Western Railroad Discussion > Live Railroad Radio Website

For those of you who had been to our Live Railroad Radio Communications website at audio.railswest.net. We've changed the address to http://www.railroadradio.net We currently have the Highline, Feather River Canyon, Roseville area, SF Bay area, and Stampede pass available to listen to.

Steve P.
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i love this concept. is there a similar link to soucal bnsf/uprr radios??

Not that I know of. Unfortunately I don't foresee any new streams popping up since Live365 started charging a monthly fee for all new streams.

Steve P.

What kind of equipment is needed to set up a live stream?

There any out there? BRC and Harbor would be interesting as nearly everybody runs over their lines.

Beava
Canuck Pacific Railway
B'ville, IL

Basically you need:

1, A reciever such as a scanner. (We use Motorola GM300 commercial trancievers with the exception of Roseville which is using a Uniden scanner)

2, A full time internet connection such as DSL or Cable.

3, Software on the computer to encode the audio from your sound card. (We use WinAmp/ShoutcastDSP)

4, A Server to distribute your stream to many listeners. We use Live365.com which until this month offered free accounts. Luckily for the time being, existing accounts are "grandfathered". New accounts run $4.95 a month so I doubt we'll see any new "hobby" streams such as these going up. Some people who have access to a computer on a high bandwidth network run their own Shoutcast server.

Steve P.
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I've updated the links page on the website to include all the other Railroad Streams I know of. There's Decatur AL, North Jersey, Harrisburg PA, and Meriden CT.

Steve P.
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I think I would switch to a high speed connection if I knew of a rail radio-cast from Chicago. It would be pretty busy as most all the AAR channels are in use, some twice or three times in the Chicago Switching District. And to capture a lot of it, you would need at least two reciever sites, one on the south side, and one in the north side since the area is so large. And a downtown location is so loaded with intermod, it would be almost unusable.

I would open my pocket for a subscription if that were to help get it going.


RRKen
former Blue Island Railfan

Cool stuff steve.
To bad you cant put one at Bobs house for the Dunsmuir area.
Dave

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