Jonesborough, Tennessee — NS Knoxville East District
A relocated 19th-century depot on the old Southern Railway A-Line
Jonesborough, Tennessee — NS Knoxville East District
Norfolk Southern — Knoxville East District (the A-Line), former Southern Railway main line Lynchburg–Chattanooga via Bristol · Jonesborough, Tennessee, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 36.29146, -82.47673
- Location
- Jonesborough, Tennessee, United States
- Railroad
Norfolk Southern — Bristol Line
≈ MP 33.0 on the Bristol Line — derived from FRA grade crossing 731210H, 120 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
9reported to the FRA
Daytime
4
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 3 h
Nighttime
5
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 2.5 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 731210H, 120 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 60 mph timetable speed
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 at Jonesborough sit at the historic Chuckey Depot Museum, overlooking Norfolk Southern's Knoxville East District — the former Southern Railway main line between Lynchburg, Virginia and Chattanooga by way of Bristol. The depot was moved from Chuckey and restored by the Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society.
Virtual Railfan's Jonesborough cameras are located at the historic Chuckey Depot Museum, looking out on Norfolk Southern's Knoxville East District — known to railfans as the A-Line, and to history as the Southern Railway main line between Lynchburg, Virginia and Chattanooga, Tennessee via Bristol.
The depot itself has a story: it originally stood at Chuckey, Tennessee, and was relocated and restored as a museum by the Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society & Museum in partnership with the City of Jonesborough.
Two cameras are published. The east-facing camera, free and carrying the chat, looks towards Roanoke, Virginia; a west-facing camera pointing at Knoxville is reserved for Virtual Railfan members. Two Norfolk Southern road channels are monitored, 160.950 MHz (AAR 56) and 160.245 MHz (AAR 09), and two Broadcastify feeds cover the A-Line.
What to watch for
The A-Line is a Norfolk Southern through route across the Appalachian grain of east Tennessee — intermodal and manifest, with the operator noting the cameras face opposite ends of the corridor so you can tell direction at a glance: east towards Roanoke, west towards Knoxville. The relocated Chuckey depot in the frame is the reason the location exists, and the operator explicitly invites viewers to come and see Jonesborough, Tennessee's oldest town, in person.
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
- Cameras
- 2 cameras at this location
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 10, 2026
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