Favorite Web Cams

[UniBrier]

What are your favorite or most visited web cams?

Where do you go to check out where you'd rather be?

I'm currently tracking the snow melt at Stevens Pass and psyching up for one more weekend of skiing at Alpental.

On the boring but useful side, I often check Seattle Traffic before heading out of the office.

Just found out there is a Rochelle Train Cam (registration required). Keeping an eye out for Yoopers.


Keep it family friendly...

[GhettoSmurf]

There are some neat webcams on this internet of ours; but not many are family apropriate, so I wont link it.

[yoopers]

Originally Posted by UniBrier

Just found out there is a Rochelle Train Cam (registration required). Keeping an eye out for Yoopers.

Yep. The train park is a pretty big thing here. People come from all across the country to visit the home of one of the very few double-diamond crossings in the U.S. It's a very nice atmosphere and I like to stop by from time to time. But personally, I don't see the need to oogle at or photograph freight locomotives over and over again. There are some folks who will actually camp out in their cars at the park for days on end just to watch trains.

The City of Rochelle just purchased the train park gift shop and will be making it even nicer. If you come for a visit, don't forget to give me a call to let me know you're in town. We're in the phone book. By the way, registration at the website is free and not a big thing.

One of the unique things at the park is the emphasis on hobo history. It's pretty neat history to learn.

I've been on the cam before. I stood in front of it, called Mary on the cell phone and had her bring up the page to see me. It was fun for the moment. The cam is looking west at the Del Monte plant.

Bruce

Edit: Oh, one more thing. A year and a half ago, Union Pacific opened up one of the largest intermodal facilities around. We used to have 100 or so trains go through Rochelle per day, now I think it's increased, as has the container truck traffic. The biggest problem is that now trains don't just go through the town, they tend to get stopped or backed up. It can get pretty frustrating at times. Fortunately, we have at least one overpass to tie the north and south sides of town together.