Roanoke Railcams

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Two different entities providing the cameras. Hotel Roanoke provides the two nearest to them.  The cameras at VMT (pretty sure there is a static one along with the positional one) are provided by Virtual Railfan.  VR provides multiple cameras all over the country and is a subscription based service, thus the advertising. The advertising helps them fund repairs and equipment for their various cameras. They are the ones that control the VMT camera remotely (i believe they're based out of the Chattanooga area). If someone is at the controls when something interesting is happening,  like switching Coca-Cola, you'll often see the camera following the action at all their cameras.

Josh Blevins 
Charlotte NC 

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  On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 6:42 AM, NW Mailing List<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:   There are three great Roanoke railcams.  The two mounted on the walkway 
across the tracks at the Hotel Roanoke have a fixed field of view (one 
east and one west) and have no advertising, whereas the third one is 
mounted at the Virginia Museum of Transportation and has advertising 
before it pans and zooms.  I have two questions:

1. Why does the VMT video have advertising, whereas the Hotel Roanoke 
walkway cams open without advertising?

2. Is the panning and zoom of the VMT camera automatically, or is 
someone controlling those functions?  I watched a video from this camera 
as a crew switched the nearby Coca Cola plant, and the camera followed 
the switching moves so closely that it seems as though a human must have 
been controlling the camera even though it was after 5:00 PM when the 
VMT would have been closed for the day.

Gordon Hamilton


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