Western Railroad Discussion > Future Virtual Railcam Locations

Kansas City
Austell
Fullerton
San Bernardino
Barstow

All of these cams should be up within the next 3 months !

Posted from iPhone



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/18 07:40 by AC6000CW_Fan.

Is that a you want them up in three months or a they will be operational in three months?

Posted from Android

AC6000CW_Fan Wrote:
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> Kansas City
> Austell
> Fullerton
> San Bernardino
> Barstow
>
> All of these cams should be up within the next 3
> months !
>
> Posted from iPhone

This is the very First I have heard about a San Bernardino Railcam.
I regularly monitor the VR site chat where they usually mention
solid locaiton that are boing worked.
Official user "VR" did mention about a week ago that Fullerton internet service has been purchased.
Barstow CA was also mentioned as a solid location thats in the pipeline.

A VR chat member did mention that he was working on Santa Fe JCT in KC MO.
That KC MO location should be outstanding to have as well with Triple stacked mainlines.
----Daniel

What's the train count on these locations?

I'm hearing they are popular when the train count is around 50 a day, or higher. The participants wait for a train on the livestream and then comment on the consist, and/or watch it on ATSC monitor. Seems like a casual afternoon of train watching, if the trains participate.

Curious about descriptions or comments.

I subscribe to Virtual Rail because I frequent Folkston. VR is adding enough sites that I will upgrade my membership to get HD. The guy running the Railfan park in Deshler asked how I knew about the place? I told him it just popped up on VR. He just then figured out that the camera, they just installed, was going to bring more Railfans to Deshler. I've been a member for almost 3 years and VR has been delivering on great product.

Fullerton?

So did TrainWeb throughly s**w the orginal cameras that were there via the Fullerton Railway Plaza Association?

I'm more of a Railstream guy myself, but if VR gets a Kansas City cam in the right spot, I'd definitely throw some cash their way too!

-Tom

Are there any plans for a PNW cam? I heard they did site inspection in Skykomish a few weeks ago, but haven't heard anything since. Whichever site (Railstream or VR) puts a cam here will get my permanent membership!

PNWRailfan Wrote:
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> Are there any plans for a PNW cam? I heard they
> did site inspection in Skykomish a few weeks ago,
> but haven't heard anything since. Whichever site
> (Railstream or VR) puts a cam here will get my
> permanent membership!

Skykomosh WA has been mentioned in the VR site chatroom as an upcoming install.
PNW Railfans should LOVE Having a VRF cam up in that beautiful and busy Pac NW location.
That is on VRF--VR PAY site chat.
---Daniel

Do I have to wear VR glasses to see the images?

Posted from iPhone

zchcsse Wrote:
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> I'm more of a Railstream guy myself, but if VR
> gets a Kansas City cam in the right spot, I'd
> definitely throw some cash their way too!
>
> -Tom


If what I heard was correct, prepare to see a lot of armour yellow on that camera.

La Plata is popular. Friday night 700+ viewers ballooned to 1300+ just to watch Amtrak stop at the station. Seems to be a regular thing for people to tune in to watch the train stop.
It's been a steady 150-200 viewers today watching empty rails while BNSF has the traffic stopped for the curfew.

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howeld Wrote:
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> La Plata is popular. Friday night 700+ viewers
> ballooned to 1300+ just to watch Amtrak stop at
> the station. Seems to be a regular thing for
> people to tune in to watch the train stop.
> It's been a steady 150-200 viewers today watching
> empty rails while BNSF has the traffic stopped for
> the curfew.
>
> Posted from iPhone

Haven't been on VR for awhile, but remember La Plata being a favorite. Lots of transcon intermodal trains and interesting watching the activity at the station when Amtrak stopped. Especially viewing the large Amish population.

I haven't heard anything either about San Bernardino but San Juan Capistrano is on the list though. Cajon has pretty much the same activity that goes through San Bernardino. The only cam missing at Cajon is for the Palmdale-Colton cutoff.

jkurt Wrote:
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> I haven't heard anything either about San
> Bernardino but San Juan Capistrano is on the list
> though. Cajon has pretty much the same activity
> that goes through San Bernardino. The only cam
> missing at Cajon is for the Palmdale-Colton
> cutoff.

At Cajon, you can't see the trains at night.  These days that's a requirement, for a location with good lighting.

mapboy

daniel3197 Wrote:
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> Skykomosh WA has been mentioned in the VR site
> chatroom as an upcoming install.
> PNW Railfans should LOVE Having a VRF cam up in
> that beautiful and busy Pac NW location.
> That is on VRF--VR PAY site chat.
> ---Daniel

Only 20 - 24 trains per day at Sky, and with the slow speeds (grades, curves) of the route, it will take a lot of construction/changes before there will be more than 25 - 28. Is that enough to keep viewers interested? I thought VR's policy was 50 tpd or more for a new location...I think nightbot or one of the mods mentioned that in a recent chat thread.