How many trains pass through the web cam site in Rochelle on a daily basis? Is this a controlled area with a gift shop? What I mean by “controlled” is: is this just an area for viewing that happens to be there, or, was it built with the rail fan in mind? Wish we cold control the video cam like the one I visit that watches over the Detroit River. You can rotate that cam, zoom in & out - has pretty good zoom power, too! Wouldn’t that be cool for the rail cam we have access to here, to be able to look down any of the tracks, etc.! Hey…sound, too!!
The train count varies. Could see upwards of 50 or so in daylight hours. Its hard to see them at night. There is a gift shop on site and there is a pavillion to watch trains from that is elevated. One of the city officials decieded it was time to do something for railfans and had money raised for the park to be built. Ken Wise was the name. He also let UP know that they should be Global 3 there instead of just outside Chicago. So yes, to answer your question, it is not really controlled. It’s come whenever and leave whenever but the gift shop has hours.
Amtrak please pass along the site for webcam in Detroit
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the Detroit webcam site is http://www.glmi.org/webcam
It lets you control the cam for 2 minutes, then, it continues to send video data. I just checked to see if it’s still working - it is! So, I had no problem keeping control of the cam by just pushing the “start” again. The large buildings across the water are in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The span bridge is the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit with Windsor. It’s cool to watch the Great Lake freighters go by - the “freight trains” of the Great Lakes. Makes me home sick whenever I go to this webcam. The cam is mounted on top of a freighter’s wheel house at a museum in Detroit.
It differs. On a good day, the BNSF will have about 5-20 in an hour. This only happens on a Satuday morning if their is a traffic back up. UP would have about 5-30 trains in a hour and a half on a good day.
The ratio is…1 BNSF=4UP But that isn’t always true.