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Another day is about to begin as we get to the latter half of the week. Two simmering locomotives sit in front of the shop, soon one will be moving to the ash pit.



489 looks to be the locomotive of the day, as she arrives at the ash pit at 8:15am.



After 25 minutes and a good cleanout, 489 heads down for water.



489 now heads for the coal dock, and takes on a load of coal for the days run.

487 has come to the ash pit as 489 is now hooked up for today's 216.



216 is now in boarding position.

489 leads 216 out right on time, as they are departing the yard 487 returned from getting water and now back in front of the shop.

I enjoy all the video work that is done but I have an unrelated question. For both the forum and the web cameras are flash players being used ? I ask because they are talking about blocking these flash formats in the future and i don't want to loose these sites. I hope this is not confusing I'm not a computer geek and I just want to be clear about this.


Thanks Paul

This time tomorrow, 1445 MDT, I will be chasing 215 back to Chama. Will try to wave at the north cam.

I lost power for about 3 hours this afternoon, so no 215 coverage - but when I got back up and running I see some switching is underway.



Spreader OU heading into the swamp now.

They putting the OU in the swamp? I would think that the tank cars at the Gramps rack need to be moved since that is one of the projects for E.

Here's 216 Departure Video



The only part of switching I really got to see -- looks like the tank car was put at the front of the string of cars by the oil rack. The two MOW color cars on the inside track, then the flat and the spreader OU were put into the swamp. Looks like there is a gondola in the spot where OU was kept since the last work session.

Paul Nielson wrote:I enjoy all the video work that is done but I have an unrelated question. For both the forum and the web cameras are flash players being used ? I ask because they are talking about blocking these flash formats in the future and i don't want to loose these sites. I hope this is not confusing I'm not a computer geek and I just want to be clear about this.


Thanks Paul

For the webcams I do believe flash is required, but it is not for the forum -- as far as I know. I've also read about flash will be going away some day, but I wouldn't worry about losing the sites -- technologies change, and I'm sure that whatever would be needed on the site page would be taken care of. I think most times it's the browsers that cause issues, last year there was a period of time that both Firefox and Chrome blocked the use of flash -- some security vulnerability.

Sharon Evans wrote:This time tomorrow, 1445 MDT, I will be chasing 215 back to Chama. Will try to wave at the north cam.

Sounds like a terrible afternoon plan!! Enjoy - hope the weather holds nice and sunny for the chase!

Larry Sullivan wrote:

Paul Nielson wrote:I enjoy all the video work that is done but I have an unrelated question. For both the forum and the web cameras are flash players being used ? I ask because they are talking about blocking these flash formats in the future and i don't want to loose these sites. I hope this is not confusing I'm not a computer geek and I just want to be clear about this.


Thanks Paul

For the webcams I do believe flash is required, but it is not for the forum -- as far as I know. I've also read about flash will be going away some day, but I wouldn't worry about losing the sites -- technologies change, and I'm sure that whatever would be needed on the site page would be taken care of. I think most times it's the browsers that cause issues, last year there was a period of time that both Firefox and Chrome blocked the use of flash -- some security vulnerability.

Indeed, flash support in Firefox is supposed to be greatly reduced sometime in August, next couple of weeks. I've switched over to Chrome as my browser for this site as they appear to be rather more flexible.