2:10 am and the hotel cam is still color . RON
Great and the museum cam is down again. RON
Rich
Those that desire, find a way..... Those that don't, find an excuse.
All i can say is we finally got the good one back . I think the museum cam is a waste of time because you can never depend on it to be up and running when you want it . RON
NOW HEAR THIS. SWEEPERS MAN YOUR BROOMS, SWABBERS MAN YOUR SWABS
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
.....When the "sweepers" come down the ice to do their "sweeping", how are they able to stand, and move around on the ice without slipping or falling....?
Quentin
Bruce; Curling is an interesting sport to me. When they are sweeping the ice , does that generate a large charge of static electricity ?? Just curious.
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Not usually . It goes to black & white between 6 & 7 p m most of the time . RON
It has apparently run all night in color. Someone else said they thought it had to do with capacity issues on the system it is hosted on. If there are no other demands, then the camera can continue to run in color.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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A little after 9:00 pm tonight, and the web cam is still broadcasting in color. Does this happen often?
Pittsburgh, PA
Well, so ends another 2 hrs. and 43 mins. of observations of the Roanoke Web Cam. Yesterday, after a particularly stressful and busy 5 or 6 days I put the double CD "Rolling Stones: 40 Licks" on, and watched the camera for about 2 hrs., and found it very relaxing. So today I listened to "Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits" and "ElvIIs 2nd To None".
Tomorrow starts 4 days with 28 hrs of TV coverage of a major Curling event here in Canada, so I won't be looking at the computer much at all. I still have more double CD's so I may try this again at some point in the future.
I personally have never before counted out a 171 car train. Frankly, I always had a tiny suspicion that reports of trains that size were exaggerated. But now I know better.
It was a needed change and a nice way to spend an afternoon.
OS Roanoke Web Cam. WB. 3 NS units. 171 cars. 18:49 EST. Took approx. 12 minutes to pass camera.
BWM
OS Roanoke Cam. WB. 1 NS unit. 7 cars. Displayed FRED. 18:27 EST.
OS Roanoke Web Cam. EB. 2 NS units. 69 cars. 18:20 EST. Took approx. 8 minutes to pass camera.
OS Roanoke Web Cam. EB. 3 NS units. Intermodal Train, 101 tables. 18:01 EST. Took approx. 9 minutes to pass camera.
OS Roanoke Web Cam. EB. 2 NS units. 7 cars. 17:36 EST.
OS Roanoke Web Cam. EB. 3 NS units. Intermodal Train, 71 tables in various 5, 3, and singles. 17:18 EST. Took approx. 6 minutes to pass camera.
The VMT cam is almost worthless . It keeps dropping off line and when it is online i can`t take the jerky stop action for very long . RON
Saw one of the cabeese go east late this AM, so I figured I'd wait until it came back like it usually does within an hour or so and get a screenshot of it on the VMT cam...
Waited 3 - 4 hours and almost missed it going by the hotel., but it stopped down near the pedestrian bridge, so I got the VMT cam on and ready... Waited another 15 minutes or more and just as it started to move again toward the VMT cam... the VMT cam shut down! When it started to work again the whole consist was gone.
This is the 3rd time this has happened! I am beginning to think the VMT cam as a "caboose detector" on it that shuts it down when the caboose is near!
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
C & O 614 is going to arrive at VMT on feb. 12 . It will be displayed in front of 1218 . RON
Been listening to the radio . A lot of activity going on in the yards to the west . RON
....Just checked the site for work activity, saw none. But did see a single power unit pulling about a dozen auto carriers east as I looked for a min. or two.
Snowing again and starting to stick . Quite a bit of traffic tonight . RON
I have noticed all that equipment also . I agree with you , it is probably routine maintainence somewhere up the line . RON
If you view the VMT cam you can see one of the diggers parked on the north side of the tracks on the left. It went there by the hotel cam about an hour ago.
In the last couple of days, I have seen empty dump trucks headed east and full ones headed west in the parking lot. And 2 or 3 different catepillar tread "diggers" headed east in the AM and west in the PM in the same "race track"!
It seem there is something going on to the east of the hotel walkway.
But I think it is some sort of scheduled work, not due to a problem with a train -- too orderly and fewer MOW trucks parked everywhere!
They all disappeared , so it must not have been too big a problem . RON
....Just witnessed two {maybe more}, hi rail {trucks}, with flashing lights heading east on the far track. That's what I saw as I just tuned to the site.
I wonder....Is there another problem.....?
OS Roanoke Web Cam. WB. 1 NS unit. 9 cars. 18:51 EST.
(It was not a yard movement, it had a FRED. Also missed a EB of at least 16 autoboxes while I was typing the previous OS.)
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