Roanoke, Virginia — Hotel Roanoke, East Camera
Norfolk Southern's Roanoke tracks and Amtrak's station, seen from The Hotel Roanoke — east view
Roanoke, Virginia — Hotel Roanoke, East Camera
Norfolk Southern · Roanoke, Virginia, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 37.27366, -79.93946
- Location
- Roanoke, Virginia, United States
- Railroad
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
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
This live feed looks east from The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center over Norfolk Southern's tracks and the Roanoke Amtrak station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia — the companion view to a matching west-facing camera at the same hotel.
This live feed looks east from The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center over Norfolk Southern's tracks and the Roanoke Amtrak station platform in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. The Hotel Roanoke was founded and built by the railroad in 1882, and today connects visitors to the O. Winston Link Museum, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and the Norfolk and Western Historical Society, all nearby in the historic Norfolk & Western passenger station and rail corridor.
This East camera is paired with a separate West-facing camera at the same hotel, published on Spotatrain as its own record (Roanoke, Virginia — Hotel Roanoke, West Camera). Together the two feeds cover downtown Roanoke's rail corridor from the hotel's vantage point above the tracks.
The hotel also offers a "Train Lover's Package," with accommodations overlooking the railroad, breakfast for two, a commemorative history mug, and tickets to the O. Winston Link Museum and the Virginia Museum of Transportation.
What to watch for
Watch for Norfolk Southern freight moves through the yard below and Amtrak equipment at the Roanoke station platform. Because this is the East camera, movements approaching from the Blue Ridge grade side of the corridor are easiest to catch here, while the paired West camera covers the opposite direction.
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
- September 24, 2026
Filmed locations
The places this camera films are documented on Spotatrain — traffic levels, best angles, and visiting info:
- Roanoke (Railwalk) →Spot
- Virginia Museum of Transportation →Experience
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