Where would you like to see a RailCam?

[Masked Marvel]

I'd like to see a webcam in downtown Pacific Missouri where the Union Pacific and BNSF meet and run side by side.  Amtrak goes through town four times a day on the Union Pacific line also.  

[tree68]

NKP guy

   I'd suggest a cam at Sunnyside Yard on Long Island; I think it would be interesting to watch trains being made up and taken apart.  Or perhaps one in New Haven, where several different railroads have equipment passing through.

A camera in New Mexico (?) ran into problems because the employees objected to having people watch them work.  Much different than simply watching trains go by.

   

NKP guy

Watching caboose-less trains full of containers pass by isn't nearly as entertaining to me as it used to be.

This is why I like the Deshler cams - with trains not only running across the diamond in all directions, but also "turning the corners," there is a great variety there.  

And even if there's no trains, the chat that runs alongside the cam screen can be entertaining, especially when someone who doesn't understand railfanning wonders why the cams exist in the first place.  

There are a number of knowledgeable folks who know the train symbols and understand railroad operations who will gladly explain it all the uninitiated.

 

 

[NKP guy]

   I'd suggest a cam at Sunnyside Yard on Long Island; I think it would be interesting to watch trains being made up and taken apart.  Or perhaps one in New Haven, where several different railroads have equipment passing through.

   Watching caboose-less trains full of containers pass by isn't nearly as entertaining to me as it used to be.

[BLS53]

At this point in time, it's probably better to make requests through the various YouTube channels. Lots more railfans and viewers there. These forums really aren't that active in the overall scheme of things.

[rdamon]

Mounted in the nose of a locomotive or two ..  :)

[Electroliner 1935]

Western Ave A2 plant Chicago and Chicago Union Station throat near 18th St

[BaltACD]

K Tower - Washington Union Station

[D.Carleton]

23rd Street, Chattanooga, TN.

[MikeF90]

My new favorite webcam site just came on line - the Tehachapi, CA depot museum now hosts a 24x7 camera adjacent to a universal crossover and a grade crossing.

https://youtu.be/DLoJczNXhjc

A very busy location!

[Benchedthatpiece]

Pine Junction, Indiana where they get an incredible number of trains.

Closer to home would be Greensboro, NC on the Norfolk Southern mainline. A lot of good trains pass through there...

[Soo 6604]

Duplainville

[tree68]

In addition to the two cams Trains supports, Virtual Railfan has a bunch of cams around the country.  I've got Deshler running on another window right now.

[blue streak 1]

howell interlocking in Atlanta.  Then we could watch the Crescent delays .

[zardoz]

Welcome back folks, to station WFRN. Today we'll be playing a selection of some golden oldies.

Mr. Peabody, set the Wayback machine to 17 years ago....

[Mickhall]

I'd love to see a streaming rail cam there. I heard it might just happen.

 

[Andrew Falconer]

Norfolk Southern railyard in Mishawaka, Indiana

CN/GTW railyard in Battle Creek, Michigan

[traisessive1]

Anonymous

Either Toronto, Ontario Canada or Calgary, Alberta in Canada to get max coverage of CP/CN/VIA. It seems there is so little coverage of the Canadian roads, this would be great.

 

 

The only place, in my opinion, that a camera is worthwhile for freight action in Canada is at Portage la Prairie where the CN and CP main lines cross. There is no other place in Canada that really has that volume of freight in one spot. 

[ZACK BOVITZ]

There are already 2 there

[Bob-Fryml]

How about four webcams one located on each corner of the "diamonds" that lie above the intersection of Wells & Lake Streets in downtown Chicago.  Among the Lake-Englewood, Lake-Jackson Park, Ravenswood, Midway, and Evanston Express trains, there's a lot of action at that interlocking.

Another great location would be on that high round-mound that sits between main tracks nos. 2 and 3 just a short ways east of Dale Junction, Wyoming (UPRR Laramie Subdivision).

Downtown Laramie, Wyo. on the pedestrian bridge.

Or, here's a novel idea:  strategically place a web cam along a broad muli-track curve somewhere on the layout located inside The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. 

[Mr. Railman]

Get one at anaheind station on Metras MDW line. They have too small a ump yard so that means trains being built are done like this:

1. consist pulls out of siding

2. switch is made so consist A backs up into Consist B

3. combine two consists

Repeat

 

I always see old geeps and SDs pulling aa far as quarter mile out and then go back into the yard.

[gebass6]

Along with Dolton Jct.,Rondout Jct and also Brighton Park Jct.Both in Illinois.

[traisessive1]

 

http://www.railcam.nl

It's in the Netherlands. Didn't see it posted on this thread. This cam comes complete with streaming video and audio, it visible 24/7 and has extremely heavy traffic volumes.

Freight trains are very short comapred to our standards, about a max of 45 cars and there are a lot of small commuter movements. I have noticed that during the night on weekdays freight traffic is heavier than during the day, but overnight on the weekends there seems to be no traffic at all.

If you don't mind the length of trains, and horns not being blown over crossings, then you could sit here and watch the 100+ trains for hours and never get bored because as soon as one goes by, another ones a comin'.

[Anonymous]

I vote for Dayton's Bluff area - St. Paul:

BNSF

UP

CP/SOO

TCW

ICE

MNNR (only saw them once there, personally - I think they're a very rare visitor)

AMTK

[TimChgo9]

....and Turner Junction.

Franklin Park,

Bryn Mawr (along O'Hare airport, UP/CP shared trackage.

DeVal crossing in DesPlaines.

Outside of Union Station (For you passenger train fans)

Homewood.

Rondout

 

Actually....(of course I am dreaming here) but, it would be cool if there was a whole network of Chicago area webcams.  There is so much action in this area, that on any given camera, something would be happening.  One could watch trains all over the Chicago area, from the comfort of their living room.......  Wow, what a concept.    Gee, I wonder how much money it would take to maintain all of the cameras..... Hey, it could even be a subscription based thing, so it would be easier to pay for the maintenance of the cameras, and servers, and routers, and computers, and bandwidth.......   A couple of the cameras could be shown for "free", and a  subscription based on either yearly or monthly payments, and a couple of the cameras could be, you know, like "pan and zoom" and in each location, have a camera facing each direction, so the viewer can see all of the action.  The cameras could be a higher quality than is the norm for better pictures.  Oh, and even feed audio from the AAR channel for that particular railroad, or subdivision, and kind of make it like, an entire "experience".... 

Any investors interested????

(See ,this is what happens to me after 3 cups of coffee...)

[Los Angeles Rams Guy]

Oh, one other location:  Missouri Valley, Iowa where the UP's mainline splits - the old CNW passenger line down to Council Bluffs and Omaha and the Fremont cutoff going west along with the CN's Iowa Division mainline that parallels the passenger line down to Council Bluffs.  Awesome! 

[TimChgo9]

I could think of a few places right off the top of my head, right here around Chicago.

1. West End of Proviso Yard, in Elmhurst.

2. Blue Island Junction.

3. McCook Crossing.

4. Anywhere along the BNSF from Chicago to Aurora

5. CP LaGrange on the IHB.

6. Joliet Union Station.

7. Brighton Park Junction.

And the list could go on, but the that's just off the top of my head.

[Los Angeles Rams Guy]

River Junction (La Crescent), Minnesota where the ICE's mainline to Iowa and Kansas City splits from the CP mainline.

Moorhead, MN., where BNSF's former GN and NP mainlines cross.  

[nanaimo73]

Where, where???? (Links??)

Chad posted this list over a year ago. Some of these may be dead now-

http://www.trainorders.com/
Tehachappi,Dunsmuir,Sand Patch

http://live6.truelook.com/face/newface.jsp?func=live&name=/ecodb/omni&overlay=default&skin=Nov2004SOSD&useapplet=true&time=1155141904698&width=640&height=480&quality=65&catalogname=catalog&preset=Nov_2004/Work/Railyard 

San Diego, Ballpark cam overlooking the freight yards (BNSF,SDIV and the trolley

http://live6.truelook.com/face/newface.jsp?zoom=1.5&name=%2Fecodb%2Fsandiego%2Foneamerica2&skin=
San Diego, overlooking the Passenger depot

http://www.livetrains.com/plugins/cam/default.asp
Fort Madison

http://www.portvancouver.com/the_port/web_cams.html
Vancouver (several, not all pointed at the tracks)

http://www.railcams.com/
Santa Ana, Portland, Olympia,Fullerton

http://live6.truelook.com/face/newface.jsp?func=0&name=/port/cam/camera3&pan=-115.36499&tilt=-4.675&panfov=11.675&tiltfov=9.1&overlay=default&skin=default&useapplet=false&time=1034271735904&width=448
Oakland

http://web.insidevc.com/webcam/
Ventura

http://www.oiccam.com/depotdiner/train.html
Centerville,Ca.

http://stationinnpa.com/webcam/
between Johnstown and Altoona

http://64.84.107.59/view/index.shtml
Altoona (Horseshoe curve)

http://www.wplives.org/WPRM_Home/WPRM_webcam/wprm_webcam.html
Portola

http://video.dot.ca.gov/asx/80-floristan.asx
Floriston (Donner)

http://video.dot.ca.gov/
Caltrans (California hwys)

http://205.245.189.161:1100/Ex1/default.html
Galesburg,Il.

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/travel_info/gerlach_webcam.html

http://rawfire.torche.com/~taz/webcam/gerlach.htm
Gerlach,Nv.

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/cctv/dorris.shtml
Dorris,Ca. (not always looking at tracks)

http://www.goatbbs.com/cgi-bin/bbs50/webbbs_config.cgi
Chama, NM

http://www.highcountrywebcams.com/webcameras_sprucepine.htm
Spruce Pine, NC

http://www.TrainsLive.com/
Cumberland, Maryland

http://64.84.107.59/view/view.shtml?size=2
Horseshoe Curve Railroad Museum at Altoona, Pennsylvania

http://www.IRM.org/cam/
Illinois Railway Museum at Union, Illinois

http://www.MidContinent.org/netcam/
Mid-Continent Railway Museum at North Freedom, Wisconsin

http://www.RailCams.com/webcampix/olw1/olwcam12.html
Olympia, Washington

http://www.WPYR.com/multimedia/webcam.html
Skagway, Alaska

http://www.QTM.net/sjwebcam/
St. Joseph, Michigan

http://www.WenWorld.com/webcams/single.php?AID=101
Wenatchee, Washington

[galaxy]

There are several good Railcams on the web, so for your perusal, where else would you like to see a RailCam?

 

Where, where???? (Links??)