Calmar, Iowa — CPKC Mason City Subdivision
CPKC freights past the old Milwaukee Road depot in a Winneshiek County town
Calmar, Iowa — CPKC Mason City Subdivision
CPKC — Mason City Subdivision (former Milwaukee Road), at Maryville Street · Calmar, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 43.18386, -91.86469
- Location
- Calmar, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
CPKC — Mason City
≈ MP 42.2 on the Mason City — derived from FRA grade crossing 385237M, 40 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
4reported to the FRA
Daytime
2
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 6 h
Nighttime
2
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 6 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 385237M, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 40 mph timetable speed
Train types
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026
About this cam
Steel Highway Rail Cams watches the CPKC Mason City Subdivision at Maryville Street in Calmar, Iowa, from the town's former Milwaukee Road passenger depot. Everything that runs between Mason City and Marquette passes the lens, and the stream monitors AAR channel 84.
Steel Highway Rail Cams runs this camera on the CPKC Mason City Subdivision where it crosses Maryville Street in Calmar, Iowa, a small Winneshiek County town in the northeast corner of the state. The operator names the traffic plainly: Canadian Pacific trains working the Mason City Sub between Mason City and Marquette, Iowa.
The host is the City of Calmar itself, and the camera sits at the town's former Milwaukee Road passenger depot — a reminder that this line was Milwaukee Road territory long before the CP and then CPKC mergers. The operator points visitors to the town's own site for anyone planning to come and see it in person.
The stream monitors AAR channel 84 (161.370 MHz), so approaching movements are usually audible before they are visible.
What to watch for
This is a single-track prairie subdivision, so the pace is set by CPKC's Mason City to Marquette freights rather than by a constant parade. Watch for the grade crossing protection dropping at Maryville Street a minute or two ahead of a move, and listen on AAR 84 for the crew calling signals. CPKC's red-and-black repaints run alongside inherited Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern units, so motive power is worth watching in its own right. The former Milwaukee Road depot in the frame is the reason the city hosts the camera at all.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Historic depot
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 6, 2026
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