to limit users as much. In my opinion, the #1 way to improve this webcam would be some way to allow users to know a train is approaching, whether sound [to hear train horns], incorporating signal aspects in some way, or clearing trees. It would also be an improvement if the size of the images could be doubled to improve viewing. But, even as it is, your Rochelle webcam is a delight. LT

[JDV5th]

Keep it like it is. Sound would be very cool if even possible. Establishing other web cams would be great too (North Platte, Neb.?) :-)

[Anonymous]

please keep it just the way it is. I agree with the others about how nice it would be to have other sites. I hope to go there this summer to see it all in person.thanks again for the site you do have
Robertdale

[Anonymous]

SORRY!!!!! I hit the wrong button and thought I erased the first message and I retyped it over again. Some day maybe I'll get the hang of this damn thing. The Storm

[Anonymous]

I just voted and my two cents worth went to the leave it just the way it is option. However some of the suggestions for expanding the webcam idea merit looking at. Then again they may be to expenseive to implement.

[Anonymous]

I just voted and my two cents worth went to the option of leaving the webcam just the way it is. Also some of the suggestions to expand deserve to be considered. However the cost to implement them my be prohibitive.

[earledward]

I THINK IT IS GREAT TO JUST HAVE THIS WEBCAM..WHY DO WE ALWAYS HAVE TO FIND SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT...I SAY LET THE GUYS THAT ARE LOOKING AFTER IT...DO IT..I AM SURE THEY ARE PROVIDING US WITH THE BEST THEY KNOW HOW
EARL...SANDY LAKE MANITOBA CANADA

[Anonymous]

Keep it as is. Yet, every time I've to the site it seems like same person is walking in front or same car is gonig by. Do you tape this and play again??

[Anonymous]

The needs of the many outweighs the wants of the few... If you went to higher frequency of pix, increased bandwidth, viewers with slower modems (and there are still many out there) would have difficulty seeing anything. Good work on keeping it available for our fun and relaxation.

[Anonymous]

I spent many enjoyable days at Rochelle, it is awesome. Leave the web site the way it is. Norman J. Weimar Jr. Ret. US NAVY. Great Lakes, IL last command.

[Anonymous]

I like Trains the way it is BUT i miss the locomotive list of builders, Railroads Model Numbers Unit Classes Like you did on U.P. SD-90 MAC "s Ilike Fairbanks Morse & Company Locomotives " H 24 66 , H 10 44 , H 12 44 " H 16 66 " C.& n.w. 's Yous

[Anonymous]

I would like to see it more flexible like the moveable cam that you had at the bridge on the Mississippi that time

[Anonymous]

I guess this topic will qualify for my first post: short-time watcher, first-time poster...please be gentle with me! I stumbled across this whole site just a few days ago, really enjoy the live cam; and have yet to be kicked off...even after having it open for hours at a time. I'm the campus paramedic at the 3rd largest college in Iowa. Most of my 12-hour shift involves watching the world go by, so watching trains go by is a plus! I would vote to leave things as they are, but with one request that I haven't seen yet: If possible, configure it so that it could be in it's own little window, that could be "parked" anywhere on the screen. This way, a viewer that has to actually do work on the computer can, and yet the train cam is still open, and viewable. Several TV stations in Iowa have done that with their weather radars, which by the way, only refresh every 3-5 minutes. I'm quite happy with the 3 seconds!

Thanks much for the cam, it and this whole site are a wonderful diversion from WORK!

[Anonymous]

I miss the Fort Madison Web Cam

Dennis Holmes

[Anonymous]

Well I enjoy watching it, and have no problems with the timing of it. Unless the trains start moving through at 300 MPH then 1.5 sec. won't make much of a difference.

It's just too bad that we can't have it so the window could be larger. Not sure how this would effect the bandwith issue. I too, as others have specified, would love to have sounds.

Just to have live train sounds on my computer while working would totally rock.

[Anonymous]

Is this heaven? or Is this hell ? Id say keep It the way it is.mrlove.

[Anonymous]

If it workes don't fix it. Thats a good saying ,but, it seems to me that if there wasn't any
need to adress the "problem" by taking a poll, the need for one say's, time for change.
I don't see where decreasing bandwith would solve conflicts. I'm with the idea of more "Camsights".