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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, June 3, 2011 11:43 PM

mittelfruh1

You guys are killing me. I haven't been able to get the cam for about a month now. Maybe it's because I'm up here in Canada?? I've got the latest updates, all my other cams work like a charm. Anyone else still frustrated?

 

Have you tried all three methods of accessing the camera image?

The following is written from the viewpoint of using Windows... if you are using a MAC or something else then the address and image size and frame rates will be the same but some of my descriptions of how the media player gets run will be different than what you will see (and I have no idea what would be the equivalent).

 

For the largest image and most frames per second use:

http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCmov

This one will open a new  tab in the browser (or a maybe new window) and then run Windows Media Player and close the window/tab that was opened.  Be advised that being the largest image and the most frames per second it will consume the most bandwidth on your internet connection and if you have a limit of bytes per day/week/month imposed by your ISP you might overrun that limit and be reduced in the speed of your connection for the duration of their measuring period before it comes back to full speed again.  Also, if there are other users of your connection to the internet they may experience slow connection speed while you are viewing the video.

 

The 2nd method is to hover the mouse arrow over the word "Interactive" in the line of text below the banner at the top of this page (the one you are reading now), then select "WebCams" from the menu that drops down and follow the appropriate link shown on the webcams page that will appear.

This method will also, like the 1st method, open a new tab/window, then open Windows Media Player and then close the new tab/window, but it uses considerably less bandwidth from your ISP, because the image is smaller and the frame rate is so low (one per second).  But, because of the low frame rate, trains "jerk" along the track (and automobiles "jump" down the street) and that can be disconcerting..

 

The 3rd method is via a connection from the Hotel Roanoke:

RoanokeRailCam.com

and then click on the image at the top of the page to get to a page that shows the railcam.  The image will be embedded in the page viewed in the browser.

These will open in a new tab or window of your browser and present the smaller size image but at a higher frame rate than the 2nd method above, so it is kind of a middle of the road connection as far as bandwidth from your ISP.

 

If you cannot get any of these to work, then we can try something else to see what the problem is on your PC.

 

 

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Posted by mittelfruh1 on Friday, June 3, 2011 10:39 PM

You guys are killing me. I haven't been able to get the cam for about a month now. Maybe it's because I'm up here in Canada?? I've got the latest updates, all my other cams work like a charm. Anyone else still frustrated?

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, June 3, 2011 9:58 PM

I have viewed the hotel cam several times lately in the wee hours of the AM (1 to 5 AM EDT) and it seems to be in color all night.

I supposed that someone saw our bemoaning about it in this thread and figured out how to make it stay in color.  It also seems to be better focused for distance than it was and I have not noticed the random "focus seeking" it used to go through when a car drove by with the headlights on. 

A big THANK YOU  Bow  to whoever it was that did those things!

 

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, June 3, 2011 9:24 PM

...Just took a peek at hotel cam and sure enough....an eastbound with NSs on point for power.  And I believe I could see what must be at least part of the "web" fluttering in the breeze.  Left center area of pic.  Cam still showing color.

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Posted by switch7frg on Friday, June 3, 2011 12:28 PM

  Hmm  Yes Spidey is back and with a vengence. Is he trying to capture a train. The web is tied to a tree  on one side and to the far signal bridge ??  At 1010am cam time train passed just under the web, whew close call.  Uncle Pete is in town , is that a lease hour power engine??

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, June 2, 2011 1:29 PM

The spider web usually does not last long, it gets built in the late afternoon or early evening and by AM the wind and flying bugs have usually destroyed most of it.

Right now I see a remnant of it right at the top of the image half way across... Looks like an out-of-focus, jittery black cloud agains the blue sky.

Last night a similar "blob" was almost dead center in the scene (just above center and slightly to the left).

 

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, June 2, 2011 10:32 AM

.......The weather seems nice and clear in Roanoke today...Can even see the mountains in the background quite clear late this morning.

See no evidence of a spicer web now...if so, perhaps the sun has to be at a certain angle to bring it out....Or maybe it's been removed...??

No trains.  lots of cars in parking lot.

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, June 2, 2011 8:57 AM

Great to have the hotel cam back . These periods of severe withdrawal are tough .   RON

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:10 PM

SPIDEYs back!  Sigh 

It may be an arachnid, but it seems to be too much of a HAM, and built the web smack dab in the middle of the field of view!  Grumpy 

 

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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 1:41 PM

....To whom ever credit is due...Thanks.  Cam is working normal again.  Looks like a nice day in Roanoke.  No trains right now, but looks like a very pretty late Spring day...Just as we're having.

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Posted by jlrc47 on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:03 PM

Its up now at http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCmov. If it does not work for you, you might need to check your internet browser settings and if it needs any updates.

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Posted by mittelfruh1 on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:51 PM

Still not working for me. It's been weeks.

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Posted by mittelfruh1 on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:51 PM

Still not working for me. It's been weeks.

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Posted by jlrc47 on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 2:28 PM

Hotel Cam is up and running again. Thank you for getting it running again.

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Posted by jlrc47 on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:01 AM

No only the low resolution is working http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCtrainsDOTcom.

I am hoping the IT peeps get to look into it now that Memorial Day is done.

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Posted by j610 on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:01 AM

Has anyone been able to bring up the hotel cam .   RON

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Posted by j610 on Sunday, May 29, 2011 4:21 AM

Hotel cam still down . Has anyone heard anything about the problem or when it will be fixed ?   RON

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Saturday, May 28, 2011 7:16 PM

Two of the links I know of for the Hotel cam are down, but the third one is working.

Unfortunately it is the "low rez", "slow update rate" (1 frame per second):

http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCtrainsDOTcom

Don't know why the other two are not working.

 

 

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Posted by j610 on Friday, May 27, 2011 6:58 PM

7:58 pm . Still down .   RON

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Posted by jlrc47 on Friday, May 27, 2011 10:23 AM

I sadly see the Roanoke hotel cam is down. Crying

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Posted by RichardLHight on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 3:50 PM
Ron,
 
My wife and I visited the Virginia Museum of Transportation while the C&O 484 was on temporary display.  The museum offers a discount ticket that includes the O. Winston Link museum that documents the finial years of steam power on the Norfolk & Western.
 
Being an old head that has vivid memories of west coast railroading's use of steam power on the Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific, I could have spent days cherishing the many treasures that have survived the years when such things were considered junk to be salvaged for the war effort of the 1940's.
 
The OWL museum is located in the basement of the old N&W passenger depot that is just out of sight on the Roanoke Hotel cam and well worth the modest cost of admission.
 
 
 

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Posted by j610 on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 5:17 PM

Either my timing is off today or there isn`t much traffic .   RON

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Posted by j610 on Monday, May 23, 2011 5:12 AM

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

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Posted by tcwright973 on Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:19 PM

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.

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Posted by tcwright973 on Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:13 PM

Okay, let's see if this works.

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Posted by kolechovski on Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:59 AM

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.

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Posted by Modelcar on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:48 PM

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.

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Posted by rixflix on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:14 PM

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

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Posted by mittelfruh1 on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:14 AM

I haven't been able to get the cam for weeks now. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks, Paul Cummings in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

 

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Posted by j610 on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:45 AM

Very wet and stormy in Roanoke right now . I have had the cam up for a while and haven`t seen anything yet .   RON

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