. . . in Cape Town, South Africa.
It may be night time, as that darkness condition tends to happen every 12 hours around the world, but check this site out now and again to see steam, diesel and switching activity live.
. . . in Cape Town, South Africa.
It may be night time, as that darkness condition tends to happen every 12 hours around the world, but check this site out now and again to see steam, diesel and switching activity live.
Cool.
Do any MRs out there set up some srt of cam on an engine? I wonder if they can be small enough for that. It would be really ultra cool to see a conductor's eye view of model layouts.
Tim Marshall skriver:
Yes
I have seen tonnes of that.... :-)
We have tried it on our layout, but the metal masts for the overhead wire is disturbing the 2,4GHz signal to the reciver.
Fleischmann has made "camerawaggons", some years ago, but only in low resolution and only in black and white.
Klaus
I made a DVD using an old F unit. I cut away the area behind the fireman's front windshield and mounted a 'train cam' (Micro Mark). If you go to
The camera gets confused by florescent lights and the sound came through as a buzz from them as well. That is why there is no cab sound.
Not a locomotive cam, but some years back there was the "International Model Railroad" or some such that would allow someone to view the model railroad via the web browser, and allow certain simple train controls to be sent in via www.
The MIT Model railroad club has a few videos shot from the cab at:
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