[Accrs] Flagstaff Arzona

Tue Jul 16 07:37:58 PDT 2019

Just watched 4 locos (one CSX) and a 130 car container train.  Wow.

Dean

On 7/15/2019 2:44 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
> Message From: Dean&  Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
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> On 7/15/2019 10:03 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
>> Message From: Dennis Stokelydstokely at sbcglobal.net
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>> Glad you finally found Virtual Railfan.  I've been telling a number 
>> of people at the club about it for almost a year.  While the term 
>> great is appropriate for Virtual Railfanin total, IMHO it isn't for 
>> Flagstaff which is just average for the VR cameras.  The camera is 
>> too close to the trains and I don't recall seeing anything other than 
>> double stacks and the twice a day Amtrak.  Although the frequency is 
>> good and it is the best lighting after dark of the free cameras.  I 
>> have not yet paid to subscribe for the ones not on U-tube.
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>> Kansas City has a better variety of trains on two very active main 
>> lines and a small yard.  The yard is most active around 7:00 am our 
>> time and it is hard to believe how slow the UP crews are at 
>> switching.  The camera is located above the tracks and is a better 
>> viewpoint than Flagstaff.  The train mix on the main line has both 
>> loaded and empty coal trains, grain trains and a lot of manifest 
>> freights as well as the stack trains.
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>> Skykomish is relatively light in traffic but is the line they use for 
>> the Boeing 737's.  There is usually one loaded Boeing train a day and 
>> the chat group keeps an eye on them as well as the two Empire 
>> Builders.  Unfortunately the camera operator does not always keep up 
>> on the chat and frequently has the camera pointed in the wrong 
>> direction and doesn't pan.   However, the camera is far enough from 
>> the tracks that it is a good view anytime.  Because of the delays in 
>> the Cascade Tunnel and single track through the mountains there are 
>> frequent meets with a eastbound trains stopped on the siding.  If 
>> there is a good moderator on the camera they do amazing zooms showing 
>> locomotive and car details.
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>> Ashland has a lot of Amtrak traffic including the Autotrain twice a 
>> day, the Tropicana Juice cut (it's not a train anymore) and CSX mixed 
>> freights as well as intermodal.  There are three cameras, two fixed 
>> and a 360 degree frequently run by the curator of the museum in the 
>> Amtrak station where the camera is mounted.  The 360 degree has the 
>> same issue as Flagstaff right in front of the station but is good 
>> when facing down the track.  The fixed cameras are on a different 
>> building on the opposite side of the tracks.
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>> Horseshoe curve is a 360 degree camera which sometimes an operator 
>> will follow all around the curve.  They caught the derailment last 
>> week live.  There is a lot of activity on the curve.
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>> Barstow isn't a good camera location and the default camera is the 
>> one facing away from the main yard.  I would not rate it above 
>> Flagstaff other than a lot of us have been there.
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>> Belen is right at the end of the yard but a lot depends on the camera 
>> operator as whether it is interesting or not.
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>> And they just added Plant City Florida.  I'm not sure why.  It is a 
>> fairly slow location and they keep the camera pointed into the 
>> ground.  However, it is great location to be there in person (in the 
>> winter, it is quite hot on the city funded train watching platform in 
>> the summer).  It rates lower than Flagstaff on the greatness scale.
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>> On Sunday, July 14, 2019, 1:16:08 PM PDT, Alameda County Central 
>> Railroad Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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>> This is a great cam.   Just caught this coming through on a container 
>> train.   Wonder how that CN unit got down here.
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> Just now 111 stack cars.  All looked like they were 53' as they filled 
> the wells.   Vast majority of the cars wereJ.B Hunt.   4 locos on the 
> front.  very few if any not double stacked.
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> Dean
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>> This is a good link.   You can get on all day or just scroll back on 
>> the time line to find trains.
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>> Dean
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHzusfLVSY
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>> Cam: https://youtu.be/enHzusfLVSY 
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHzusfLVSY>
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>> West Cam: https://youtu.be/F96dCRzfKOY 
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96dCRzfKOY>
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>> Dean
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