Show of hands… How many of you would like to see the City of Rochelle, Illinois put some lights on the diamond area so trains can be seen at night on their webcam?
I’d love to watch this great webcam, but I usually only get to view it when it’s either getting dark or at during the night. The Galesburg Railroad Museum webcam, by contrast, is easy to view any time of day.
It would be neat, but I bet it would be both expensive and really annoying to the crews…right now, the webcam alone doesn’t cost that much. Add in a few floodlights, and suddenly you need to sell a few more subcriptions…because I’m sure the city wouldn’t pay!
I say to upgrade it totally. Today I was deciding which line (UP, BNSF) to view, turns out I got screwed. OAK came on the BNSF, never seen an OAKWAY before, so I could have seen that instead of 2 coal train, 2 intermodel, and 2 METRA. Crappy pictures too.
I’m sure the city could add a few more “streetlights” at minimal cost - most streetlights are wired directly to the utility and the municipality pays a flat rate.
The issue with the crews is much bigger - depending on how the lights are set, they can cause an effective blackout beyond them.
Keep in mind the neighbors, too…
IIRC, the viewing platform at Folkston has floodlights, but they shine directly across the tracks, and I recall mostly businesses on the other side. I could be wrong - I was there during the day.
I would love to see a new web cam at Rochelle. The one in use now sucks big time. The web cam at Ft Madison is a wounderfull cam. Oh ya,don’t forget about http://www.western.com
First, I highly doubt they’d ever put up lights, because there are homes right next to the tracks.
As far as the Galesburg cam goes, I have never been able to view it, either here at work or at home. Do you have a link? Being a native of that area, I’d love to see it.
Thanks,
Erik
http://205.245.189.161:1100/Ex1/default.html
Link to Galesburg Webcam… it is also a remote controlled cam… lot sof action to watch, both passenger and freight.
Fort Madison webcam address[:o)]
http://www.livetrains.com/plugins/cam/default.asp
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Way Kewl!!! Just what I need Another traincam to watch lmao now to get a bigger monitor to display all my webcam windows lol currently have at least 7 open at one time:)!!!
I think a couple of regular street lights on both the BNSF and UP would be OK here…it doesn’t seem to bother automobile drivers while driving through their own neighborhood so why would the lights bother the train crews.
This would be cool because you could literally take photos 24/7, but of course you’d have to eat and sleep sometime.
The biggest problem here…getting the city of Rochelle to do this…pretty hard if you ask me.