8/3/18 Friday last day for session F

[Sharon Evans]

Morning preparations:

2018-08-03 Its a rainy morning in Chama as 484 comes out from the house.jpg (102.4 KiB) Viewed 3054 times

2018-08-03 The 484 moves over the pit for its cleaning.jpg (94.67 KiB) Viewed 3054 times

2018-08-03 Its on to the tank to get water and wash coal.jpg (104.48 KiB) Viewed 3052 times

2018-08-03 The 484 backs toward the coal dock lead.jpg (106.05 KiB) Viewed 3052 times

2018-08-03 The 484 comes past the working Friends crews.jpg (102.29 KiB) Viewed 3052 times

2018-08-03 The loader is adding coal to the bunker of 484.jpg (106.87 KiB) Viewed 3052 times

2018-08-03 The hostlers are finished with thier prep of 484 and it now waits for the road crew.jpg (116.87 KiB) Viewed 3017 times

2018-08-03 The 484 has shoved the extra coach onto the train making for 8 cars.jpg (104.69 KiB) Viewed 3017 times

[Sharon Evans]

Departure of train 216:

2018-08-03 Train 216 is now ready for loading.jpg (100.04 KiB) Viewed 3017 times

2018-08-03 The parlor Colorado is in its normal loading position.jpg (75.01 KiB) Viewed 3017 times

Foxfire also has frozen. All 3 cams froze at 9:54 MDT which means we do not have the departure of train 216. At a loss now as to what is happening since we have tried Edge, which is the worst, Chrome, which was periodic freezes, and now Foxfire, which has frozen yesterday and today. Luckily yesterday was after departure. Note from time stamps on grabs, the freeze was 90 minutes after I started the recording with Bandicam.




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[Sharon Evans]

Arrival of train 215:

2018-08-03 Train 215 is at the pass, though all we see is the speeder.jpg (99.73 KiB) Viewed 3011 times

2018-08-03 The 488 brings a 7 car train 215 into Chama.jpg (105.78 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

2018-08-03 The 488 comes by the tank as the train enters the yard.jpg (105.72 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

2018-08-03 The 488 comes up to the tipple.jpg (104.55 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

There are a number of passengers still in the open gon as the train passes the tipple

2018-08-03 The parlor New Mexico is on the markers.jpg (119.8 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

2018-08-03 Only one cleaner is waiting as the train approaches.jpg (82.38 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

2018-08-03 The train is almost stopped.jpg (79.43 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

2018-08-03 ...and is stopped.jpg (78.31 KiB) Viewed 3000 times

In the parlance of a car, they were running on fumes.

2018-08-03 Its hard to see, but the white dot in the tender bunker is someone shovling the coal forward because there was hardly any left when the 488 came into the yard.jpg (96 KiB) Viewed 2998 times

[Sharon Evans]

Shot of the tender of 488

2018-08-03 Looking down into the tender of 488 we cannot see any coal.jpg (90.24 KiB) Viewed 2984 times

Makes me wonder, since the locomotives used to come into Chama with close to half a load of coal, are they now running round trip on what is put in at Chama before the cycle begins?

[Pete Dahlberg]

Regarding freezes, since all 3 browsers have frozen at some point could it be the bandicam software which is causing the problem? Perhaps memory cache?

[Bruce McDowell]

I'm also questioning the browser choice as I'm quite sure there was at least one day in the last week or two when Sharon reported a freeze and I watched the departure live. And, actually, other than a 15-second pause yesterday afternoon, I haven't observed many freezes at all recently. I use Chrome exclusively for the webcams. I do find that I need to clear the "cached images and files" regularly if I want to see the DoT cameras refreshing properly (when they don't just plain freeze for a day or three).

[Sharon Evans]

Its hard to say since I am using a feed that does not have any time limit in it. Since I need Bandicam to record the stills and video it hard to say how to go. Saturday everything was fine no failing of the recording. If really is a random thing these freezes.