Belle Plaine, Iowa — Museum Camera
Union Pacific Clinton Sub freight through downtown Belle Plaine, near the Belle Plaine Area Museum
Belle Plaine, Iowa — Museum Camera
Union Pacific Clinton Subdivision · Belle Plaine, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 41.89612, -92.27436
- Location
- Belle Plaine, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
Union Pacific — Clinton Subdivision
≈ MP 116.4 on the Clinton Subdivision — derived from FRA grade crossing 190579V, 60 m away
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
37reported to the FRA
Daytime
19
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 38 min
Nighttime
18
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 40 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 190579V, 60 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 37 to 41.
- Track at the crossing
- 2 main tracks · 40 mph timetable speed
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 camera shows the Union Pacific Clinton Subdivision through downtown Belle Plaine, Iowa, with a preserved caboose on static display beside Main Street. Traffic is Union Pacific local and road freight trains; there is no scheduled passenger service.
Belle Plaine, Iowa sits on Union Pacific's Clinton Subdivision, a former Chicago & North Western main line that once saw more than fifty trains a day in the 1930s-40s. This camera, titled by the operator as the "Belle Plaine Museum" feed, looks across the line in downtown Belle Plaine near Main Street and 9th Avenue, where a preserved caboose sits on static display next to the tracks — consistent with the Belle Plaine Area Museum's railroad collection nearby.
Traffic today is Union Pacific local and road freight; there is no scheduled passenger service on this line.
What to watch for
Union Pacific local and road freight trains on the Clinton Subdivision through downtown Belle Plaine.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Railway museum
- Traffic
- Freight
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- September 21, 2026
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