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The Empire Builder train of yesteryear in HO scale
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Post by FNS on Jun 23, 2021 1:20:11 GMT -8
There's a great ferry cam to watch on YouTube. This is at the Southampton dock run by the Red Funnel Line with service to The Isle of Wight.
These have an overheight main vehicle deck, an upper deck for cars, main cabin deck, an upper cabin deck with a prom, and a sun deck. These run at about 12 knots and make the crossing in about an hour.
This ferry fleet also has truck ferry capable of handling about a dozen trucks and a "passenger" capacity of 12 (drivers).
I've seen drop trailer service on this cam. Red Funnel tractors pull the trailers on and off the ferries and leave them alone on the deck and the dock, just like Seaspan ferries do.
You'll sometimes see big cruise ships arriving and departing on this cam as well.
Oh, yes! The British drive on the wrong side of the roads there!!
ENJOY!
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Post by Kahloke on Jun 25, 2021 11:43:10 GMT -8
There's a great ferry cam to watch on YouTube. This is at the Southampton dock run by the Red Funnel Line with service to The Isle of Wight. These have an overheight main vehicle deck, an upper deck for cars, main cabin deck, an upper cabin deck with a prom, and a sun deck. These run at about 12 knots and make the crossing in about an hour. This ferry fleet also has truck ferry capable of handling about a dozen trucks and a "passenger" capacity of 12 (drivers). I've seen drop trailer service on this cam. Red Funnel tractors pull the trailers on and off the ferries and leave them alone on the deck and the dock, just like Seaspan ferries do. You'll sometimes see big cruise ships arriving and departing on this cam as well. Thanks for posting this link. I just watched the unloading and loading process, including the drop trailer service. I was wondering why it was taking so long for them to start loading the main vehicle deck when passenger cars had been boarding on the upper ramp for some time, then the tractor tug went on board and came out with a trailer about a minute or so later. After that, they started loading the main deck - quite fascinating to watch, actually. Those boats don't look all that big, but they carry around 220 vehicles. The lot was full when they started boarding, but it looks like they got nearly everyone on at the time I was watching it. Fun stuff. If I ever get back to the UK, I may have to take a trip out to the Isle of Wight. |
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Post by paulvanb on Jun 28, 2021 19:34:10 GMT -8
I have being watching a little of this, but I cannot get their website to work. It would be fun to watch them at work.
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Post by FNS on Jun 29, 2021 1:58:48 GMT -8
I have being watching a little of this, but I cannot get their website to work. It would be fun to watch them at work. I've been watching this on my big screen TV using YouTube on ROKU with my high speed WIFI in my house. I think you can plug in an ethernet cable into ROKU. Some more recent TVs have internet with YouTube. It's more fun to watch this kind of activity on a larger screen! Besides this, the many Virtual Railfan YouTube channels showing urban and wooded scenery with train action. My favorite is the one in Skykomish. Another great site is at the Martha's Vineyard ferry terminal showing passenger and vehicle activities as well as the coming and going of the ferries there. I'll replicate these links on its respective thread on a later date after this thread gets enough exposure and viewings. TERMINALHAVEN AND THE OCEAN |
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Post by paulvanb on Jun 29, 2021 6:33:17 GMT -8
I wanted to know the sailing times so I could tune in at the right time. The ones you posted look interesting.
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Post by Kahloke on Jun 29, 2021 6:59:55 GMT -8
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Post by paulvanb on Jun 30, 2021 16:40:29 GMT -8
The link didn't work, but thank you anyway. I wonder if they block by country IP address? However, I have enjoyed watching the activity when a ferry is in port. Quite fascinating! |
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