Roanoke Railcams

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Josh,

Thanks for your clear explanation.

Gordon Hamilton

On 7/14/2022 7:16 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>     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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