Click on the below link then go to the Tahoe area & select the 80 & Applegate camera & the tracks on your left. I would guess the elevation maybe around 2,000’ at this location
Works great, whose tracks are those on the left in the picture? For the minute or so I could watch this morning I saw no trains but it looks like a mainline. WOW, the cameras at the higher elevations show a much different picture with lots of snow and ice…glad we are having 64F temps here today.
Thanks for the tip. Now THAT’S a great location.
I knew about these cameras. I look at them when helping my step dad over I-80. The tracks at the left I believe are Union Pacific.
i love this camera…now to wait for a train. can anyone identify the sub and what trains use it?
Just spent a few minutes with Google Maps. That’s the line between Donner and Roseville, from what I can see.
It’s too dark to see anything right now; I’ll wait till morning.[:(]
I saw a MOW/WB go by just before dark.
ah thank you. is it used heavily?
For all that dont know its UP’s Roseville Sub (Donner Pass). Donner sees usualy 7 trains a day ( Not really sure) and that includes bolth California Zephyrs.
I was just about to give up when the screen got really bright [yeah] on the left side. 10:06 on the on-screen clock. Two locos for sure… SD somethings, possible 3rd loco might have been a smaller GP something. Not enough light (or resolution) to get the loco numbers. Seemed to be a container train (like I said, it was DARK). Last car was possibly a truck trailer on a flat car.
Came in from the left and headed deeper into the image. I have no idea which direction the camera is facing.
It had a nice, bright, “lightning bug” on the tail end! [8D]
Should have put that in my other post - looks to me like the camera faces south (track-wise, towards Roseville).
Is this the location of the camera?
39Deg.00’13.35"N, 120Deg.59’36.12"W
My software places it at
39deg 00.22’ 120deg 55.58 Edit: 120 59.58
That is at I-80 exit 128 e/b
Go with SV’s - Google maps put my right on the overpass.
The cam does appear to be looking at the EB off-ramp.
Now we need someone to figure out when the Amtrak trains should pass the spot…
Thank you very much for the link to the Caltrans Highway webcams in California! Currently The Caltrans webcams that I know of that show rail action are as follows. The Caltrans Floriston webcam is only listed this EXCELLENT website focused on Donner Pass. The Floriston webcam is listed in the TOP RIGHT hand corner:
http://video.dot.ca.gov/[](http://video.dot.ca.gov/)
Floriston (Donner Pass), CHILES road (Sacramento list) and Applegate(Tahoe List–Donner Pass). The most ACTIVE Caltrans webcam should be the CHILES road west facing view of the Sacramento to Davis former SP “Cal-P” line now UP. This old SP “Cal-P” line gets ALL of the Amtrak Capitol Corridor plus the long distance California Zephyr and Coast Starlight Amtrak trains. This is in addition to almost all of the Sacramento to Oakland freight trains operated by Union Pacific. The BNSF does operate some double stack trains on this Cal P line to and from the Port of Oakland via Sac (Elvas)–Stockton–enroute Bakersfield and Tehachapi.
Here is another webcam that I just found about from another forum. This is located in Manassas Virginia on the east coast of the United States. This is a truly LIVE view which is my favorite kind of webcam:
http://www.visitmanassas.org/camera
— Daniel
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Click on the below link then go to the Tahoe area & select the 80 & Applegate camera & the tracks on your left. I would guess the elevation maybe around 2,000’ at this location
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awesome camara shots!! (thanks)
It appears someone moved the camera away from the tracks.
…Right now, it’s nothing but fog. Can see highway traffic just a bit thru it but what is nice is the “streaming video” action…and the size of the pic. Sure wish the Trains.com camera over at Rochelle would perform like this one is…
But I too wonder where the tracks are…Right now though, it’s difficult to get a good look around due to the fog. If tracks are in the view {to the left}, when the fog lifts it sure would be nice to watch railroad action via “streaming video”.
It does appear that the camera may have been panned right a touch, but I can’t say for sure. We’ll have to see when the fog clears.