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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Belen is right at the end of the yard but a lot depends on the camera operator as whether it is interesting or not. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dennis<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, July 14, 2019, 1:16:08 PM PDT, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs@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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHzusfLVSY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHzusfLVSY</a><br>
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Cam: </span><a class="ydpeb2f63a0yiv0197092958yt-simple-endpoint ydpeb2f63a0yiv0197092958style-scope ydpeb2f63a0yiv0197092958yt-formatted-string" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHzusfLVSY" style="display:inline-block;cursor:pointer;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/enHzusfLVSY</a><span style="color:rgb(13, 13, 13);font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline;float:none;"><br>
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