Houston, Texas — Baer Junction PTZ
A PTZ camera where UP's Bell Line meets the Strang Subdivision, Houston
Houston, Texas — Baer Junction PTZ
Union Pacific -- Baer Jct, junction of the Bell Line Industrial Lead and Strang Subdivision · Houston, Texas, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 29.76499, -95.31679
- Location
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Bell Line Ind Ld
≈ MP 1.9 on the Bell Line Ind Ld — derived from FRA grade crossing 755646C, 130 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
What the stream’s operator says
"You will see BNSF and UP with an average of 20-30 Trains a Day!" -- operator 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
LIVE Trains' pan-tilt-zoom camera at Baer Junction (1000 Lockwood Drive) in Houston's Fifth Ward, where Union Pacific's Bell Line Industrial Lead meets the Strang Subdivision. The operator reports an average of 20-30 BNSF and Union Pacific trains a day.
Baer Jct is a Union Pacific junction in Houston's Fifth Ward where the Bell Line Industrial Lead meets the Strang Subdivision. LIVE Trains operates a pan-tilt-zoom camera at this location, one of several cameras the operator runs across the Houston terminal area alongside Tower 26, T&NO Junction and the Sampson Street cluster.
The view takes in a manually-operated switch with its target visible in the foreground, and a grade crossing with signals farther down the line; freight cars are visible at the edge of the frame.
LIVE Trains states viewers can expect an average of 20-30 BNSF and Union Pacific trains a day at this junction. The stream has run continuously since December 2022.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Junction
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Aimed by the operator
- Feed checked
- September 21, 2026
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