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jim pastorius posted:

I watch the Curve webcam all the time-the best. Right now the VR cams are  down,falling snow gives them trouble, I guess. I get good info off the chat bout the Lurgan branch which is a half mile away.

Jim,

 It's back up and working as a train of mostly double-stacks and empties is passing by.

Tom

Been watching on and off this afternoon, and the most impressive thing I saw was a westbound train consisting of mostly tank cars being led by 5 locomotives and pushed by another two...

The amount of reflective placards really show at night on the intermodal trains... would be nice to get something like that into our models...

RootBeerRail posted:

 

The amount of reflective placards really show at night on the intermodal trains... would be nice to get something like that into our models...

smokeboxgraphics.com sells  the reflecting stickers in O-HO-and N scales...use ro148 for the cars.....they also have the yellow and white long strips to go on locomotive side frames.....all my locos and cars have these....looks great 

 

John Pignatelli JR. posted:
Farmer_Bill posted:

Ha, I was watching this morning since I'm not feeling well enough to shovel the 6-10" that we got.  At that time it only looked like a couple inches on the ground at The Curve.

 

Same here in Fredericksburg, I looked at it this mornig and started cusing, however I calmed down and sent the wife to shovel it.

LOL John, my wife refused to let me out of the house to shovel and I didn't argue.  She went out by herself and was back inside within 10-15 minutes saying she hired someone -- a driveby who initially wanted $50 and she talked them down to $20. 

Looks like it's starting to accumulate up on Horseshoe Curve.

 

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Last night about 11 PM an east bound NS train lost its air on the Curve right past the park. Watched for a good hour while the conductor walked the train through the deep snow and cold. wa carrying a bright lantern, finally stopped at a freight car and waited. Tied down some brakes because it was on the hill. Never learned what caused the problem but finally headed for Altoona. Almost 500 watching. The guy earned his money on that trip. Good thing it was a  man crew. Real railroading.

I meant to write, "it was a god thing it was a 2 man crew" but  I really think a woman doing that-walking through deep snow, climbing up on the cars and setting he brakes would have been tough for a woman to handle. the Curve is the only camera I watch.  the terrain, weather, the MOW crews and the long freights climbing those grades are the best. A bunch of the other cameras are just IMs and oil trains blowing past the camera at 60mph. Or watching passengers get on and off Amtrak.

I thought the same and only watched the Curve cam...but the video of 2018 in review was pretty nicely done...especially at around 11:00 in when a steamer (Tweetsie 630 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, I think) and a Norfolk Southern freight pass each other and do the "Shave & a Haircut/Two bits" with their horn and whistle...kind of a wonderful nice nod to the past. 

I probably will still only watch the Curve cam, but there are some other neat locations. I just don't have all the time needed to watch them. 

Tom 

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