Semper VaporoI just ACCIDENTALLY got a FULL SCREEN display using IE-11!!!!! Forget the icon in the corner... DOUBLE-CLICK the video itself! Double-click it again to return to the original view. hee hee hee happy accidents!
What he said. Everything good to go here.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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CShaveRRConcrete ties for a set of diamonds such as this would be a custom-molding job, and each tie along the tracks would be different as the routs were getting further apart. Better to have wooden ties where one tie length could be adzed and drilled (for plates and spikes or bolts) as needed along its length. Less cusom work to do.
I don't get out a lot to see for myself, but I'm not sure I ever recall seeing even a switch having anything but wood ties. Concrete just doesn't make sense for a switch because not only are the anchors custom, the profile of the tie is custom and any advantage of quantity production would be completely wiped out.
STOMP THE PRESSES! Errr... I mean STOP the presses...
I just ACCIDENTALLY got a FULL SCREEN display using IE-11!!!!!
Forget the icon in the corner... DOUBLE-CLICK the video itself! Double-click it again to return to the original view.
hee hee hee happy accidents!
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
On a rest break from prepping my house for the window installers tomorrow.
Bingo... EarthCam works here, now, too.
cefinkjr Working here, too. Still no full screen though.
Working here, too. Still no full screen though.
What he said.
ChuckAllen, TX
Working for me.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
The cam just came back for me
Webcam still dead this morning... just the blue and white daisy pettles rotating to infinity.
OldtrainwatcherIt looks like the new crossovers will have wooden ties. Would concrete ties be unsuitable for a heavy-use situation such as this or is there another reason for staying with the older method?
Concrete ties for a set of diamonds such as this would be a custom-molding job, and each tie along the tracks would be different as the routs were getting further apart. Better to have wooden ties where one tie length could be adzed and drilled (for plates and spikes or bolts) as needed along its length. Less cusom work to do.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Yup, My display states "Your connection may be insufficient or the camera may be temporarily unavailable.
Earthcam.
AgentKid No joy in the Great White North either. Bruce
No joy in the Great White North either.
No joy in the Too Sunny South either. But, putting an optimistic face on it, maybe the webcam system is down for some maintenance (that's a free translation of "fixing our mistakes") and, when it comes back, we'll have the same full screen capability we had before. One can hope.
Nor on Safari...getting a "trouble slide" indicating camera probably down. The Wrigley Field webcam is working, so it doesn't appear to be an Earthlink problem.
Using the "trouble slide" reference brings back memories of working for a UHF station in town here nearly 50 years ago. Once in a while, we would trip off the air for a little bit and, as expected, we'd get calls from some of our viewers. Always, when we would explain that our transmitter was down, someone would ask why we didin't put up a slide to explain that. I never tried to explain why not, as it would have been an exercise in futility.
These days, futility seems to be about the only exercise I get, along with jogging my memory.
camera not working today on firefox,crome or explororer
The cam is not working for me
Looks like on one side they have a straight piece of rail and on the other it is bent. My guess is that both pieces are similar, since this is "built to fit" it is shorter due to the angle.
The angles of the photos and the angles of the ties under the tracks is quite confusing to me. I am not so sure of my own question now!
I still think that a line drawn across the track from the tip of one guard rail to the other (on the same track, either BNSF or UP) would not be perpendicular to the track rails. But due to the odd angles it is hard to tell. Maybe I am all wet! (It IS raining here.)
It looks like the new crossovers will have wooden ties. Would concrete ties be unsuitable for a heavy-use situation such as this or is there another reason for staying with the older method?
Semper Vaporo Paul of Covington Semper Vaporo Technical question: Why is the guard rail (or flange trap or anti-derail, whatever you want to call it) longer on one side than the other? If you draw a line across from the tip of the guard rail on the UP rail to the tip of the other guard rail and then extend it to the BNSF track it seems it would be a straight line across the tips of all 4 guard rails. Why are they not the same length from the frog to the tip of the guard rails on both side of each track? Just guessing, but I think they wanted the left and right wheels to reach the guard rails at the same time. Why? I don't know. That is just it... they WON'T reach them at the same time. Maybe that is the reason.
Paul of Covington Semper Vaporo Technical question: Why is the guard rail (or flange trap or anti-derail, whatever you want to call it) longer on one side than the other? If you draw a line across from the tip of the guard rail on the UP rail to the tip of the other guard rail and then extend it to the BNSF track it seems it would be a straight line across the tips of all 4 guard rails. Why are they not the same length from the frog to the tip of the guard rails on both side of each track? Just guessing, but I think they wanted the left and right wheels to reach the guard rails at the same time. Why? I don't know.
Semper Vaporo Technical question: Why is the guard rail (or flange trap or anti-derail, whatever you want to call it) longer on one side than the other? If you draw a line across from the tip of the guard rail on the UP rail to the tip of the other guard rail and then extend it to the BNSF track it seems it would be a straight line across the tips of all 4 guard rails. Why are they not the same length from the frog to the tip of the guard rails on both side of each track?
Technical question: Why is the guard rail (or flange trap or anti-derail, whatever you want to call it) longer on one side than the other? If you draw a line across from the tip of the guard rail on the UP rail to the tip of the other guard rail and then extend it to the BNSF track it seems it would be a straight line across the tips of all 4 guard rails. Why are they not the same length from the frog to the tip of the guard rails on both side of each track?
Just guessing, but I think they wanted the left and right wheels to reach the guard rails at the same time. Why? I don't know.
That is just it... they WON'T reach them at the same time. Maybe that is the reason.
Maybe I don't understand your question. Since the crossings are not 90º, if the guard rails (guide rails) were the same length from the frogs, the wheels would not hit them at the same time. If you draw a line across the tips of the nearest rails (blue), it would be parallel to the ties under the left (white) ones. The ties under the nearest ones are not 90º to the rails.
(Edit) I re-read your question and realized you are comparing UP track to the BNSF one, and in the nearest ends they are different from one road to the other, so we may not be talking the same language. I was comparing BNSF to BNSF.
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Paul of CovingtonI think they wanted the left and right wheels to reach the guard rails at the same time. Why?
Think of them as GUIDE rails to guide the flanges into the gap between the rail being crossed.
rdamon The same photographer who captured the image of the new diamond captured the replacement on 11/20/2010. There are several photos. https://flic.kr/p/8TpgGZ My guess is the red, white and blue markings are for alignment (BNSF vs. UP).
The same photographer who captured the image of the new diamond captured the replacement on 11/20/2010. There are several photos.
https://flic.kr/p/8TpgGZ
My guess is the red, white and blue markings are for alignment (BNSF vs. UP).
Thanks, rdamon. About 6½ year life.
And it looks like the rectangular frog blocks I asked about were in the previous diamonds, so at least it's apparently not something new.
Here is how I normally view the webcam... a standard window, shrunk to fit between what I am working on and the right edge of my screen. Note the time/date in the upper right corner... that is a program I wrote to make it big enough to see and it also handles "Alarms" I set to alert me to birthdays/anniversaries and appointments, bills to be paid, trash day, etc. etc. I WROTE IT! I have it set to claim 'Always-On-Top' status every second so that other windows will never obscure it... remember that!
This image was made a couple of seconds later after I set the browser window to Maximized. Note that my clock/date program has inserted itself "in front" of the browser window.
This image is a "Full Screen" view a few seconds later. BUT... MY PROGRAM is no longer able to claim "Always-on-top" status. That means that Microsoft has created yet another "ME FIRST" view that I don't know about. My program used to be able to reclaim "On Top" status when viewing streaming video in Full Screen mode, but now it doesn't!
I don't mean the standard Windows "Maximized" view, but taking over the whole screen... no borders.
"Maximized" works in IE-11, but the image remains a smaller subwindow in the web page with the black borders at the top and bottom with the mileage to the 4 cities that the tracks head to. You can also scroll the window up and down to view the other info on the page. It also has the local temperature in the lower left, the "camera" icon in the middle and the "Full Screen" icon in the lower right.
"Maximized" is accessed by the drop down menu obtained by right-clicking the program icon in the upper left of the brower window, or double-clicking the browser title bar, or clicking the box icon 2nd from the right in the right of the browser title bar.
"Full Screen" is not scrollable and does not show the black boarder nor the narrow bottom border with the local temperature in the lower left, the "camera" icon in the middle and the "box in the lower right" (for accessing "Full Screen", when it works!).
"Full Screen" is only accessed by the icon in the lower right of the video area.
Semper Vaporo I just tried it and got a black screen for about 1 minute; I was about to refresh the page when it finally came on... then Full Screen works for me in Edge. Somebody may be working on it. Maybe trying to fix the IE-11 problem. EDIT: Just tried IE-11 and it won't go to full screen.
I just tried it and got a black screen for about 1 minute; I was about to refresh the page when it finally came on... then Full Screen works for me in Edge.
Somebody may be working on it. Maybe trying to fix the IE-11 problem.
EDIT: Just tried IE-11 and it won't go to full screen.
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