Phillipsburg, New Jersey — PU Tower, NS Lehigh Line
A PTZ camera at PU Tower on Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Line
Phillipsburg, New Jersey — PU Tower, NS Lehigh Line
Norfolk Southern — Lehigh Line at PU Tower, Phillipsburg · Phillipsburg, New Jersey, United States
This operator has not granted Spotatrain permission to embed the feed, so we link to it instead.
Watch at PU Tower (@putower)Streamed by PU Tower (@putower)
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 40.68812, -75.19829
- Location
- Phillipsburg, New Jersey, United States
- Railroad
Norfolk Southern — Lehigh Line
≈ MP 76.4 on the Lehigh Line — derived from FRA grade crossing 961033P, 20 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
22reported to the FRA
Daytime
12
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 60 min
Nighttime
10
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 72 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 961033P, at this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 20 to 23.
- Track at the crossing
- 1 main track
What the stream’s operator says
"This section of mainline sees approximately 25 trains per day." — PU Tower stream 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
A pan-tilt-zoom camera at PU Tower, on Norfolk Southern's Lehigh Line at Phillipsburg, New Jersey — about 76 miles west of New York City and the New Jersey ports, in the operator's own words.
What to watch for
Norfolk Southern freight on a busy corridor feeding the New Jersey ports. The camera is a PTZ, so the view moves; the operator also runs a scanner feed.
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 9, 2026
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