Gervais, Oregon — UP Brooklyn Subdivision
Union Pacific's Willamette Valley main, with the Coast Starlight passing
Gervais, Oregon — UP Brooklyn Subdivision
Union Pacific — Brooklyn Subdivision (Willamette Valley, Portland–Eugene) · Gervais, Oregon, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 45.10691, -122.89971
- Location
- Gervais, Oregon, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Brooklyn Sub
≈ MP 732.0 on the Brooklyn Sub — derived from FRA grade crossing 759620N, 110 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
15reported to the FRA
Daytime
8
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 1.5 h
Nighttime
7
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 1.5 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 759620N, 110 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 70 mph timetable speed
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 504, to SeattleDaily · changed Oct 4≈ 9:11 AMestimated from Salem, 22 km
- Train 503, to EugeneDaily · changed Oct 4≈ 12:03 PMestimated from Salem, 22 km
- Train 508, to SeattleDaily≈ 5:56 PMestimated from Salem, 22 km
- Train 507, to EugeneDaily≈ 7:03 PMestimated from Salem, 22 km
- Train 14, to SeattleDaily≈ 2:29 PMestimated from Salem, 22 km
- Train 11, to Los AngelesDaily · to Emeryville Oct 9≈ 3:17 PMestimated from Salem, 22 km
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated October 3, 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 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
Steel Highway Rail Cams watches Union Pacific's Brooklyn Subdivision at Gervais, Oregon, in the Willamette Valley between Portland and Eugene. Alongside UP freight, the operator's own on-screen caption names Amtrak's Coast Starlight and Cascades services.
Steel Highway Rail Cams runs this camera at Gervais, a small town in Oregon's Willamette Valley, on Union Pacific's Brooklyn Subdivision — the main line running south from Portland through Salem towards Eugene.
Unusually for this operator, the YouTube description carries almost nothing: no railroad, no host, no radio frequency. What identifies the location instead is the operator's own on-screen caption, which cycles through three lines burned into the video: "WELCOME TO GERVAIS, OREGON!", "UNION PACIFIC BROOKLYN SUB", and "AMTRAK COAST STARLIGHT & CASCADE SERVICE".
That last line matters: this is not a freight-only location. Amtrak's Coast Starlight, running Seattle to Los Angeles, and the Amtrak Cascades corridor service both use this route.
What to watch for
Union Pacific freight on the Brooklyn Sub is the day-to-day traffic, moving between Portland's Brooklyn Yard and the southern Willamette Valley. The scheduled highlights are Amtrak: the Coast Starlight on its Seattle to Los Angeles run, and Cascades corridor trains. Because the operator publishes so little in text, the on-screen caption is the reference — it names the subdivision and the passenger services directly in the picture.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Traffic
- Freight & passenger
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 6, 2026
Filmed location
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