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Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, March 27, 2010 9:21 AM

.....At 10:13 am {EDT}....just witnessed a lengthy {not Amtrak}, passenger train....{priviate cars..?}, passing left to right on the track closest to video cam....Did not see the very beginning of it, so don't know what engines were on the head end.  All cars were of dark maroon color and one near the end was a full dome....

Wonder what I was witnessing........?  I counted 12 cars, but as I said, I did not see the whole train...

This is a great site.....boy if it just had sound....

Edit: 

Just watched a very loooong double stack east bound....5:22 EDT.

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Posted by Modelcar on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:54 PM

....With the location of that rail cam now, my opinion....it's one of the best on here.  Now if it just had sound like the one we pick up over in the Netherlands.

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Posted by wrawroacx on Monday, March 22, 2010 9:42 PM

I've watched the railcam now 35 to 40 mintues and have seen 3 trains go through. Right a Railbox Train is going through with probably over 150 to 200 Railbox Boxcars with 5 to 6 Engines pulling it. It's been going through here now 20 to 25 minutes and just ended. What a long Train with just Boxcars. It did have one Grain Car in front of the Boxcars and on the end it had another Grain Car. Maybe the Boxcars have something Flammable in them. Who knows. But boy what a long Boxcar Train.

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Posted by Modelcar on Monday, March 22, 2010 7:07 PM

DennisHeld
I can put it into full screen mode and it's like watching a video.

 

That full screen view is pretty neat.  Just a bit grainy but not bad....

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Posted by DennisHeld on Monday, March 22, 2010 7:02 PM
I am very impressed!! I can put it into full screen mode and it's like watching a video. Very impressive. Can we do that with Rochelle?
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Posted by Modelcar on Monday, March 22, 2010 6:40 PM

.....After looking at the aerial view from satellite this morning as posted earlier, I believe we see via the web cam, the area just to the left, out of view of what was a passenger station....Maybe those cars parked perpendictular to the street are in some remaining space from former passenger station.  Believe the satellite site indicated a musuem in that building now...and perhaps some of the passenger station is now offices or some businesses, hence all the cars parked there during working hours.  just my assumption.   Anyone really know.

One other observation....The track closest to the web cam seems to be off the main like it was there to serve stopped passenger trains.

Edit:  Anyone have knowledge of any passenger trains on this line.....?  If so, any idea roughly what time of day.....?

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Posted by rdamon on Monday, March 22, 2010 11:06 AM
It is also fun to watch the people try to back out of the parking spaces at 5pm without hitting the guard rail.
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Posted by Modelcar on Monday, March 22, 2010 9:59 AM

Just checked the daytime web cam in Roanoke, and would you believe, I saw my first train coming thru....Right to left, and it looked like a local, one engine and grain cars, a few tanks, etc.....And another one standing in the background in the distance.  Time 10:56.

Edit:  And another one at 11:11......3 NS engines...headed left to right.

......And more local movements.  Seems to be a rather busy place this morning.

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Posted by rdamon on Monday, March 22, 2010 5:46 AM
Agreed, Great Work!! - Conference Calls are much better now.

Here is a Google Map link to the area.

Roanoke Web Cam

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Posted by BigJim on Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:07 PM

Looks like they have moved the camera to the top of the pedestrian overpass from Hotel Roanoke to the Market Square area. Looks a lot better. Nice job Lads.

Shenandoah Ave. is in the foregrond. The first signals on right are for North Jefferson St. The next signals to the right are for Henry St.

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Posted by kolechovski on Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:16 PM

Indeed, that's a signal on the right.  It doesn't to seem to be especially visible during the bright day hours, but perhaps on cloudy days it might be viewable.  Certainly at evening, the lights were well visible.

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:07 PM

Modelcar said it right:  "Wow!"

Being on the daylight west coast, I was just shocked to see it nighttime on the east coast!

Autos moving with their lights on could be seen in the night view.

Fantastic!

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Posted by Modelcar on Sunday, March 21, 2010 7:45 PM

kolechovski
They now have this cam in a new position, and the frame rate is restored.  It actually looks nice from this angle, too, and you can see more of the track

 

Wow......You are correct....That is really a nice view now....Even looks like a signal at the right.  Smooth streaming.  Last I checked it was perhaps a month ago.  This is really great now....I've just looked at it as a night shot.  I too have never seen a train on it, but I'll check more often now.  A great improvement.

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Posted by kolechovski on Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:12 PM

They now have this cam in a new position, and the frame rate is restored.  It actually looks nice from this angle, too, and you can see more of the track.  In fact, on a train led by NS 9000, the third unit was a Conrail-painted 5407.  But I still can't save screenshots in Windows Media Player, so all I could do was watch it go by.  Check out the new cam position!

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Posted by kolechovski on Monday, June 8, 2009 5:19 PM

It wouldn't be so bad if they'd just cut down the trees...

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, June 8, 2009 4:44 PM

Aha!  Just took a look at the cam and actually caught a train going by (however slowly).

The Roanoke Hotel looks south across the tracks, with the VA Museum of Transportation on the right (out of sight), and the Link Museum and the Roanoke Shops on the left (as you view the cam).  Both are worth a visit.

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Monday, June 8, 2009 3:05 PM

I've tried that one several times, I wouldn't know how good the view of the trains actually are since I never have actually seen one go past yet.

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ROANOKE RAIL CAM
Posted by j610 on Monday, June 8, 2009 10:59 AM

Hi everbody . Just went to the roanoke rail cam site . Boy , is it a joke . Camera is so far away you can not see much of anything . It should be named the roanoke city view cam . It seems to me that a rail cam should be close to the rails . After all , aren`t the trains supposed to be the main focus ? Oh well , just my two cents worth .        RON

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