Dont’ fret, I have just the opposite. I couldn’t see it at the office today, but I just checked and could see it at home. That’s right, not even we can see it at our office. Isn’t technology grand? It’s going to get better, just be patient.
As I was just checking it (despite the tempting smells of Christmas cookies coming from the kitchen), a UP train crawled through the darkness of the diamond and lit the area with it’s headlight (pretty cool). To be honest, the UP paint scheme never looked so good to me. [:o)]
…just minutes later, another even cooler thing happened.
An eastbound approched the diamond and cut his headlights and ditch lights so you could only see the dim headlights and number boards moving across the screen. Just as that locomotive moved off to the right of the camera’s view, a westbound came by and lit the side of the eastbound. The timing was just a littile off, but it was cool none the less.
To be honest, I don’t sit back and smell the roses enough (in other words, take time to view the web came on the very site that I run). Shame on me.
I’ve seen that a couple times of the UP trains dimming the lights to greet the other train going to the opposite direction. So it’s cool to see them doing that when it’s late nite. It’s also quite cool to see the BNSF train going to Aurora, you can see the lights coming brighter and reflecting off the building there in the background. As well as seeing the forthcoming UP trains going west to east. Can’t beat late nite entertainment there.
Here’s a fun fact for y’all. At the Nature Center on the outskirts of Cedar Rapids, the rail line that goes through the area is actually the UP railway line that goes through Rochelle [;)]
Hopefully, technology will come through, and I can get to watch those trains past though the night soon. Even though I can watch them at work, can’t do it all night like i do at home. Boss usually frowns upon that. [;)]