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.
BWM
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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OS Roanoke Web Cam. EB. 2 NS units. 7 cars. 17:36 EST.
Bruce
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. 69 cars. 18:20 EST. Took approx. 8 minutes to pass camera.
OS Roanoke Cam. WB. 1 NS unit. 7 cars. Displayed FRED. 18:27 EST.
OS Roanoke Web Cam. WB. 3 NS units. 171 cars. 18:49 EST. Took approx. 12 minutes to pass camera.
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.
A little after 9:00 pm tonight, and the web cam is still broadcasting in color. Does this happen often?
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
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.
Not usually . It goes to black & white between 6 & 7 p m most of the time . RON
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
.....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
NOW HEAR THIS. SWEEPERS MAN YOUR BROOMS, SWABBERS MAN YOUR SWABS
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)
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
Great and the museum cam is down again. RON
2:10 am and the hotel cam is still color . RON
It's Thursday, 530pm, and we're still in Brilliant Living Color!!..... BUT, the picture is Jerky, like the Museum Cam............
"Knock down that Blue Flag and line us out of here, I think I can find Run 8 on this thing."
Each time this afternoon I've turned to the hotel cam I've seen a train. The last peek, was in the last half our {from the west cam under the bridge}, there was two trains....and on the far track was the red caboose, but I just got a glimpse if it....as the train on the near track was covering it....
I just looked in now &15pm EST, and it's back to Black and White and still jerky... Empty Coal drag heading west.........
Yep, B&W now, but it is as smooth as ever for me... I guess sometimes an automobile passing directly under the camera will appear a bit jerky, but for the most part it is updating at a very high rate... not like the VMT cam that updates every 2 to 20 seconds (if it happens to actually update at all!).
Lights indicate a WB train coming on tracks 2 or 3 to the northmost track to the west.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
I Forgot to ask - Is anyone else getting the "Jerky" stuff that I'm seeing here??.....
OK, Found the Problem..................... There seems to be TWO urls for the Web Cam. Both use the same numerical sequence up thru "RRC" RRCMov is still smooth as normal. The other one, which I haven't seen before, is RRCtrainsDOTcom.......
Hey, Harve - Fancy meeting you here!
For the record, at 1940 the cam is B&W and "stop motion."
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Eastbound just came by..... With a Caboose......... Picture is in Black and White, of course....
B & O 614 is on its way to roanoke . Unfortunately , not under its own power . RON
Saw a train around 9:00 pm with 1 standard unit up front followed by 2 slugs . Busy night . RON
Ewwwww! Look at the webcam! WTF, man? Dude, like, seriously, WTF!? That is incredibly ugly, jerky, and low resolutionny. Why did they do that!? Ugh...I'd take the old cam over this, even with the periods of downtime it had.
I can still notice the Slight Tap On Petal people just as well, though. And it ain't just the small vehicles...big trucks just slow down a number of times as well (a couple didn't even appear to slow down). I'm surprised there ain't a cop taking full advantage of the situation (and even the camera). They could even forward some of the profits to help the camera operation stay maintained.
EDIT-I tried that URL trick a guy above me ntioned. It does restore the real-time motion, but, alas, the quality is permanently downgraded.
kolechovski, What URL are you watching? I am watching at http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCmov.
As stated above posts the URL http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCtrainsDOTcom IS a Very Poor picture.
Joe
Chicopee,MA
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