Would you want a Live Webcam in your trainroom or at your club's layout?

No.

Enjoy privacy more each day.

My other concern would be home security, since you are showing everyone on the internet your stuff.   

Not just no but **** NO!

Enough internet security problems, potential burglary issues, whatever. I would never want a webcam at a club or home. I adore my privacy. 

yes already got 2 of them on my layout Gary.  

Though I greatly admire Eric's modeling abilities and charismatic personality, I find his voyeur-cam a bit creepy. In other words, No. I don't wish to be broadcasted 24/7 from home or anywhere else.

I have mixed feelings about security issues with live web cams.  A lot of people are doing it and I have not heard of any issues.

However, my wife has a tendency to interrupt my train activities ever now and then for a little together time.  A live web cam would definitely put a damper on that.  So, no I will not have one.

Ron

No.

My railroad nor my life is "The Truman Show."

Rusty

Personally I would not want one in my basement 24 hours a day. Not even sure I would want one every once-in-a-while, but would give that idea some further consideration. I'm kind of old fashioned and more private. I can't seem to adjust to things like this or Facebook or some of the other places like that. Younger folks these days have different views on all this stuff.

I do appreciate others doing it though. I think they would be nice at clubs, but maybe only when club members are there working or running trains. Eric Siegel's youtube videos are some of the best I have ever seen and I do look forward to watching his webcams. I did finally sign up for Facebook just to follow Eric, Lionel and MTH.

No, but I do understand and agree with the reasoning behind Eric's decision.

Absolutely, positively, no!  

Not a snowball's chance in ****.  For a club building, I might consider it like the NJ-HR club, but certainly not in my home!

No.

The San Diego 3 Railers club has 2 live webcams that are on during show hours. If I was to have them for a layout at my home, they would only be on when running trains or working on the layout. I'm not dead set against the idea, I just wouldn't leave them on 24 hours a day.

Update on Webcams

Would you want a Live Webcam in your trainroom or at your club's layout?

     I am still watching, Eric is adding a 4th camera, called Hallway Room Webcam 

Coming Soon.

Well said, John.

It's just another example of the unnecessary excesses that are so inherent with social media nowadays.    Not only would I not want 24x7 webcams in my home, I have absolutely no interest observing what's going on in other folks' homes either -- especially 24x7.  

Visiting in person when somebody hosts an open house is one thing, and dare I say very much "socially acceptable" -- at least as we've come to know it.  But 24x7 webcams in private homes borders on the ridiculous... no matter who you are or how well-intentioned  the concept may be.

Posting a video with your home layout as a backdrop is one thing.  Allowing unfettered 24x7 access to a portion of your residence?  No way.    But with each passing day, there are more and more things going on that I just "don't get".    Go figure.

David

My plan for the attic train room has always included a pan/tilt/zoom webcam. The box w/ power & Cat 5e is in the ceiling right now. Never intended it to be running 24/7. Published times make decent sense to me.

Gilly

I would never do 24/7, it would bore people to death, as most of the time there is no activity. Now when I get around to having operating sessions, I could see broadcasting that, or more likely tape and post to Youtube.

Here's a compromise:

How about an operating scale camera in a scene, showing the trains go by from a modeled perspective?  It could be like the trackside "railcams" that the foamers like.  (and, I guess, about as interesting ),

I don't know how many of you remember Greg's TrainYard but he was way ahead of his time.  I'm not sure how much of it is still active but you could turn on and off the lights, watch the cameras, including an in engine cam, and poke around a really cool site.