I watch every morn when it is coffee time. Iam watching to see the white pickup still parked there day and night. Maybe the owner is a hobo drifter, and not any where near this place.
Jim
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Still raining .Not much action today , at least not in the times i was on . RON
Heads up:
Special train in cam view now. {4} ABBA units with maybe Executive {N S}, train....Can just see one pass. car.
Quentin
The four units are center screen on the cam right now . RON
I think they may be tied down for the night . Big shots are probably staying at the hotel roanoke tonight . RON
My bet is that is is for a Autumn Colors Excursion this weekend... maybe starting Friday.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Quentin; you are right, the engines are tied down. The signal bridge is showing all red. This is at 7:45pm MST. The car bihind the engine has a light in the window ( for the hoggers and crew to find their way home??) for supper. HEH HEH . Gonna check VRM cam now.
Cannonball
Executive train pulled out at 7:10 this morning . RON
...Ron, did you see if it had a long consist of pass cars....?
And Cannonball....I wondered about the dim light in the pass car window last night too. Didn't look like any of the engines were running....So I then thought it might just have been a street light {along that walking path}, on the far side of the tracks, shining thru a facing window in the pass car.
Noticed a blinking light a couple hundred feet ahead of the lead engine. looked like it was on or at the track the train was setting on.
Whatever it all was, it was something a bit different to look at...Noted quite a few cars driving down along side of the train last night, and thought perhaps it was just rail fan onlookers.
I also noticed a lot more cars traversing that parking lot at night and assumed they were railfans.
There was also someone parked at the far end that would periodically get out of the car and walk to the near end, be gone for a few minutes and then walk back to the car. He had a bright flashlight that he periodically would shine on the sides of the engines and between them. I assumed he was Night Security for the consist.
The flashing light may be the light on a switch. I have seen similar flashing from a signal between tracks 2 and 3 about the center of the scene. But I also wonder if maybe is was similar to a highway barracade flashing light and maybe it was on a Derail that was protecting the mainline from the consist (in case it decided to make an unscheduled midnight excursion).
And that white pickup truck is still there.
.....Yes, I too thought the flashing light might have been associated with a derail.
There were 10 cars . There was an open platform car on the rear with a full length dome car ahead of it .The engines were shut down for the night . I watched them being fired up this morning . RON
cant seem to get the cam to work my meida player must be messed up
cam is working at my end with Media player.
My timing isn`t very good lately . Every time i log on , nothing is happening . I will just keep on trying . RON
Geez...I haven't visited this thread in forever. Everybody, look at the webcam now! There's a passenger special of some sort on the cam! The VMT railcam is down, likely from flooded traffic. Does anybody know anything about this thing?
kolechovski Geez...I haven't visited this thread in forever. Everybody, look at the webcam now! There's a passenger special of some sort on the cam! The VMT railcam is down, likely from flooded traffic. Does anybody know anything about this thing?
Gee, thanks for the heads up. What a nice site. Is it too late for a Fall colored leaf special....?
Boy, wish we had scheduled pass. consists passing thru there everyday.
Edit: Train just backed to the left....3 Amtrak engines on the point. Nice site.
Another edit: Appears the engines have run around the consist and now facing east. Didn't actually count the cars, but must be roughly, 35 or so....Some full domes.
3 engines & 25 cars, four of them domes. It's the trip from Spencer N.C. Will be running to Toccoa, Ga tomorrow.
Thanks for the heads-up... nice to get the subsribed to a topic e-mail in this instance!
Now a question... I had trouble counting the cars (wish I had recorded the move) so I can only estimate that there are about 30 passenger cars. Anybody get an accurate count? EDIT: Oops, I see co2726ehp got a count and posted before I got done typing.
Now another question... Why are there 3 AMTRAK engines on the point? I thought passenger cars would be lots lighter than freight cars and I see many freight trains of 50 to 100 cars with only 2 engines. Are the passenger cars all that much heavier, or the AMtRAK engines all that much weaker or is the railroad demanding triple redundancy because they don't want a stupid old passenger train to breakdown on the line and tie up traffic?
No idea. Maybe so many cars have power requirements that the additional locos must generate. The train seems to have pretty much boarded. That cone on the left keeps blowing over, but it does not look very windy there.
EDIT-The train just finished leaving after 3 PM. Winds have picked up feavily there and were even jiggling the camera. Any guys from this forum on that train? I noticed a few people waving and dancing for the camera. No, I don't think they're going to get on So You Think You Can dance...
It has left at 2.04 cst.Long train
Newswire:
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-I wonder if this will be coming down one of the tracks coming into Roanoke, and, if we'll get to see it on the camera. Keep watching for this one in the future.
It certainly represented it's heritage well. Took many photographs of it back in the 80's as it visited Muncie, In.
Have a series of shots I took of it leaving Munice on the Frankton line, west...with a consist of perhaps 20 or so passenger cars. I was on an overhead bridge and watched it approach at a pretty good speed, and got a series of photos of it as it came toward me.
It visited Muncie several times.
does anyone know what the amtrak train number is that left yesterday?
Train number, no, but I see the lead loco is numbered 93, and the second loco is 136, and the third is 148, all Amtrak locos, running in AAB formation. Maybe this can help. I also saw a large number of buses running that day.
I caught the train, and it appeared to be backing into the yard. it sure seemed long for a passenger train. Led me to believe it was a fall excursion. I think having three locomotives up front was primarily to produce hotel power for all those cars.
Norm
Why are a bunch of Coca Cola trucks all lined up, blocking traffic? You can see them on the VMT cam...link:
EDIT- it seems to have been an accident there. At least 1 firetruck showed up, and other unknown emergency vehicles. I don't see any spilled Coke bottles that people are scrambling to gather, so it must not have involved any of the Coke trucks. The delay on the live feed is really noticeable compared with the VMT cam, a good 30 secs.
The stuff is set up again today, though I see no passenger train. Did it already depart, or will it be coming and going soon? How long will these trains be running? Even Roanoke seems to have lost a significant amount of foliage.
Yeah, I see the orange cones and yellow tape, but I have not seen any trains that I would associate with them. Lots of light engine moves to the west on that track, though.
I also noticed that the whit pickup with the low topper had gone away last week, but now it is back.
And what is with that yellow pickup at the far end of the parking lot. Is it missing the front wheels or did something real heavy fall on the hood? (It looks squished!)
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