cp9300Just saw a UP 3 units with 28 reefer cars. What train and how often does it run?
Might have been the "Salad Shooter," but I think that usually has more cars. No idea what the local train designator would be.
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Re "rockin' and rollin'": Just saw a UP eastbound intermodal on the near track, running pretty fast, and the trailers and containers were rocking a lot. So if it's a problem, it hasn't been solved.
Wednesday (I was actually on a Amtrak NER train No. 86 from Washington, DC to Route 128 [near Boston] yesterday, and didn't try to test Amtrak Connect wireless with the Trains webcam) I saw a UP train coming from the NW actually stop and wait for a BNSF train coming from the SW. I could see the lights of the UP through the trees. Didn't know they stopped so close.
/Mr Lynn
I saw the same thing. I was concerned enough that I started recording the video on my PC to capture the accident if that train didn't get stopped... There was nothing I could do to prevent it, so maybe a video record of it would help investigators.
But I think you have your directions rotated 90°... the camera faces west so the UP line runs SW -- NE and the BNSF line runs SE -- NW... so the UP train was approaching from the SW and the BNSF train was traveling from SE to NW.
Semper Vaporo
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Semper Vaporo I saw the same thing. I was concerned enough that I started recording the video on my PC to capture the accident if that train didn't get stopped... There was nothing I could do to prevent it, so maybe a video record of it would help investigators. But I think you have your directions rotated 90°... the camera faces west so the UP line runs SW -- NE and the BNSF line runs SE -- NW... so the UP train was approaching from the SW and the BNSF train was traveling from SE to NW.
I guess you're right. I was assuming that I was looking north, so Clinton would be NW. I should look at a map! Anyway, the UP that was waiting was headed toward Proviso, and the BNSF was heading toward Savanna.
I just came back after being away for a couple of hours, and there were a couple of guys welding. They scampered off for a UP intermodal (with five locos), which came through with no apparent rocking. Now they are back with what sounds like a drill or saw, but they are also welding. Wish we could do a close-up with the cam.
Looks like those diamonds need constant attention! You have to wonder if it would be worth the very large expense of building a flyover.
Dennis, how long has it been since you've been there? I believe that road has been closed off for at least a year. It was a handy way to get to the park from the west; I don't know much about alternatives.It looks like the home signals on the UP side are much closer to the diamonds than those on BNSF. You can see both UP signal bridges in the webcam. The BNSF's westbound signals are between Ninth Street and the range of the webcam, but the eastbound signals are somewhere around the curve.
Carl
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CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Looking at Google Earth, it seems that State 38 (Lincoln Highway) still has a crossing there, but straight through connection to 1st Ave is broken so to come in on that highway one must make a 2 blocks south detour to get to 1st Ave again. But the crossing is still there and it is about 800 ft from the diamonds.
About the same distance to the 1st street crossing to the east.
U.P.s signal bridge (on the right side of the camera view) is 260 ft from the diamonds and the other one (about the center of the camera view) is about 175 ft from the diamonds.
BNSF's signal bridges are put of the cameras view... the east one is about 520 ft from the diamonds and the west one is around the curve about 870 ft away.
EDIT: additionally, the U.P. signal bridge on the west side of the diamonds might not be visible to the engineer until the engine is across the Lincoln Highway grade crossing because of the trees that line the ROW on the south side (inside of the curve).
Just watched one of the locals almost buy the farm... He was walking from south to north, and entered the BNSF ROW near the switch for the industrial track. A westbound UP hopper train had just started across the diamonds on the south track, and the gentleman waited for it to clear at the point where the grass ends. As the rear DPU cleared, he started to walk toward the UP ROW.
From the camera vantage point, the viewers could see and hear an eastbound UP soda ash train approaching on the north track. I immediately realized the gentleman would not be able to see or hear the eastbound, which cleared the DPU of the westbound just a few feet west of the diamonds.
He was almost to the edge of the ties of the south track when he looked up and saw the eastbound. He quickly retreated to the park - but I'll bet that the grass will be just a little greener next summer at the spot where he was standing.
i saw that also and a while i saw a cat wierd hey?
El Gato (or perhaps Los Gatos) is a regular visitor - I see him about once a week.
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Welders appear to be back working on the diamond - after the normal 3 PM quitting time.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
The welders were still there at 6pm working by flood light.
Today I saw something I hadn't seen before. Two Eastbound trains on the UP at the same time. The slower one, a container unit train, on the near track being passed buy a faster one on the far track.
Jim in Costa Rica
Modeling freelance Northern California late 1930s
There are three guys right now (c. 4:30 EST) banging on something in the near (to camera) corner of the diamonds. They had to sit and wait while a couple of BNSFs went through. Uh-oh, UP coming through right where they were working. I guess whatever they were doing didn't affect passage.
JimInCR Today I saw something I hadn't seen before. Two Eastbound trains on the UP at the same time. The slower one, a container unit train, on the near track being passed buy a faster one on the far track.
The container train was just getting under way from Global III just west of town - eastbound G3 departures have to use the south track through Rochelle and 3-4 mile further east before they can cross over to the north track. Depending on the priority of the container train (or its delivery time slot in Chicago), he may have fallen in behind the eastbound, or passed him a crossover or two further east.
gp18I wouldn't put it past Union slugs to perpetuate an O.T. job.
I have issues with unions sometimes, too, but that was unnecessary. 'Nuf said.
Thinking that maybe the fine folk that know about the camera workings, might have subscribed to this thread and thus have not seen that another thread was started about the camera being unusable for some people (me included). All we see is a gray rectangle instead of the picture. But it apparently works for some people.
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/242897.aspx
Just watched a BNSF tank with dpu fly eastbound. i'm using Safari for windows. Up till yesterday, my explorer worked fine.
Spinning Nut Just watched a BNSF tank with dpu fly eastbound. i'm using Safari for windows. Up till yesterday, my explorer worked fine.
Nothing happening right now but I watched an eastbound UP manifest go through a while ago (I should say I saw the last of it --- missed the head end).
IE 11 seems to be working just fine on a Win 7 laptop and a Win 8 desktop here. Sounds to me like you installed some software that "doesn't play nice with others".
I'll stop now before I get on my Toy Computers soap box (I'm an old Big Iron mainframe guy).
Edited to add:
BNSF just sneaked a westbound oil train through (sneaked = again I looked away and missed the power).
IE 11 performing just fine.
ChuckAllen, TX
Yeah, I started on an IBM 1401 and gratudated to a IBM360 before going to a VAX... and then things started to get smaller... HP-2100, HP21-MX and HP-1000, then a SWTP 6800 and it has just gotten worse after the Atari 400! hee hee hee... but Windors 7 is fine and the Win-10 technical preview release is not too bad... so far.
EDIT... I forgot to add the Univac SS-90 that I had in my garage!
As for the present problem... If you go read the "other" thread you will see that we are all now able to view the camera again. I regularly clear cookies and all that other stuff that often clogs up the system and it did no good this time, so I am figuring somebody changed something at the camera end (or inbetween) and have either "Fixed" it or reverted back to a previous version.
Semper Vaporo... so I am figuring somebody changed something at the camera end (or inbetween) and have either "Fixed" it or reverted back to a previous version.
Clearly a "but it's only one line of code" moment. I've been over the wall for eleven years now, and I still get shivers when I think about hearing that line.
Don't even get me started on the mainframe and mini- and micro computers (TI-99, anyone?) I've worked on, not to mention programing languages, routers large and small, switches, hubs, firewalls, and websites.
But, yes, all it takes is one "bad" line of code...
I didn't even know Apple offered Safari for Windows, though now I see that they did for Safari 5, but not Safari 6 (yet?). I'm using Safari 6 on both my Macs, and the cam works fine. Haven't tried it on any PeeCees yet.
Still wish there were lights around the diamonds. If I lived in Rochelle, I'd volunteer to help maintain them.
Sunday, 5 PM Eastern: Just tuned in and caught a few folks talking to a friend on the phone and waving at the camera. Nice weather, "Shoulda had a cookout," said one. "No trains, though." Sounded like Canadians to me.
What happened to the black thing, whatever it was, that was behind the benches?
I think that "black thing" is the remnants of a 2-wheel dolly (a "relic" of baggage handling). It gets moved every once and a while. It has probably been moved out of view behind one of the stone walls.
'Black Thing', was a luggage carrier, my first summer job was tossing rags into a compress, and packing them into a bail, then used one just like it to move the bails around, bails weighted two or three hundred pounds each. Then once a month, we would load them into a tractor trailor and shipped them out.
They had Katy Freight access but didn't use it them. busniness behind us did and used it. had a couple box cars backed up to the dock at all times. The place shook when the railroad came and swapped them out. I was always at the wrong place and time when they did.
that was summer of 1967, muskogee ok.
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