Barrett, Minnesota — CPKC Elbow Lake Subdivision

Barrett is a small town on CPKC's Elbow Lake Subdivision in west-central Minnesota, and the operator pins the location exactly: milepost 152.61. Two separate live streams cover it — a fixed camera and a pan-tilt-zoom camera — so the same train can be watched two ways.

The cameras are run by Northern Transcon Railcams, which broadcasts them on the Steel Highway Railcams channel. The installation is sponsored by The Prairie Wind Players Theatre in Barrett; the operator is explicit that the theatre sponsors the camera but is not responsible for the stream's content, and directs questions to Northern Transcon rather than to the sponsor.

The operator also publishes a running log of trains seen by the Barrett camera as a shared spreadsheet, which is unusual and useful if you want to know what a typical day looks like before you sit down to watch.