Rich - I think you are right. After reading your post, I checked the VMT web site. They are indeed having "Roanoke Rail Day." I never gave that a thought.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Some very nice variety of locos is going by. I'm having a bad time with saving snapshots of them, but you all can check out either cam for good stuff. Do they have any special train movements planned for the day?
....Surprise.....Two groups of engines in view. Total of 7. On different tracks...?? Nothing moving.
Edit: 2 min. later, checking, and they had moved out of sight.
Quentin
This past weekend was the famed Strawberry Festival in Downtown Roanoke and the Chilli Cookoff. What you all were seeing was the Chilli Cook off on Saturday at the Rilside Plaza Amphitheater.
Roanoke Rail Day is coming up this weekend on Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fantastic attractions, specials and events happening all around Roanoke.
Caught this a few minutes ago. Came in on the left on track 1 (nearest to camera) westbound. Stopped just beyound the far signals and then reveresed to eastbound on track 2 to track 3 as seen here.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
whoops, posted before I was done.
I then saw it come back westbound on track 3, and I tried to use the VMT cam to capture a closeup... Stupid VMT cam (or my PC, more likely) decided to replay a couple of minutes worth of video from an hour prior, before it updated to the present time, and by then the car was long gone.
Did any of you find out what the exhibit car is for ? Is it going to the museum ? RON
Found out the exhibit car has exhibits and simulators for the rail days celebration at the museum . I hope to be able to attend . RON
....Across the tracks in front of the building on the left, we see emergency vehicles, including a fire truck....?? And just a few minutes ago dozens upon dozens of people walking from the distance around the parking lot towards that same building right across the tracks on the left of the scene.....Wonder what that's all about...?
Just saw three units heading west . Leading was a blue one with 2 diagonal white stripes , number two was a soo unit and trailing was a NS unit . RON
A few minutes ago I logged onto the railcam just in time to catch a switch engine apparently pushing some kind of electric locomotive. It was letter as "Virginian." Unfortunately, I only had time to hit "print screen." I was able to paste the image into WordPerfect, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it posted here. Anyone else see this?
I guess i just missed the rectifier being moved . Did see 9 units moving to the yards . 7 NS and two UP . RON
Rich
Those that desire, find a way..... Those that don't, find an excuse.
Thanks Rich. They were coming from the direction of the museum. By the way, does the museum have their own switch engine? The one pushing the electric didn't look like it was lettered for NS. Of course, with the rain nothing was all that clear.
A little later the switcher came back west bound. Couldn't read the side, but it was three words. Hopefully someone from the area will know what it was.
Don
Its an alco T6 #41 lettered for norfolk & western . The NRHS mechanical department sent it up to the museum for roanoke rail day . RON
Really active morning , at 12:20pm cam time it went to lunch. Different colored locos in view at that time. Not a good time to lunch. ~~~ Mike where for art thou ??
Jim
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
I've been striking out lately. Each time I go there it seems like Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
Norm
Very wet and stormy in Roanoke right now . I have had the cam up for a while and haven`t seen anything yet . RON
I haven't been able to get the cam for weeks now. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks, Paul Cummings in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
A nice train movement today. 7:30 onwards. Dispacther held the eastbound. let a westward go through , backed the eastwarrd into the yard while passing another eastward..Railroading!!!!
As large as the Roanoke yards seem to be, are they nearly plugged? I've seen in the past where trains seem to wait forever for clearance.
Good to see the rails humming and making money, and that was a mix of freight too.
RIX
rixflix aka Captain Video. Blessed be Jean Shepherd and all His works!!! Hooray for 1939, the all time movie year!!! I took that ride on the Reading but my Baby caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
mittelfruh1 I haven't been able to get the cam for weeks now. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks, Paul Cummings in Ottawa, ON, Canada.
mittelfruh1..........Just tried the cam and it is up and running. Still in color as of the time of my post. Looks like it has just turned dark....Just a bit of light in the western sky. Rails are empty as of this moment.
Guy with WordPerfect...try copy-pasting the pics into Microsoft Paint, and then save them there (JPEG format). I've been getting lucky in when I've been viewing the cam, I often see good variety of locos/freight, though my luck in capturing the images before updating is bad.
Okay, let's see if this works.
Kolechovski - Thanks for the suggestion. After reading your suggestion, I decided to try the following, which worked for me. I placed the image into WordPerfect Presentations, then saved as a JPEG image, then uploaded onto PhotoBucket, and thanks to you, here we are. This is the electric and switcher from last weekend that I had mentioned in a previous post.
Yesterday an engine and two slugs were headed east and I didn't bother saving an image. Guess who is kicking themselves now.
Have any of you been to the O. WINSTON LINK museum ? If so , how was it ? I have been to the transportation museum and it was great . RON
Either my timing is off today or there isn`t much traffic . RON
I sadly see the Roanoke hotel cam is down.
7:58 pm . Still down . RON
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