How do I learn a freight trains schedule? (lemmy.world)

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I just moved and I live literally window to a freight train line, unfortunately it scares the crap out of my cats and so I'm trying to find out what the schedule is so that I can close the windows for them, and maybe put a little raspberry pi display screen saying something like "next train arriving in...." Next to my window

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hey coding nerds, I know you're nearby, do you think I'd be able to use tensorflow or something to identify an incoming train with this view?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You could, but if this is taken from another window in the same building you’ll likely only get ~10 seconds of warning.

If you could put a couple cameras a mile or so down each direction on the track you could get an earlier warning system

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is taken from my window, and I'm not sure how I feel about leaving expensive equipment out in a suburban area for anyone to pick up and run off with

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