WOW; excitement@ 8:10 am. Engine# 3559 had excessive smoke from e ngine in front of the hotel. The " wrenches" properly beat onthe cold smoker.At 8:25 all OK and the train moved on and the wrenches left. Camera is working fine now , maybe the wrenches beat on the camera as well, HEE HEE.
Jim
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Can anyone else confirm the hotel cam is down? I haven't been getting it all day. The VMT cam is fine, and its refresh rate is in the normal zone, so it's not like excessive traffic is hurting anything. Anyone know what's going on? Maybe we could PM that guy who was a representative from the Hotel Roanoke.
Sorry, I just saw your post. I just tried the RailCam and it is working fine.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
....Yes, great...just tried it and we're in business....color too. I had tried an hour or so ago, and it was still down.
Quentin
I now just found out that that "antenna" on the far left of the VMT railcam...actually seems to be a flagpole! I just saw the flag wave on top in the wind! That still leaves the mysterious antenna on the far right of the cam, right of the smokestacks. It's not yet known where or what that one is.
I see the views have hit 65,535. That must mean that no more people will view this thread ever again. Either they'll be denied viewing, or the next viewer will cause the views to wrap around back to 0. And if there are 0 viewers, how can there be any posts? So, the posts will all be destroyed in a massive, fiery server crash. And if the lone person who was the next unlucky viewer was looking at it, and there are 0 viewers, then how can he be viewing it? So, his computer will also go through the roof. You guys see what bizarre things I think about sometimes? Er, let's hope this thread remains okay, eh?
Yep. Flag pole on the left.
The pole on the right is the lamp post on the pedestrian bridge that crosses the tracks Not the enclosed bridge associated with the hotel, but the girder/truss bridge closer to the camera. The post is on the far side (east side) of the bridge and can be easily seen from Google Earth's Street view. Position your self east of the pedestrian bridge on Norfolk Ave. and look UP. There is a narrow cross bar near the top and if you look closely to the VMT cam image you can see it.
As for the view count... it is now at 65551, so they must be using at least a 17 bit counter (and probably a 32 bit), so we have no worries about that.
Camera seems to be down most of this weekend.
Norm
.....Yes, just tried it, and it doesn't even try to load....A bit after 9 am, EST.
The 1 frame per second link is working so it is just some intermediate server that is not working.
Camera is working fine again for me this afternoon . RON
Chance of snow in Roanoke over the next few days . I haven`t seen much traffic lately . Could be my timing . RON
Checked in about a half hour ago, and cam working normal. West bound passing as I turned to it...
10:00 p m and its down again . At least for me it is . RON
Yeah, the two good ones are down for me too. The slow cam is working, but don't bother... it is raining and the wind is from the west so the window in front of the lens is full of water drops that severely distort everything and refract car headlights in odd ways all over the view.
Cam is back in business.....And a west bound was passing by. 1:05pm
Back on here also . I used to get frustrated when the cam went down . Then I realized that we are fortunate to have someone provide this service free of charge . All electronic items have their bad days and I need to be patient as the cam is not the hotel`s top priority . RON
....No snow in Roanoke. No trains passing now as I just checked either.
Cold , rainy , and a little slow tonight . More bad weather is supposed to be coming . RON
I quite agree Ron. This is a superb cam as far as I am concerned: I look most mornings, around dawn ET (around miday here) presently just to see what the waether is likein VA. It is, of course, a great bonus to witness a train passing through. I check in to the cam a couple of times later in the day.
Right now I am wondering who it is that is who is digging up Norfolk Avenue.
j610 I used to get frustrated when the cam went down . Then I realized that we are fortunate to have someone provide this service free of charge . All electronic items have their bad days and I need to be patient as the cam is not the hotel`s top priority . RON
I used to get frustrated when the cam went down . Then I realized that we are fortunate to have someone provide this service free of charge . All electronic items have their bad days and I need to be patient as the cam is not the hotel`s top priority . RON
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Good trainwatching night . Lots of traffic . RON
Very foggy in Roanoke tonight . Not much traffic while I have been logged in . RON
WOW !! at8:35 mst saw a little red caboose pulling a small string of oil cans and 3 locos bringing up the rear. The little caboose must have some super tractive effort.
So much for the Sunday "funnys"
Cannonball
switch7frg WOW !! at8:35 mst saw a little red caboose pulling a small string of oil cans and 3 locos bringing up the rear. The little caboose must have some super tractive effort. So much for the Sunday "funnys" Cannonball
Cannonball:
Years ago, some power was installed in the "Tender wheels", so I suppose the Caboose deserves to have some tractive effort too....
Rainy cold evening in roanoke . Has been fairly busy this evening . Mostly eastbound traffic . RON
....I've had off and on connections with this cam in the past week, but just now we took a look, and found a train going each direction. So, all's well for now.
Doesn`t seem to be as much traffic through Roanoke lately . Has anyone else noticed this or is it just bad timing on my part ? RON
I have not watched for a long time, but today I decided to check it out several times... I saw the same number of trains as when I was not watching. yeah, I'd say traffic is lower than normal.
The "cam" shows a group of white autos . Could they be Dealer demos intown for a show?? The past 2 days there has been MOW folks working at the signal bridge up to the auto bridge. Any thoughts on this?
I think it was late in the afternoon yesterday when I watched two different movements with each having a couple of slugs. One of the movements was around 8 locomorives only. Always interesting to see something a little different.. Tom
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
I can`t get the cam to load this morning . Don`t know if it is down or a problem with my computer . RON
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