Olympia-Lacey, Washington — BNSF Seattle Subdivision
A volunteer-staffed Amtrak station on the Seattle–Portland corridor
Olympia-Lacey, Washington — BNSF Seattle Subdivision
BNSF Railway — Seattle Subdivision, milepost 32.2 (Vancouver BC–Vancouver WA corridor); Union Pacific on trackage rights Portland–Tacoma · Lacey, Washington, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 46.99159, -122.79396
- Location
- Lacey, Washington, United States
- Railroad
BNSF, Union Pacific — Seattle
≈ MP 32.2 on the Seattle — derived from FRA grade crossing 982868K, 30 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
36reported to the FRA
Daytime
18
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 40 min
Nighttime
18
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 40 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 982868K, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 13 to 44.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track · 79 mph timetable speed
What the stream’s operator says
"About 45-55 trains daily can be viewed on the camera feed including 14 Amtrak station stops." — operator's YouTube description
Traffic as described by the stream’s operator. Spotatrain has not counted the trains itself.
Train types
Passenger trains past this camera
- Train 503, to EugeneDaily · to Portland Oct 48:31 AMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 500, to SeattleDaily8:40 AMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 505, to PortlandDaily10:14 AMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 502, to SeattleDaily10:25 AMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 504, to SeattleDaily · changed Oct 412:35 PMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 517, to PortlandDaily1:29 PMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 507, to EugeneDaily3:39 PMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 518, to VancouverDaily4:05 PMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 509, to PortlandDaily6:59 PMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 506, to SeattleDaily7:50 PMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 511, to PortlandDaily9:09 PMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 508, to SeattleDaily9:20 PMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 11, to Los AngelesDaily · to Emeryville Oct 911:22 AMarrives Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
- Train 14, to SeattleDaily6:01 PMdeparts Olympia-Lacey Amtrak Station
Tap a train for its times.
Scheduled times from Amtrak’s official timetable, updated October 3, 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
Centennial Station at Olympia-Lacey stands at milepost 32.2 of the BNSF Seattle Subdivision, and the camera looks straight along its platform. The Amtrak Depot Committee — the volunteer non-profit that owns the camera and staffs the station — counts "about 45-55 trains daily" past the lens, fourteen of them Amtrak stops.
Olympia-Lacey Centennial Station sits at milepost 32.2 on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Seattle Subdivision, the spine of the Pacific Northwest passenger corridor. The operator describes the traffic as "BNSF trains operating between Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Vancouver, Washington", with "trains coming out of Centralia headed north as well as Union Pacific trains operating on trackage rights between Portland, Oregon, and Tacoma, Washington".
What makes this camera unusual is who runs it. In the operator's own words, "This camera is owned and maintained by the Amtrak Depot Committee, a Non-Profit (501c3) organization of volunteers that actually staff the Olympia-Lacey Amtrak station." The committee was formed in 1987 to run a state-centennial fundraising drive that built the station, which opened in May 1993. Volunteers have met every passenger train since — including the late ones.
The station's own site records it as "the fourth busiest passenger train depot in Washington state", hosting "a record 82,519 passengers in 2025". The camera therefore watches a working, publicly staffed platform rather than a lineside pole.
What to watch for
Fourteen Amtrak trains stop here every day — Cascades runs between Vancouver BC and Eugene, plus the Coast Starlight on its Seattle–Los Angeles run. Between them, BNSF freight works the corridor in both directions and Union Pacific trains appear on trackage rights between Portland and Tacoma, so a UP unit on BNSF iron is routine rather than remarkable here.
The operator gives the total as "About 45-55 trains daily can be viewed on the camera feed including 14 Amtrak station stops" — meaning roughly three quarters of what passes is freight. Watch the platform itself as much as the track: volunteers meet each passenger train, so the station comes to life a few minutes before every Amtrak arrival.
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
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- August 13, 2026
Filmed location
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