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Posted by tcwright973 on Saturday, May 7, 2011 1:41 PM

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.

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Posted by kolechovski on Saturday, May 7, 2011 2:24 PM

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?

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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, May 8, 2011 7:43 AM

....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.

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Posted by MQuonceHotelRoanoke on Monday, May 9, 2011 9:06 AM

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.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, May 9, 2011 1:28 PM

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.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, May 9, 2011 1:31 PM

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.

 

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Posted by j610 on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:57 AM

Did any of you find out what the exhibit car is for ? Is it going to the museum ?      RON

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Posted by j610 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:52 AM

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

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, May 12, 2011 1:24 PM

....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...?

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Posted by j610 on Friday, May 13, 2011 9:42 AM

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

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Posted by tcwright973 on Friday, May 13, 2011 4:52 PM

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?

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Posted by j610 on Friday, May 13, 2011 4:59 PM

I guess i just missed the rectifier being moved . Did see 9 units moving to the yards . 7 NS and two UP .    RON

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Posted by RichardLHight on Friday, May 13, 2011 8:56 PM
Tom,
 
The electric loco painted in Virginian livery is one of the many examples of rolling stock at the VMT.  A number of units needed to be moved when the C&O 4-8-4 was taken off display last week.

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Posted by tcwright973 on Friday, May 13, 2011 10:13 PM

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.

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Posted by 22dec on Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:48 AM

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.

 

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Posted by j610 on Saturday, May 14, 2011 9:17 AM

Its an alco T6 #41 lettered for norfolk & western . The NRHS mechanical department sent it up to the museum for roanoke rail day .   RON

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Posted by switch7frg on Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:27 AM

 Whistling 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 ??

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Posted by Norm48327 on Sunday, May 15, 2011 1:48 PM

I've been striking out lately. Each time I go there it seems like Mother Hubbard's cupboard.Wink

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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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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 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. 

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

Okay, let's see if this works.

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

7:58 pm . Still down .   RON

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