Interesting live webcam from Ohio

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Now I'm not at all interested in US railways, sorry, railroads.

 

However this is a really interesting webcam location - plenty of l------o------n-----g freights around. Interesting to watch the weather too.

 

 

[Enterprisingwestern]

Now I'm not at all interested in US railways, sorry, railroads.

 

However this is a really interesting webcam location - plenty of l------o------n-----g freights around. Interesting to watch the weather too.

 

 

Rubbish trainset, stood watching for 10 minutes and nothing happened!

 

Mike.

[olivegreen]

Rubbish trainset, stood watching for 10 minutes and nothing happened!

 

Mike.

 

Typical of Scalefour/P4   (or whatever one is supposed to call it these days).

Edited December 28, 2017 by olivegreen

[gordon s]

Thanks Pete.  I did sit and watch for 10 minutes and nothing showed, but then it is 04.33am in the US....but, the red bar at the bottom is a 4 hour rewind and I did find a few trains earlier.  (02.15am)

 

Gotta go, I can hear one now!

Edited December 28, 2017 by gordon s

[Peter Kazmierczak]

It does get rather addictive Gordon........

 

As you say, you can scroll back to look through the previous four hours. You can also switch to another camera and look in the other direction.

[gordon s]

I'm guessing the web cam is up the telegraph/power pole in this pic.  

 

 

Deshler, Ohio is not the busiest or places.  Population in 2010 of under 1800.

 

Big Fire Department though in the main street.

 

 

 

You can't get much sleep in the US if you're close to a railway.  The horns and bells would wake the dead....

Edited December 29, 2017 by gordon s

[scottystitch]

They are having a bit of snowfall.....

[Steamysandy]

Virtual Railfan on YouTube has a number of these webcams with some interesting locations.

Ashland , Virginia is on the CSX mainline south of Washington and features freight and passenger trains running on a segregated double track down the Middle of the street and a level crossing.Amtrak stops in the street to drop and pick up passengers.

On the BNSF Chicago to Kansas City mainline is La Plata with one Amtrak train a day!Station operations are best described as Chaotic and timekeeping is a joke!

The great American railroad is a sad sight today

Edited December 29, 2017 by Steamysandy

[Re6/6]

As has been said....."L--O---N---G" freights! 106 on one.

 

Great stuff Peter. Thanks.

[Talltim]

Typical of Scalefour/P4 (or whatever one is supposed to call it these days).

P87

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Very varied freight. One just passed westbound with over 120 wagons (I gave up counting).

 

Container trains - often double stacked which look rather precarious

Oil tankers

Grain

Coal hoppers

Coke hoppers

Covered car carriers

Box vans

Flat wagons

 

You name it.

Most have graffiti on the side. The coke hoppers seem to be the cleanest wagons, maybe their loading/unloading point is more secure.

[gordon s]

Loads more info on Deshler here.....

 

http://www.railfanguides.us/oh/deshler/

[Talltim]

There was some sort of warning siren and 10:00 EST followed by the sound of a train but no train, must have been on one of the three chords between the lines. Has anyone seen a train on the single track Toledo sub yet?

Also these, which stopped to check the diamond before crossing

Edited December 29, 2017 by Talltim

[gordon s]

From Toledo at 12.12.....

 

Edited December 29, 2017 by gordon s

[gordon s]

How about this one at 15.11.....

 

[stewartingram]

Phew! That puts a Flexity in Lord Street Fleetwood to shame then.

 

Stewart

[Talltim]

Just when I was thinking, ‘that’s a pretty long autorack train’...

One of them had a severe wheel flat

[gordon s]

Good grief, that street run started at 16.21 and it was 10 MINUTES until the last car passed.....

[Talltim]

And a 16:30 the double stack stops with the rear in the street, only just clearing the crossroads

[gordon s]

From a driver's perspective how can you know what's going on with a train that must be a mile long?

 

As I said last night I watched a train pass through La Grange, Kentucky right down the middle of East Main Street with pedestrians and cars on both sides.  From memory there were three loco's at the front and there may have been additional ones mid train, but there were none at the back.  The whole train took ten minutes to pass and there must have been 100-150 freight cars in the train.  

 

I'm guessing there are cameras along the train, but unless you have someone watching it continually, I can't see how you can drive a train a mile long and know exactly what's going on all the time.

 

Any ideas?

[gordon s]

Jeez, what a time waster this site is......:-)

 

Just picked up a train of empty hoppers heading towards Toledo @ 14.01.

 

The surprising thing was just one loco at the front. It went on for so long I had to rewind the video and count them. Why do we have to do that?

 

Bottom line was 135 coal hoppers behind one loco. That's impressive whichever was you look at it....

Edited December 30, 2017 by gordon s

[Peter Kazmierczak]

I made it 135 too Gordon - something like 1.25 miles long.

 

Must admit I count the number of coaches / wagons when I see them pass by on model layouts.​ Sad or what?

[don]

My favourite is the Chesterton Indiana Railcam,on RAILSTREAM LLC.

Plenty of trains,usually long and running from 10mph to track limit speed around  70mph, through the middle of small town USA.

As a free cam you will get adverts but not to annoying,some you can click off after 5seconds.

Watch the volume though!!

Don.

[Talltim]

From a driver's perspective how can you know what's going on with a train that must be a mile long?

 

As I said last night I watched a train pass through La Grange, Kentucky right down the middle of East Main Street with pedestrians and cars on both sides. From memory there were three loco's at the front and there may have been additional ones mid train, but there were none at the back. The whole train took ten minutes to pass and there must have been 100-150 freight cars in the train.

 

I'm guessing there are cameras along the train, but unless you have someone watching it continually, I can't see how you can drive a train a mile long and know exactly what's going on all the time.

 

Any ideas?

I get the impression a lot of it is done by hope, there won’t be any cameras and all the engineer (driver) has to go on is the feel of the train and EOT device. This is the tail light which is in radio contact with the cab and can let off the brake air pressure by remote control. As you can imagine a brake application from the loco would take a fair while to propogate down the train from the head end so the EOT allows faster brake application (the ability to apply the brakes from both ends of the train was what allowed HSTs to run faster on lines with signal spacing for slower trains)

Under the recently deceased President Hunter Harrison CSX has been pushing to run longer trains with the minimum of power. I get the impression the railroaders who actually have to do it aren’t too impressed.

[bimble]

Jeez, what a time waster this site is......:-)

 

Just picked up a train of empty hoppers heading towards Toledo @ 14.01.

 

The surprising thing was just one loco at the front. It went on for so long I had to rewind the video and count them. Why do we have to do that?

 

Bottom line was 135 coal hoppers behind one loco. That's impressive whichever was you look at it....

 

The Ashland camera is a favourite of mine, though I do recall one morning where there was a derailment in the yard to the south and a +100 coal hopper slowly rolled into town, and instead of stopping short of the town, or even at the station, rolled into the town, bisected the town blocking the two main crossings in town. It then sat there for nearly 2 1/2hrs.