Greeley, Colorado — UP Greeley Subdivision
Front Range freight outside a model railroad museum, and Big Boy once a year
Greeley, Colorado — UP Greeley Subdivision
Union Pacific — Greeley Subdivision (Denver–Cheyenne), milepost 51.6 · Greeley, Colorado, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 40.42214, -104.68828
- Location
- Greeley, Colorado, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Greeley Sub
≈ MP 51.7 on the Greeley Sub — derived from FRA grade crossing 804370B, 50 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
12reported to the FRA
Daytime
6
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 2 h
Nighttime
6
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 2 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 804370B, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 9 to 12.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 50 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"these cameras—a PTZ and a fixed unit—showcase about 12 daily freight trains" — Virtual Railfan stream description
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
Train types
On the line here
FRA / NTAD — crossing inventory Jul 21, 2026 · bridge inventory Oct 14, 2022 · rail yards (FRA / NTAD)
About this cam
Virtual Railfan's cameras sit outside the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley, looking at Union Pacific's Greeley Subdivision between Denver and Cheyenne. The operator counts about 12 daily freight trains at milepost 51.6, plus the annual visit of Big Boy 4014.
Virtual Railfan's Greeley cameras are positioned outside the Colorado Model Railroad Museum, looking at Union Pacific's Greeley Subdivision — the freight corridor linking Denver with Cheyenne, Wyoming, along Colorado's Front Range. The operator places them at milepost 51.6.
Traffic is modest by mainline standards and the operator is honest about it: about 12 daily freight trains, made up of manifests, a daily intermodal, a local, and occasional military moves. What lifts the location is the annual visit of Union Pacific 4014, the Big Boy, which passes on excursion.
Two cameras are published: a fixed unit facing south, free with chat, and a pan-tilt-zoom camera for Virtual Railfan members. The stream monitors 160.410 MHz (AAR 20), the Union Pacific road channel for the Greeley Subdivision.
The museum also runs a separate indoor stream of its model layout, which is a different feed on different hours — not this camera.
What to watch for
Twelve trains a day means patience, and the operator says so rather than overselling it. What you are waiting for is Union Pacific manifest and the one daily intermodal, with a local working during business hours and occasional military trains — an unusual category worth recognising. Once a year Big Boy 4014 comes through, which is the reason a lot of people bookmark this feed. The Front Range setting means the light changes dramatically through the day.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Cameras
- 2 cameras at this location
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 10, 2026
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