Want another cam to watch?
http://www.failroadtracks.com/
Have fun!
EDIT:
You need to add that it is in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ha! That’s a great video. However, I’m certain there is some rule against enjoying it too much…
[oX)]
John
What is neat about that cam is that not only do you get to see a train periodically, you also get to see an automobile get destroyed sometimes too.
Done. 
Slow morning in roanoke . I have seen only one train in over two hours . RON
Does anyone but me watch the roanoke cams anymore ? RON
yeah, I’m still watching. Not as much as I used to and not near as much as I WANT to… but I do still check it once or twice a day for a few minutes.
Usually when I do get it on screen I also have the Fostoria and the newer “FailRoadTracks” cam in Salt Lake City at the same time.
Fostoria and SLC both have sound too, which I didn’t think would be worth it at first but it has turned out to be nice at times on those. Both tend to be overdriven by the sounds of the trains, but it can sometimes be a help to let me know to watch one (and fun to guess which track it will be on!.. I can usually tell which camera it will be just by the unique background sound that fades as the horn blows).
The sound on the SLC cam is often as much as a minute behind the video… it is a bit disconcerting to see a big truck pull up to the stop sign (maybe just barely slow for it) and then pull away belching smoke out the exhaust and then a minute later hear the truck brakes squeel and then hear the rumble as it pulls away. Same thing when a train goes across and a minute later you hear it whistle for the crossing!
As for Roanoke… How long has that topper truck been backed into that parking slot? I think it has been near a month now, hasn’t it?
Just saw three engines running light westbound on track 2.
Train on the SLC camera should show up soon. Gates just went down. But I don’t hear any horn.
Took a good 5 minutes for the train to show up and he didn’t blow for the crossing. BUT, it had a nice caboose on the end! Unfortunately I didn’t have my snipping tool active and i missed getting an image.
Ooo wait wait… he is backing into view again.
Rats. I’m too slow. I will watch for that one again!
Coal trian on the Fostoria cam.
Do you have the web address for the salt lake city cam ? RON
If the link doesn’t work, cut and past it into your browser.
Thanks . RON
Been in the hospital for a while . Just got back on line and there doesn’t seem to be near as much traffic in roanoke as usual . RON
Well… I hope you enjoyed your stay in the hospital… Too many people find it not enjoyable and are just dying to get out of there.
I am glad you survived it and are back to watch the railcam again.
I, too, have noticed a great reduction in traffic in Roanoke. Seems the parking lot in the foreground has fewer cars too.
I wonder if you notied the white pickup truck (with the low topper) is still backed into the stall near the west end. Seems to me that has been there for near two months now.
All in all , a pleasant hospital stay . I did notice the truck is still there . RON
MOW is working on that section of track where the autoracks derailed again . RON
I haven’t been able to look for some time. I looked just now (tail end of an empty unit coal west bound) and I see that pickup truck still backed into the parking spot. Has it moved and come back or is it maybe painted on the camera lens? [:D]
I am thinking like you . It is painted on the lens . RON
…Tuned into the cam last evening and was rewarded with a “green screen” only. But note, it’s up and running this morning. Raining in Roanoke this morning. No trains at the time {few seconds}, I checked this morning.
My new laptop PC has an HDMI port on it, as does my digital TV. So I bought an HDMI cable (egad them suckers am expensive… even though I found it on a clearance table!) and plugged an end of the cable into each port of the PC and TV. The PC went “bloop-bloop” and the screen blanked and then came back at a slightly smaller resolution which jumbled all my desktop icons… RATZ!
I opened the resolution setting dialog and reset the resolution back to 1600x900 and it remembered where all the icons used to be! Hooray! First time I have ever seen that happen!
I pressed the HDMI button on the TV remote and there was a duplicate of my PC’s “desktop” on my TV!, Mouse arrow and all. I then found a dialog box that let me declare the HDMI output to be a different display (rather than a duplicate of the laptop’s display). So now I have a blank desktop on the TV screen (contains just the wallpaper I selected for the desktop, no icons).
The TV is a smaller resolution but can be changed to other values, but I have left it at the default for now.
I then ran Google Earth and just drug the window to the right to shove it off the Laptop screen and onto the TV screen. I left it kind of half and half so I could read the text in the left pane of the window on the Laptop, but view the earth images on the TV. NICE!
I closed Google Earth and then ran Internet explorer and accessed the Roanoke railcam, which automatically opens Windows Media player to show the camera. While it was setting up, I drug that window to the TV screen and clicked the “full screen” arrow at the bottom right and it expanded to fill the TV screen.
I can now watch Roanoke on the TV while I am surfing the web or looking for roundhouses on Google Earth or writing Visual Basic programs or playing solitaire on the Laptop PC screen.
Google earth seems to be a wee bit slower while the railcam is running, but not too bad. BTW: I am also running Excel to ha