Cheektowaga, New York — Thruway Plaza
CSX freight rolls through the Thruway Plaza corridor, 24 hours a day
Cheektowaga, New York — Thruway Plaza
CSX Buffalo Terminal Subdivision · Cheektowaga, New York, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 42.90118, -78.77764
- Location
- Cheektowaga, New York, United States
- Railroad
CSX — Buffalo Terminal Subdivision (Buffalo Terminal)
≈ MP 434 on the Buffalo Terminal Subdivision (Buffalo Terminal) — derived from FRA grade crossing 937004T, 320 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
46reported to the FRA
Daytime
22
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 33 min
Nighttime
24
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 30 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 520061B, 540 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 21 to 55.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 79 mph timetable speed
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 280, to New YorkDaily · changed Nov 8≈ 4:39 AMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 284, to New YorkDaily≈ 7:33 AMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 281, to Niagara FallsDaily≈ 6:41 PMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 283, to Niagara FallsDaily≈ 9:28 PMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 449, to ChicagoDaily · changed Nov 8≈ 12:42 AMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 49, to ChicagoDaily · changed Nov 8≈ 12:42 AMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 448, to BostonDaily · changed Nov 8≈ 8:50 AMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 48, to New YorkDaily · changed Nov 8≈ 8:50 AMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 64, to New YorkDaily≈ 12:32 PMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
- Train 63, to TorontoDaily≈ 3:23 PMestimated from Buffalo Depew Station, 4.2 km
Tap a train for its times.
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated November 8, 2026 — trains often run late. Estimated times are worked out along the line from the nearest scheduled stop.
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · bridge inventory Oct 14, 2022 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
A CSX freight train rolls past the Thruway Plaza shopping center in Cheektowaga, New York, on this camera watching the Buffalo Terminal Subdivision around the clock.
This camera looks out from near Thruway Plaza in Cheektowaga, New York, a Buffalo suburb, onto CSX's Buffalo Terminal Subdivision — the freight and Amtrak corridor that threads through Buffalo's rail network between Lancaster and Hamburg, New York.
The feed is run by an independent railfan under the channel name Track Watch, who streams it around the clock as a freight and city-sounds camera. Expect a steady mix of CSX road freight and local switching movements passing near Harlem Road, close to the shopping plaza that lends the camera its name.
Cheektowaga sits just east of Buffalo proper, and this stretch of track connects the city's rail yards to the wider CSX network heading toward Lancaster, Depew and points east.
What to watch for
CSX road freight and local switcher moves through the Cheektowaga rail corridor, framed against the road and greenery bordering Thruway Plaza. The wide-angle view also catches passing road traffic and ambient city sound, part of the channel's appeal.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Classification yard
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- September 24, 2026
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