Fort Madison, Iowa — Riverview Park
A preserved Santa Fe steam locomotive stands watch as BNSF crosses the Mississippi swing bridge.
Fort Madison, Iowa — Riverview Park
BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision (MP 234.3, per operator) & BNSF Hannibal Subdivision · Fort Madison, Iowa, United States
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 40.63011, -91.31082
- Location
- Fort Madison, Iowa, United States
- Railroad
BNSF — BNSF Hannibal Subdivision (MP 234.3)
Weather & light at the camera
Sun times calculated for this camera’s coordinates.
Trains on this camera
Through trains per day
58reported to the FRA
Daytime
29
6 AM – 6 PM
≈ 1 every 25 min
Nighttime
29
6 PM – 6 AM
≈ 1 every 25 min
Reported by the railroad for FRA grade crossing 063244H, 220 m from this camera (FRA inventory, July 2026). An estimate, not a schedule — crossings on this line within 5 km report 4 to 58.
- Track at the crossing
- 3 main tracks · 25 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 Steel Highway Railcam looks over Riverview Park in Fort Madison, Iowa, where BNSF's Chillicothe and Hannibal Subdivisions meet at the Mississippi River. A retired Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 2913 is on static display in the park, with the river's historic swing bridge visible beyond the tracks.
Steel Highway Railcams operates this feed from Riverview Park in Fort Madison, Iowa, on the Mississippi River. The operator states the camera sits at Milepost 234.3 on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision, and that the view also takes in BNSF's Hannibal Subdivision, which follows the river through town.
BNSF freight uses both subdivisions, Union Pacific trains run over the Chillicothe Sub on trackage rights toward the Marceline Subdivision, and Amtrak's Southwest Chief calls at Fort Madison on the Chillicothe Sub. The park itself displays Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 2913, retired from Santa Fe service and presented to the city in 1960, with the river's landmark double-deck swing bridge visible behind it.
What to watch for
BNSF manifest, intermodal and grain trains on the Chillicothe and Hannibal Subdivisions, Union Pacific road power operating on trackage rights toward the Marceline Sub, and Amtrak's Southwest Chief on its Chicago–Los Angeles run. The camera's integrated scanner carries dispatcher and crew radio traffic on the AAR channels it monitors.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Grade crossing
- Traffic
- Freight & passenger
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- Feed checked
- September 21, 2026
Filmed location
The place this camera films is documented on Spotatrain — traffic levels, best angles, and visiting info (Spot):
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