Seems like the diamonds were replaced in the not-too-distant past (a couple three years, give or take).
I'm guessing they are due again...
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Just watched a one-unit-wonder stacker go through east-bound on the far UP track (Main 1?). Given the main he was on, I doubt he originated out of Global III.
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just logged in the first time today, cam down, thought there would be an explanation.
There should be some lights showing, Dave, but I don't see anything at all. Must be down. With 61 degrees and clear, you might be able to see passing trains by moonlight (I think it's just past full) but there being no lights at all tells me we aren't getting anything from the camera.
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Usually I can tell it's running because I see a little 'loading HD stream' graphic with animated boxes. I don't see that now, so I concur either the camera or the streaming service from it is down. I suspect it's diagnostic in some way that we have the black rectangle frame, but no streaming video to display in it.
Wizlish Usually I can tell it's running because I see a little 'loading HD stream' graphic with animated boxes. I don't see that now, so I concur either the camera or the streaming service from it is down. I suspect it's diagnostic in some way that we have the black rectangle frame, but no streaming video to display in it.
I spend a lot of time watching it while working overnight, no sound.... i can't get enough of the horns.
oh no ...withdrawl
Looks to be down completely this morning...oh well...
eolafan Looks to be down completely this morning...oh well...
Was back up up this afternoon. First popped and saw an EB UP stacker, then at about 6:30 CDT checked again and watched an EB UP coal drag come in as EFA (everybody's favorite arachnid) scooted around in the frame.
Is it my imagination or are colors sharper than they were before the recent outage? Was the camera replaced or did our Resident Arachnid start paying rent by cleaning the lens?
cefinkjr Is it my imagination or are colors sharper than they were before the recent outage? Was the camera replaced or did our Resident Arachnid start paying rent by cleaning the lens?
I suspect it is your imagination - Spring has sprung at Rochelle and what was indistinct brown and gray has become green. Arachnid not withstanding.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACD cefinkjr Is it my imagination or are colors sharper than they were before the recent outage? Was the camera replaced or did our Resident Arachnid start paying rent by cleaning the lens? I suspect it is your imagination - Spring has sprung at Rochelle and what was indistinct brown and gray has become green. Arachnid not withstanding.
You're probably right. Then too there's this HD monitor I'm still getting accustomed to. Most things look brighter and clearer. My wallpaper is a slide show of favorite locomotives; one of the photos is of a GG1 in Tuscan Red with the gold "cat's whiskers" and it looks fabulous. This monitor even makes my poor photography look good.
The equipment is the same. The fix was made via computer.
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Brian Schmidt The equipment is the same. The fix was made via computer.
Which any retired software guy should have assumed.
Pardon me while I wipe the egg off my face.
Now if they could just turn off the auto-focus...
Personally, I see no improvement in clarity. The image compression technique used produces a "muddy" (blurry) image. It always looks like the lens has a very thin film of water on it. I realize the compression reduces the bandwidth required and that a lot of viewers can really chew up the bandwidth, but I'd like less compression to give a clearer image.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Semper Vaporo It always looks like the lens has a very thin film of water on it.
It always looks like the lens has a very thin film of water on it.
Actually most of the time it has a thin film of oil from the diesel exhaust on it. Last fall I was watching and a CN unit came east on a BNSF train, belching smoke. As it passed you could actually see oil drops on the lens running down. And this was on a sunny day so it sure wasn't raindrops.
Earlier today I saw a Herzog ballast car train heading back and forth on the BNSF line, and a few minutes ago there was a WB loaded CWR train. After all these years of watching trains there is still a small part of my mind that can't figure out how CWR trains can go around curves, and how the top boxes stay on double stack cars!
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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AgentKid After all these years of watching trains there is still a small part of my mind that can't figure out how CWR trains can go around curves, and how the top boxes stay on double stack cars! Bruce
I think that might be explained by what an old railroader told me years ago. I was marveling that equipment passed over a particularly rough piece of track --- pumping joints, worn-out rail, missing joint bolts, etc. --- without derailing and this old railroader told me, "It's a law, son; the law of gravity."
AgentKid Earlier today I saw a Herzog ballast car train heading back and forth on the BNSF line, and a few minutes ago there was a WB loaded CWR train. After all these years of watching trains there is still a small part of my mind that can't figure out how CWR trains can go around curves, and how the top boxes stay on double stack cars! Bruce
When it comes to moving welded rail, it has the flexibility of spaghetti to lateral moves as the train moves around curves - after all the rail the rail train is operating on has already been laid with the same degree of curvature and spiked in place to keep it from shifting to another alignment.
Top Containers stay connected to bottom containers because of these little devices that are used at the designated locking points.
the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle
rdettmer the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle
So what happens if the Big E pulls a knuckle or a drawbar along his/her merry way?
CatFoodFlambe rdettmer the rail on the rail train is not moving to much because its bolted down in the middle So what happens if the Big E pulls a knuckle or a drawbar along his/her merry way?
Is the 'Salad Shooter', all refers? 1249pm 0510, WB UP, went through at speed.
MKT Dave Is the 'Salad Shooter', all reefers?
Is the 'Salad Shooter', all reefers?
Pretty sure it is.
A crew this morning seems to be attending to the switch off the main that allows the BNSF to serve the Del Monte plant to the west. It has been a long time since I have seen any BNSF action on that switch lead - back in the day the BN and C&NW used to alternate for which railroad served the plant. Is there a chance the old BN switch is being removed?
Dave Nelson
I was watching the feed about 30 minutes ago. A BNSF engine and three cars just backed down the DelMonte lead.
northwesterner I was watching the feed about 30 minutes ago. A BNSF engine and three cars just backed down the DelMonte lead.
A BNSF local, often running long-hood forward (a GP40? sounds like an old, two-cylinder John Deere tractor), uses that switch late morning every day I've been on at that time.
Looks like the crew there has installed a new telephone pole at the switch. They were digging with a back hoe, and now have moved the tractor up by the tree.
Here comes a covered-hopper train eastbound on the BNSF near track, led by two Norfolk-Southern locomotives. . . Now gone. Everybody hunkered down till the train passed.
Have to check back later. What's with the pole?
/Mr Lynn
Maybe they are going to power the switch?
It looks like the UP installed a new aluminum signal bridge just beyond the existing black signal bridge on the far side of the crossing. The camera does not include the same area on this side of the crossing, so can not see if there is similar work going on. It looks like the days of the CNW steel signal bridges may be numbered.
dknelson A crew this morning seems to be attending to the switch off the main that allows the BNSF to serve the Del Monte plant to the west. It has been a long time since I have seen any BNSF action on that switch lead - back in the day the BN and C&NW used to alternate for which railroad served the plant. Is there a chance the old BN switch is being removed? Dave Nelson
the siding is used every workday, most of the time a GP38 with a number of various cars. One time saw a number of center line cars come out full of skids. (pallets). I've also caught them a various times, but the 11am to 12am seems to be the usuall time for it. Mon morning the switcher backed down it about 9am.
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