Johnstown, Pennsylvania — NS Pittsburgh Line
Milepost 275 on the old Pennsylvania Railroad main, about 40 trains a day
Johnstown, Pennsylvania — NS Pittsburgh Line
Norfolk Southern — Pittsburgh Line (former Pennsylvania Railroad main line), milepost 275 · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 40.32992, -78.92179
- Location
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Railroad
Norfolk Southern — Pittsburgh Line
≈ MP 275 on the Pittsburgh Line — derived from FRA grade crossing 961192W, 320 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
41reported to the FRA
Daytime
20
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 36 min
Nighttime
21
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 34 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 961192W, 320 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 41 to 81.
- Track at the crossing
- 3 main tracks · 55 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"this location sees roughly 40 trains per day" — Virtual Railfan stream description
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 42, to New YorkDaily9:02 AMarrives Johnstown Amtrak Station
- Train 43, to PittsburghDaily6:14 PMdeparts Johnstown Amtrak Station
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated September 24, 2026 — trains often run late.
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 at Johnstown sit at milepost 275 on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line, the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line. The operator counts roughly 40 trains a day, including Amtrak's twice-daily Pennsylvanian, which stops at the historic Johnstown station.
Virtual Railfan's Johnstown cameras are hosted by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association in partnership with Vision Together 2025, at milepost 275 on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line — the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line over the Alleghenies.
The operator counts roughly 40 trains a day here. Amtrak's Pennsylvanian passes twice daily and actually stops, at the historic Johnstown station (station code JST), so this is one of the few Virtual Railfan locations where you watch a passenger train board rather than merely pass.
Two cameras are published: a public static camera holding a fixed vantage of the main line, and a members-only pan-tilt-zoom camera offering sweeping views towards Pittsburgh. Three channels are monitored — Norfolk Southern Road on 160.800 (AAR 46), the Allegheny dispatcher on 160.485 (AAR 24), and Amtrak Road on 160.920 (AAR 54) — and the operator links three separate radio feeds covering Altoona, the Allegheny dispatcher and the Cresson west slope.
What to watch for
This is the Pittsburgh Line, so what passes is the full weight of Norfolk Southern's Allegheny crossing: intermodal, manifest, coal, and helper sets. Johnstown sits below the west slope, and the Allegheny dispatcher channel tells you what is working the grade above. Amtrak's Pennsylvanian stops twice a day at the 1916-era station. The Johnstown Area Heritage Association hosts the cameras, and the town's flood history is inseparable from the railroad that runs through it.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Passenger station
- Traffic
- Freight & passenger
- 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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