hwoods Monday Nite - Midnight...... WB, Long mixed freight headed out. Waiting under the Bridge (2nd St??) was an EB, or so it looked. Went to the Museum Cam and at that time, it started EB. Back to Hotel Cam. Train pulled forward to the Crossover and stopped. After 5 minutes, he started backing up. I went back to the Museum Cam and watched. Mostly ADMX Covered Hoppers, then a Old, "Used" Looking CABOOSE! then a HLCX Geep and a NS Geep. NS was 3378, didn't get the # on the Helm Leasing unit......... The Caboose # is 555036......
Monday Nite - Midnight...... WB, Long mixed freight headed out. Waiting under the Bridge (2nd St??) was an EB, or so it looked. Went to the Museum Cam and at that time, it started EB. Back to Hotel Cam. Train pulled forward to the Crossover and stopped. After 5 minutes, he started backing up. I went back to the Museum Cam and watched. Mostly ADMX Covered Hoppers, then a Old, "Used" Looking CABOOSE! then a HLCX Geep and a NS Geep. NS was 3378, didn't get the # on the Helm Leasing unit......... The Caboose # is 555036......
I had to wait for a couple of through freights before the caboose came back out to play...
I think I have gotten other photos of this one, but I wish I could get a photo of it in the daytime!
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Yep, That's it........ BTW, I said the Locomotives were Geeps........ Was that right?? I'm not one to tell a lot about motive power with only a Quick Glance....... At least I got Helm Leasing right. And, the Helm Unit looks to be ex BN....
"Knock down that Blue Flag and line us out of here, I think I can find Run 8 on this thing."
At 5:39 pm this evening, I spotted what I think they call the Norfolk Southern Track Inspection train. First time I've seen it.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
There was some discussion a few posts back about smoke. I found the explaination on another forum this morning. Not quite the most modern of technology, but hey, it must work.
"Norfolk Southern says the fire is a controlled burn.Spokesman Robin Chapman tells WSLS that crews put down, then set fire to peat moss, in order to expand the rails for replacement. Chapman said in cold weather rails contract, and crews use this method to heat them up before replacing them.Chapman added that Roanoke Fire-EMS was contacted, prior to the work beginning."
hwoods Yep, That's it........ BTW, I said the Locomotives were Geeps........ Was that right?? I'm not one to tell a lot about motive power with only a Quick Glance....... At least I got Helm Leasing right. And, the Helm Unit looks to be ex BN....
GPs are generally 4 axles. The 33xx is an SD40-2, and the Helm junker looks to be a 6-axle, too.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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They are supposed to be moving the B & O steam engine into the museum tomorrow morning . I don`t know exactly what time , but i am trying to find out . If and when i do i will post it on here . It will come past the hotel cam . It is being brought from the east end shops . RON
They are supposed to move the b&o steam engine between 10:30 and 11:30 this morning . Watch for it . Photographers are already waiting for it . RON
C & O 614 was on camera from 10:35 to 11:04 . RON
Did everyone go on vacation at the same time and forget to tell me ? RON
I can't believe I missed the C&O 614 on Thursday. I was reading the forums on this site at that very time but didn't have the camera on.
I'm not going to spend any more time watching it though, until they get the "jerkiness" removed. Now it is no better than the Rochelle, IL cam.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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....Well, I'm like several others....I missed it too. Probably was on here somewhere at that time,
Quentin
http://128.173.197.94:443/RRCmov
Sorry, I don't know how to activate a link in this software, but if you copy the above and paste in your browser you'll get smooth action.
Norm
Thank you very much, it works great. There was a couple of seconds there where I wasn't sure what was going on, but it loaded fine. There was some dialog box talking about "object", but it disappeared before I could read it, and the picture came up. Looks like a nice day there.
Thanks again.
The 614 was in front of the hotel cam for about 40 minutes . No jerkiness in that cam . RON
HOOO-Boy! now I've finally got technology conforming to my will. Thanks to Norm I've finally got the web cam working well, and I was able to get the Curling off of the Cable TV on Windows Media Center. I was able to re-size both so I can see them at the same time, so now I am really living large, as they say.
There was a funny non-RR related incident on the cam about an hour ago. What looked like a first generation Chrysler-built minivan came in from the west. It had a major cooling system malfunction because as it was stopped at the three way stop sign, steam was coming out under the front. Then it turned left with a huge cloud of steam/smoke? coming out from under both sides and the back. I seriously doubt it made it very far off camera!
Somebody wasn't having a good day.
Well - I found out the source of the ol' herky-jerky on my PC - I was using WinAmp. Changed to RealPlayer and the jerkiness is gone.
Looks a little out of focus - I'm guessing that's something with the cam, though.
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I noticed that too Larry. Shortly before it switched to nigh-time mode the resolution went to pot. After it turned to B/W the resolution came back. Never seen it do that before.
It also works well in Windows Media Player. For the best resolution, see the IP address I posted earlier in the thread. It has better resolution than the link from the magazine. Copy, paste, bookmark.
Ron ; from 10:35 VMTcam time to13:10 3378 is moving EB. to the musem, then back up That has happened several times . Are they kicking cars or just testing forward and reverse shift lever.? Also the little red caboose is behind the green smoker. Is the numbers all 5s on the caboose ?
Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Interesting sight on the web cam about 13:30 EST. There were both EB and WB mixed cargo trains passing by at the same time. The correlation between the types of cars was amazing. It would be real interesting to have compared the manifests of each train to see if the loads were going one way and the empties the other. Of course each train had both loads and empties.
You will see meet's in real life between stackers or unit trains, but I can't recall the last time I ever saw two so perfectly matched mixed consists trains.
They are probably assembling or breaking up trains in the west end yards . Not sure about the caboose thing , i haven`t seen enough of them clearly to know about the numbers . RON
WOW,
that was a lot of empty hoppers. Where would they break that train down ?
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.
With all these different sightings, I just took a peek over at the hotel cam....and the cubbard was bare, but there is {what I believe}, is a MOW vehicle backed into the fence in the parking area...That's been there for several days.
Trains are made up and broken down in the west end yards . RON
Who breks that train? Seems like a lot of ground work. Is therw a crrew shack nearby where the guys go out to break "em ?.
The center of this map is the location of the webcam. Just to the right is the Link Museum, further right is the NS shops (home to the business train). To the left is VMT (location of another webcam), and if you scroll further left, you'll see the yards.
Follow the double track east and you're going over the Blue Ridge grade and on to Lynchburg. I still haven't figured out where the helper siding called "Boaz" was located.
Thanks , TREE68. Great map . RON
2011.01.25
I brought up the hotel cam at 10:01, just in time to see the last 20 cars of an EB mixed consist with the bright red caboose bringing up the rear. This is the one that has been recently painted with the white roof and modern NS stallion logo that I think was used by Santa when he came to town. I might be wrong, but I think the car number for this caboose is 55555. Had I opened the VMT cam, I would have had a chance to see the caboose pass by, but no such luck.
Rich
Those that desire, find a way..... Those that don't, find an excuse.
The VMT cam has sure gone BLURRY!
.....Yes, very much out of focus.
Yes , way too blurry and jerky for me . I don`t watch it anymore because the stop action irritates me . RON
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