tell me were you would like to see a railcam.
maybe someone here at trains.com will take note and put one there.[8D]got any thoughts Tower 55, Cajon, Tehachapi a east coast NS or CSX line, or maybe a short line somewhere in USA and see a short line show of old geeps and switchers.
so let me know what or should i say were you want one
I wouldn’t mind having a train cam at Gibbon or Kearney, Nebraska. It would be interesting to have one at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska too. Seeing the operations in America’s largest rail yard would have to be interesting. It would also be cool to have one on the Cajon Pass.
Willy
good sugestion
a yard is a awsome place for a webcam
lets you see the day-to-day job of a yard crew and good veiws of locomotive terminals
Maybe Alliance, Nebraska
DOGGY
Not for nothing, but…I wouldn’t mind seeing an outbound shot of one of the ladder track
interlockings of Grand Central Terminal (NYC). I just wish I had access to my GCT folder (office is packed for new carpet and right now, some cobwebs fill my short term memory…) so I could pin point a location that could be neat. There are a great number of cross/slip switches that you don’t get to see elsewhere…and they’re a thing of beauty…
There is always something from Metro-North departing or arriving.
Ive said it before Fostoria Oh but you would need a dual cameras to catch the action on all 3 lines(2 csx and ns).
stay safe
Joe
I’ve already asked Mike Yuhas about getting a camera at Dayton’s Bluff just east of downtown St Paul, cause it has fantastic variety and action. He told me what the requirements were, and I immeadiately dropped the subject.
You will need a place to mount your camera on PRIVATE PROPERTY not belonging to the railroad, a sourse of electricity and high bandwidth internet access, camera and server, and the money for all of the costs of operating it.
ANY TAKERS??? If not, I’m afraid that we can only dream.
in Pittsburgh at CP-Home and CP-Bloom in both directions
If any short line deserves a Web cam it be NBSR with the camera on
the rail line near St steven or some where in northern Maine.New Brunswick
Southern Railway has a selection of Equipment ranging from SW-1200
GP-9,s GP-7R,s GP-38-2,S and GP-38-3.S(which are rebuilt GP-35,s).you never
know what they may haul from military loads to equipment for the Irving oil
refinery.
stay green stay safe
David Brown
The only way that new railcams will go up is if someone sponsors them. In the case of the Willis cam in Galesburg, they had the connection and were willing to use part of it for the cam. The Ft Madison cam lists a number of sponsors/advertisers. We already know about the Rochelle cam.
The equipment isn’t really a showstopper. While it’s not cheap, the hardware necessary to do something useful isn’t out of the range of a decent sponsor. Right now, the Willis cam is a home camcorder, sitting on a window sill…
The location can be touchy - getting reliable power and the Internet connection could be issues. Some really great spots for cams are probably a good distance from both. Even so, the monthly cost of power for the cam and server would be relatively small.
The Internet connection, on the other hand, is going to cost you. Even RoadRunner comes in at over $40 a month. A commercial grade “T1” will likely be a good deal more. I haven’t priced them lately.
The bottom line, if you want to introduce a rail cam somewhere, is to convince some businesses, tourism groups, and local governments that the cam will benefit them. If Rochelle (and others) can build a park, you might be able to arrange a rail cam where you are.
Basin yard in North Platte. They’re errecting a seven story golden spike that will overlook the yard, put it on that spike.
The spike is owned by the city and is on city property!
Thank you Larry, you have very nicely filled in the detail of the message that I was trying to convey. While the task of setting up a new railcam is not impossible, it is much more of a challenge than I can manage these days, and I doubt that too many of our other dreamy fri
I’d like to see a webcam at Cascade Locks,OR. in the Columbia River Gorge.[:)]
On Millie’s dashboard! [:-^][:-^][:-^]
Second the motion.
What?
At the Naperville IL Metra/Amtrak stop.
where do we send the check??[8D]
stay safe
Joe and matt
2nd that
DOGGY
GO CUBS