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Wind turbine blade train in NW Ohio the other day

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Incredible train & incredible camera work by moderator on Virtual RailFan. Location is Deshler, OH, Henry County, in NW Ohio. Train is moving south from Toledo south to ???

This video was just posted earlier this evening on YouTube. Great promotional stuff.

FYI, as a rail fan, I spend hours each day watching the 2 cameras located in Deshler in what has been called the 'Crossroads of the Baltimore & Ohio RR). The single track the train is on is called the Toledo Subdivision, running N/S from Toledo to Cincinnati. The double tracks are to Chicago to the west & to the east on the opposite side of the 'diamond' crossings. About 50 trains pass through Deshler each day.

The scale of these turbine blades gives you a great feel for the scale of these wind turbines.
 
The hummingbird(s) flitting around the camera were fun to watch also! :)
 
Those things would be too wide to hall on the tracks that run on both east and west sides of the Mississippi River around here...
 
JacksinPA said:
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Incredible train & incredible camera work by moderator on Virtual RailFan. Location is Deshler, OH, Henry County, in NW Ohio. Train is moving south from Toledo south to ???

This video was just posted earlier this evening on YouTube. Great promotional stuff.

FYI, as a rail fan, I spend hours each day watching the 2 cameras located in Deshler in what has been called the 'Crossroads of the Baltimore & Ohio RR). The single track the train is on is called the Toledo Subdivision, running N/S from Toledo to Cincinnati. The double tracks are to Chicago to the west & to the east on the opposite side of the 'diamond' crossings. About 50 trains pass through Deshler each day.

The scale of these turbine blades gives you a great feel for the scale of these wind turbines.
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Those wind turbines must be much larger than the ones I saw parts for on oversized load trailers 5 years ago or so.

I mean those were probably only 60-80 feet long, whereas the ones on the train are much bigger.
 
JacksinPA said:
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Incredible train & incredible camera work by moderator on Virtual RailFan. Location is Deshler, OH, Henry County, in NW Ohio. Train is moving south from Toledo south to ???

This video was just posted earlier this evening on YouTube. Great promotional stuff.

FYI, as a rail fan, I spend hours each day watching the 2 cameras located in Deshler in what has been called the 'Crossroads of the Baltimore & Ohio RR). The single track the train is on is called the Toledo Subdivision, running N/S from Toledo to Cincinnati. The double tracks are to Chicago to the west & to the east on the opposite side of the 'diamond' crossings. About 50 trains pass through Deshler each day.

The scale of these turbine blades gives you a great feel for the scale of these wind turbines.
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Wind turbine setups are huge and remind that air actually has quite a bit of density to move those, although we can not sense any density to atmospheric air density, only air pressure with significant altitude change. Feeling wind, of course, is air density.

Think of the force of 100 wind and trying to stand against it? Impossible. But that also is what a car has to continuously fight against when going 100 mph. This is the reason the faster you go, the more fuel per mile you use.

Do you REALLY spend "hours a day" watching two remote train cameras? Watching for a train to come along? Have you figured out their travel time schedules to know when to watch the camera for it to go by?
 
joko104 said:
Wind turbine setups are huge and remind that air actually has quite a bit of density to move those, although we can not sense any density to atmospheric air density, only air pressure with significant altitude change. Feeling wind, of course, is air density.

Think of the force of 100 wind and trying to stand against it? Impossible. But that also is what a car has to continuously fight against when going 100 mph. This is the reason the faster you go, the more fuel per mile you use.

Do you REALLY spend "hours a day" watching two remote train cameras? Watching for a train to come along? Have you figured out their travel time schedules to know when to watch the camera for it to go by?
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Yes. The trains (50 or so of them per day) come randomly, as there is no schedule for freight trains. They run as needed. The camera pointed at the old B&O depot is fixed. The other cam has 360 deg pan, tilt & zoom. There are wye junctions there - 3 of them, tying the 3 subdivisions together. There is a yard to the south with old-style B&O color position light signals. It can get very busy. I once saw 3 trains come from different directions & 'meet,' a railroad term, with ballet-like precision. It beats watching paint dry because we also monitor the radio communications between the dispatchers & trains & have a moderated chat function.
 
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