Newton, North Carolina — Asheville District
Norfolk Southern's Asheville District near the former Newton Depot site
Newton, North Carolina — Asheville District
Norfolk Southern Asheville District · Newton, North Carolina, United States
This operator has not granted Spotatrain permission to embed the feed, so we link to it instead.
Watch at The Southern RailfanStreamed by The Southern Railfan
Stream hosted by The Southern Railfan. Spotatrain links to the original feed and does not rebroadcast.
Where this camera films
Camera position: 35.67955, -81.21809
- Location
- Newton, North Carolina, United States
- Railroad
Norfolk Southern — Asheville District (MP 48-AS)
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
5reported to the FRA
Daytime
0
6 AM – 6 PM
Nighttime
5
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 2.5 h
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 729610B, 300 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 4 to 7.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track
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
The Southern Railfan's camera at Newton, North Carolina, on Norfolk Southern's Asheville District. The operator states: "Live stream from former Newton Depot site in Newton, North Carolina, just west of the 48-AS Milepost." Sponsored by the Southeast Rail Feed Association, with a companion scanner feed on Broadcastify.
This camera watches Norfolk Southern's Asheville District at Newton, North Carolina, near the site of the town's former Southern Railway depot, just west of Milepost 48-AS as stated by the operator. The Southern Railfan channel broadcasts the feed; the Southeast Rail Feed Association — a volunteer group that plans, installs and maintains scanner feed sites across the region — sponsors a companion radio scanner stream hosted about a mile from the camera.
The operator's own schedule lists one regular local movement past the camera: the P95 Oyama–Catawba turn, which runs Monday through Friday with an on-duty time of 6pm.
What to watch for
Norfolk Southern's P95 Oyama–Catawba local turn, which the operator lists as running Monday through Friday with an on-duty time of 6pm; general freight movements along the single-track Asheville District through Newton.
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
- September 24, 2026
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