[:-^]I watch every morn when it is coffee time. Iam watching to see the white pickup still parked there day and night. Maybe the owner is a hobo drifter, and not any where near this place.
Jim
Still raining .Not much action today , at least not in the times i was on . RON
Heads up:
Special train in cam view now. {4} ABBA units with maybe Executive {N S}, train…Can just see one pass. car.
The four units are center screen on the cam right now . RON
I think they may be tied down for the night . Big shots are probably staying at the hotel roanoke tonight . RON
I think they may be tied down for the night . Big shots are probably staying at the hotel roanoke tonight . RON
My bet is that is is for a Autumn Colors Excursion this weekend… maybe starting Friday.
[:-^] Quentin; you are right, the engines are tied down. The signal bridge is showing all red. This is at 7:45pm MST. The car bihind the engine has a light in the window ( for the hoggers and crew to find their way home??) for supper. HEH HEH . Gonna check VRM cam now.
Cannonball
Executive train pulled out at 7:10 this morning . RON
…Ron, did you see if it had a long consist of pass cars…?
And Cannonball…I wondered about the dim light in the pass car window last night too. Didn’t look like any of the engines were running…So I then thought it might just have been a street light {along that walking path}, on the far side of the tracks, shining thru a facing window in the pass car.
Noticed a blinking light a couple hundred feet ahead of the lead engine. looked like it was on or at the track the train was setting on.
Whatever it all was, it was something a bit different to look at…Noted quite a few cars driving down along side of the train last night, and thought perhaps it was just rail fan onlookers.
I also noticed a lot more cars traversing that parking lot at night and assumed they were railfans.
There was also someone parked at the far end that would periodically get out of the car and walk to the near end, be gone for a few minutes and then walk back to the car. He had a bright flashlight that he periodically would shine on the sides of the engines and between them. I assumed he was Night Security for the consist.
The flashing light may be the light on a switch. I have seen similar flashing from a signal between tracks 2 and 3 about the center of the scene. But I also wonder if maybe is was similar to a highway barracade flashing light and maybe it was on a Derail that was protecting the mainline from the consist (in case it decided to make an unscheduled midnight excursion).
And that white pickup truck is still there.
…Yes, I too thought the flashing light might have been associated with a derail.
There were 10 cars . There was an open platform car on the rear with a full length dome car ahead of it .The engines were shut down for the night . I watched them being fired up this morning . RON
cant seem to get the cam to work my meida player must be messed up
cam is working at my end with Media player.
My timing isn`t very good lately . Every time i log on , nothing is happening . I will just keep on trying . RON
Geez…I haven’t visited this thread in forever. Everybody, look at the webcam now! There’s a passenger special of some sort on the cam! The VMT railcam is down, likely from flooded traffic. Does anybody know anything about this thing?
Gee, thanks for the heads up. What a nice site. Is it too late for a Fall colored leaf special…?
Boy, wish we had scheduled pass. consists passing thru there everyday.
Edit: Train just backed to the left…3 Amtrak engines on the point. Nice site.
Another edit: Appears the engines have run around the consist and now facing east. Didn’t actually count the cars, but must be roughly, 35 or so…Some full domes.
3 engines & 25 cars, four of them domes. It’s the trip from Spencer N.C. Will be running to Toccoa, Ga tomorrow.
Thanks for the heads-up… nice to get the subsribed to a topic e-mail in this instance!
Now a question… I had trouble counting the cars (wish I had recorded the move) so I can only estimate that there are about 30 passenger cars. Anybody get an accurate count? EDIT: Oops, I see co2726ehp got a count and posted before I got done typing.
Now another question… Why are there 3 AMTRAK engines on the point? I thought passenger cars would be lots lighter than freight cars and I see many freight trains of 50 to 100 cars with only 2 engines. Are the passenger cars all that much heavier, or the AMtRAK engines all that much weaker or is the railroad demanding triple redundancy because they don’t want a stupid old passenger train to breakdown on the line and tie up traffic?