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Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:43 AM

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.

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Posted by kolechovski on Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:35 AM

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?

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:09 PM

My timing isn`t very good lately . Every time i log on , nothing is happening . I will just keep on trying .    RON

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Posted by jlrc47 on Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:26 PM

cam is working at my end with Media player.

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Posted by nsfan51282 on Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:04 PM

cant seem to get the cam to work my meida player must be messed up 

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Posted by j610 on Friday, September 30, 2011 2:10 PM

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

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, September 30, 2011 9:56 AM

.....Yes, I too thought the flashing light might have been associated with a derail.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, September 30, 2011 9:46 AM

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.

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, September 30, 2011 9:22 AM

...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.

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Posted by j610 on Friday, September 30, 2011 6:16 AM

Executive train pulled out at 7:10 this morning .           RON

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Posted by switch7frg on Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:07 PM

Whistling 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.                              

        

        

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:18 PM

My bet is that is is for a Autumn Colors Excursion this weekend... maybe starting Friday.

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:22 PM

I think they may be tied down for the night . Big shots are probably staying at the hotel roanoke tonight .    RON

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:55 PM

I think they may be tied down for the night . Big shots are probably staying at the hotel roanoke tonight .    RON

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:10 PM

The four units are center screen on the cam right now .   RON

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:02 PM

Heads up:

Special train in cam view now.  {4} ABBA units with maybe Executive {N S}, train....Can just see one pass. car.

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Posted by j610 on Friday, September 23, 2011 7:20 PM

Still raining .Not much action today , at least not in the times i was on .    RON

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Posted by switch7frg on Friday, September 23, 2011 11:44 AM

WhistlingI 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.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, September 23, 2011 9:50 AM

My new laptop PC has an HDMI port on it, as does my digital TV.  So I bought an HDMI cable (egad them suckers am expensive... even though I found it on a clearance table!) and plugged an end of the cable into each port of the PC and TV.  The PC went "bloop-bloop" and the screen blanked and then came back at a slightly smaller resolution which jumbled all my desktop icons... RATZ!

I opened the resolution setting dialog and reset the resolution back to 1600x900 and it remembered where all the icons used to be!  Hooray!  First time I have ever seen that happen!

I pressed the HDMI button on the TV remote and there was a duplicate of my PC's "desktop" on my TV!, Mouse arrow and all.  I then found a dialog box that let me declare the HDMI output to be a different display (rather than a duplicate of the laptop's display).  So now I have a blank desktop on the TV screen (contains just the wallpaper I selected for the desktop, no icons).

The TV is a smaller resolution but can be changed to other values, but I have left it at the default for now.

I then ran Google Earth and just drug the window to the right to shove it off the Laptop screen and onto the TV screen.  I left it kind of half and half so I could read the text in the left pane of the window on the Laptop, but view the earth images on the TV.  NICE!

I closed Google Earth and then ran Internet explorer and accessed the Roanoke railcam, which automatically opens Windows Media player to show the camera.  While it was setting up, I drug that window to the TV screen and clicked the "full screen" arrow at the bottom right and it expanded to fill the TV screen.

I can now watch Roanoke on the TV while I am surfing the web or looking for roundhouses on Google Earth or writing Visual Basic programs or playing solitaire on the Laptop PC screen.

Google earth seems to be a wee bit slower while the railcam is running, but not too bad.  BTW: I am also running Excel to have the roundhouse list on screen, and I have IE open to monitor my e-mail account, and I am typing this in the reply box to post here.

Just saw the red caboose on the point of what appears to be a line of empty coal hoppers being shoved west on track 3... longest train I think I have seen the caboose on... there are the 2 engines doing the work.

This is nice! Cool

Now all I need is another TV so I can watch PBS at the same time! Geeked 

 

 

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, September 23, 2011 9:27 AM

....Tuned into the cam last evening and was rewarded with a "green screen" only.  But note, it's up and running this morning.  Raining in Roanoke this morning.  No trains at the time {few seconds}, I checked this morning.

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:45 PM

I am thinking like you . It is painted on the lens .    RON

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:21 PM

I haven't been able to look for some time.  I looked just now (tail end of an empty unit coal west bound) and I see that pickup  truck still backed into the parking spot.  Has it moved and come back or is it maybe painted on the camera lens? Big Smile

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Posted by j610 on Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:01 PM

MOW is working on that section of track where the autoracks derailed again .     RON

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Posted by j610 on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:41 PM

All in all , a pleasant hospital stay . I did notice the truck is still there .    RON

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:54 AM

Well... I hope you enjoyed your stay in the hospital... Too many people find it not enjoyable and are just dying to get out of there.

I am glad you survived it and are back to watch the railcam again.

I, too, have noticed a great reduction in traffic in Roanoke.  Seems the parking lot in the foreground has fewer cars too.

I wonder if you notied the white pickup truck (with the low topper) is still backed into the stall near the west end.  Seems to me that has been there for near two months now.

 

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Posted by j610 on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:18 AM

Been in the hospital for a while . Just got back on line and there doesn't seem to be near as much traffic in roanoke as usual .            RON

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Posted by j610 on Friday, August 12, 2011 9:55 PM

Thanks .   RON

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Posted by Norm48327 on Friday, August 12, 2011 3:42 PM

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If the link doesn't work, cut and past it into your browser.

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Posted by j610 on Friday, August 12, 2011 3:28 PM

Do you have the web address for the salt lake city cam ?   RON

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Friday, August 12, 2011 12:06 PM

Took a good 5 minutes for the train to show up and he didn't blow for the crossing.  BUT, it had a nice caboose on the end!  Unfortunately I didn't have my snipping tool active and i missed getting an image.

Ooo wait wait... he is backing into view again. 

 

Rats. I'm too slow.  I will watch for that one again!

Coal trian on the Fostoria cam.

 

 

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