Re: Rail Cams

[Bob Gioia <alco@acay.com.au>]

I have access to the Old Maitland box as our model railway group has a lease
on the building. I'm sure they would be happy to allow a railcam to be
placed in or on the building. Now this raises the question who want's to pay
to have one installed?
Cheers
Bob

Iwi wrote:

> On 27 Dec 1998 21:07:22 +1000, Paul Hogan
> <pghogan@spam_nyet_bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >From a NSW perspective, the best place for a railcam would be on the
> >"four track" section between Maitland and Hanbury Jctn, possibly the
> >busiest non electrified route on the east coast. Securing the equipment
> >from the local vandals may be a problem!
> >
>
> The old Maitland signal box would be an excellent location. Looking
> back towards High Street station you would have XPTs, 620s,
> Endeavours/Explorers approaching Maitland station. NR freights and FC
> coalies approaching at 50 km/h. In the background in Maitland yard RSA
> stows a numbers of track machines as well as the rail grinder. At the
> loading bank occasionally a BBW is loaded with coal for 3801.
>
> Another possibility would be to broadcast radio transmissions to/from
> the new Maitland signal box over the net to complement the cam.
> Locally Maitland box is known as "Radio Australia - Broadcasting to
> the world!"
>
> Iwi