Hard to say who's doing better right now. BNSF just followed up with an impressive WB with containers and many trailers. YRC/Roadway, JB Hunt and UPS. At 1701 CDT.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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Now that's the way to make a living. Big EB UP container and trailer train from the west coast with 3 units up front and one in the middle at 1651 CDT.
The spider was busy again....
writesongI haven't yet figured out how to actually post a photograph in this forum.
Directly - you can't. You have to post it in a application that supports user created photos and then post the link to that location here.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I just now snapped this photograph of two Union Pacific intermodal freight trains passing each other in Rochelle, Illinois.
When watching the live streaming video from the web camera, I just hit the "PrtScn" button on my keyboard, then I opened my "Paint" program, hit the clipboard icon, and there it was.
I saved it as a "JPEG" file, uploaded it to my "Flickr" account, put it in my "Railroad Trains" album, and here's the URL for the photograph":
https://www.flickr.com/photos/writesong/34341389301/in/album-72157680132874375/lightbox/
NS "Nickel Plate Road" heritage unit was second of three on a WB BNSF mixed consisit train that cleared the diamonds at 1628 CDT. I believe seeing that unit is personal first for me.
Seeing all the posts about screen capture difficulties induced me to experiment. Per modern day web 'design' practice the EarthCam folks put icons without help balloons along the window bottom. Clicking the middle 'camera' icon results in a new 'Share' browser window popping up about fifteen seconds (!) later; this delay is due probably to the use of 'new window' rather than 'new tab' prehistoric browser (IE6) compatibility mode.
At the very far right of this 'email' dialog is a green down arrow icon - click it and you get a normal 'Open / Save' dialog that lets you save to file or view in the image editing program of choice.
FYI I'm using Firefox on Linux Mint - if it works here it should work anywhere! Double FYI, be sure you have an up-to-date version of Adobe Flash installed.
Links to my Google Maps ---> Sunset Route overview, SoCal metro, Yuma sub, Gila sub, SR east of Tucson, BNSF Northern Transcon and Southern Transcon *** Why you should support Ukraine! ***
I sort of like those used car lot penants. On days when the wind is not enough to move tree branches, they still move, thus assuring you that the picture hasn't frozen.
Besides they may scare the birds away from the seeds long enough so that young vegetable plants get started in order that they may be eaten by the rabbits!
Now that that problem is solved, I've got a question. Why does the Rochelle webcam appear twice on the "webcams" page?
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BtrainBobworking for me. 11:00cst
Thanks.
was down - but now working for me. 11:00cst
AgentKid rdamon Did someone kick the power-switch again? And they still haven't noticed! Bruce
rdamon Did someone kick the power-switch again?
And they still haven't noticed!
I suspect it won't be fixed until sometime on Monday since it's the start of the weekend
Semper Vaporo AgentKid rdamon Did someone kick the power-switch again? And they still haven't noticed! Bruce But now if you are using IE-11 you can click on the full-screen icon in the lower right corner to make it go to full screen to show you the rotating daisy and "Loading EarthCam Stream"... (but double-clicking the screen no longer reverts it to the window view). Ain't cornphewtors wunnerful?
But now if you are using IE-11 you can click on the full-screen icon in the lower right corner to make it go to full screen to show you the rotating daisy and "Loading EarthCam Stream"... (but double-clicking the screen no longer reverts it to the window view).
Ain't cornphewtors wunnerful?
ChuckAllen, TX
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
rdamonDid someone kick the power-switch again?
Did someone kick the power-switch again?
just caught a Special on the BNSF EB crossing the diamonds at 12.01 0428
https://www.flickr.com/photos/15158681@N00/33513742663/in/dateposted-public/
The NMRA midwest regional has a picnic here today should be able to catch it on the webcam.
MKT Dave Visitor Center has move up where we can see the lower light on the right of the screen.
Visitor Center has move up where we can see the lower light on the right of the screen.
I'd still like to see it moved up a little more so we can see all of that signal and to the right so we can see the signal for track 1.
Strange happenings just now on the webcam- two UP trains, one EB and one WB, both stopped on the diamond. The engines on the WB had just barely made it across; now they're moving again. EB still stopped.
EDIT: EB now moving again as well. WB was a short local. I wonder if the signals for both dropped out on them as they approached the diamond? The EB was moving pretty fast as it started to cross, but it sure stopped in a hurry.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Semper Vaporo Where did you store the image?
Where did you store the image?
I didn't. That's the basic problem. I was hoping to get away with just copying and pasting as I can with some other blog managers. Didn't work.
Semper Vaporo:
Just tried your PrtScr, paste to Paint, edit, copy, paste to post method and it worked perfectly (of course). The image below is the result. I didn't really know what I was grabbing; I was doing something else, heard a Diesel approaching, double clicked the web cam window, and punched the PrtScr key. Even so, it looks like I got something that's a bit rare these days; a single unit hauling containers -- must be a transfer move to Global III. Wish I had gotten the 5 units on a WB BNSF stack train a few minutes before.
Interestingly enough, Preview Post shows an empty post! I could understand it not including the image but there's no text either.
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So much for "worked perfectly". The image simply disappeared.
USCGR Tom I wonder if someone that cleaned/wiped spider webs away from the lens may have shifted the camera angle down some. Maybe it can be pushed upward back to the previous angle. Tom Allen, VA
I wonder if someone that cleaned/wiped spider webs away from the lens may have shifted the camera angle down some. Maybe it can be pushed upward back to the previous angle.
Tom Allen, VA
That's very likely what happened. But I see that our resident spider is busily providing another opportunity to readjust the wed cam's aim.
Nope, they're always lit. I suspect UP (or Homeland Security) doesn't want us to see the signals.
Agree the view has moved. I would also like to get a view of the UP signals. I have raised this issue with the people who manage the camera and they are reluctant to reduce the view of the BNSF facilities, but how about a change for just a month say and then restore to the current view. I have noticed the red light out while a BNSF train was crossing the diamond. The only explanation I have for that is approach lighting for the UP signals.
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